Sunday, November 1
The notes for this service do not record enough to say what was preached; a title and a date are all that is carried here.
Sunday, October 25
The notes for this service carry no sermon content, only the date and the order of worship, so there is no message to summarize or passages to list.
Sunday, October 18
Stewardship season opens with a call to walk forward as a church, step by step, at the pace of God's love rather than by shortcuts, trusting that God already knows the future he is leading us into.
Sunday, October 11
God gives his people a vision for where he is taking them and the capacity to see it, and each generation is asked to pray for that picture and organize its life around it rather than around its own dreams for the church.
Sunday, October 4
On World Communion Sunday, the sermon holds up the table as the place where a congregation discovers it belongs to a body far larger than itself, and that we genuinely need believers from other cultures to see what God is doing.
Sunday, September 27
Jesus turns the lawyer's question about who counts as a neighbor back on him, showing that a neighbor is not someone nearby but someone you choose to go near, and that the person who does it is the one you would least expect.
Sunday, September 20
The sermon is not available in the notes provided, so there is no message to summarize or passages to list.
Sunday, September 13
The sermon is about the difference between a crowd of people in the same room and real community, the fellowship God gives as a gift and then asks us to share with others. It says the church learns to love one another inside its own life and offers that same welcome to the lonely people around it.
Sunday, September 6
God makes an unbreakable promise to be our God, and Joshua and Paul both call God's people to keep renewing their side of it. Joshua gathers Israel at Shechem to re-up their commitment, and Jesus gives the cup of the new covenant so the church keeps remembering and re-committing.
Sunday, August 30
The tenth commandment against coveting closes the series as a promise, not a scold: God gives a life together that we can receive with gratitude instead of scraping for what belongs to our neighbor.
Sunday, August 23
The ninth commandment is not just about lying under oath: the words we say about other people put them on trial, and God gives us speech to build up the community of faith rather than to tear it down.