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Weekend Worship - April 25-26, 2020
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Meditation: Pastor Alyssa
Text: Luke 24:13-35 (read by Didier Ahimera)
Music: Kelly Curtin, Kevin Biggins, Lon Schreiber & Philip Hawkins
Children's Moment: Pastor Kelly
Contemplative Prayer Practice: Pastor Julie
Breathing Out, Breathing In - April 19, 2020
Meditation (Pastor Julie): Breathing Out, Breathing In
Texts: John 20:19-22 (Pastor Joel); Psalm 23 (Rosemary Plovnick)
Music: The Suggs family
Easter Worship Via Zoom - April 12, 2020
Message: Stronger Than Death Texts: 1 Corinthians 13, John 20:1-18 (Readers: Abigail Adigun & Aurelio Dominguez) Testimony: Katie Stewart Music: Lon Schreiber & Chancel Choir
Palm Sunday Communion Service Via Zoom April 5, 2020
PALM SUNDAY WORSHIP - April 5, 2020 11am (via Zoom) Message: Love and Lament; Scripture Texts: Luke 19:37-44; Zechariah 9:9-10 Communion: Please br...
Palm Sunday Communion Service
Remember Jesus' triumphal entry into Jerusalem and his last meal with his friends in the upper room.
Planting Gardens During a Pandemic - March 29, 2020 ( zoom.us webinar )
Message by Pastor Julie: Planting Gardens During a Pandemic Text: Jeremiah 29:4-14 Additional Texts: Psalm 46 (read by 13 people by video); John 11:17-27 Whe...
Facebook Live Worship March 22, 2020 Alyssa Aldape
Christ Encounters: An Observant “Other” - March 15, 2020
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“The hardest spiritual work in the world is to love the neighbor as the self—to encounter another human being not as someone you can use, change, fix, help, save, enroll, convince or control, but simply as someone who can spring you from the prison of yourself, if you will allow it.”
~ Barbara Brown Taylor (An Altar in the World)
Christ Encounters: A Surreptitious Seeker - March 8, 2020
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There is a voice inside me that urges caution.
It tells me to be careful, to keep my head,
not to go too far, not to burn my boats.
I don't want to be carried away with any resolution
which I shall afterward regret,
for I know I shall be feeling quite different after breakfast.
This is my endless recurrent temptation—
to go down to that sea, which is God,
and there neither to dive nor swim nor float,
but only to dabble and splash,
careful not to get out of my depth, and to hold onto
the lifeline that connects me with my temporal things—
the lifeline that proves to be my deathline."
~ C. S. Lewis (The Weight of Glory)
Christ Encounters: The Wilderness - March 1, 2020
One day you finally knew
what you had to do, and
began,
though the voices around you
kept shouting
their bad advice—
though the whole house
began to tremble
and you felt the old tug
at your ankles…
~ Mary Oliver, “The Journey”
Ash Wednesday - Pain and Healing - February 26, 2020
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O Lord, who hast mercy upon all, take away from me my sins, and mercifully kindle in me the fire of thy Holy Spirit. Take away from me the heart of stone, and give me a heart of flesh, a heart to love and adore Thee, a heart to delight in Thee, to follow and enjoy Thee, for Christ's sake, Amen
~ St. Ambrose of Milan (AD 339-397)
Get Up and Do Not Be Afraid - February 23, 2020
Even with us something like that happens once in a while. The face of a man walking his child in the park, of a woman picking peas in the garden, of sometimes even the unlikeliest person listening to a concert, say, or standing barefoot in the sand watching the waves roll in, or just having a beer at a Saturday baseball game in July. Every once and so often, something so touching, so incandescent, so alive transfigures the human face that it's almost beyond bearing.
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~ Frederich Beuchner
Good News: God Isn’t Fair - February 16, 2020
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Gracious God,
In your loving heart there
is room for everyone—
without exception.
Give us courage to be so
at home in you that we
dare make room for others.
Let your world be a place
of delight and homecoming
for all creation.
~ Congregational prayer, Grace Cathedral, San Francisco
Going Public - February 9, 2020
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“Do not think you must speak the truth to a Christian but can lie to a ‘pagan.’ You are speaking to your brother or sister, born like you from Adam and Eve: realize all the people you meet are your neighbors even before they are Christians; you have no idea how God sees them. The ones you mock for worshiping stones … may worship God more fervently than you who laughed at them…You cannot see into the future, so let every one be your neighbor.”
~ Augustine of Hippo (354-430)
The Crazy Farmer - February 2, 2020
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“Many churches sing the hymn, ‘There’s a Wideness in God’s Mercy,’ but the church is not always generous in dispensing it. God does not dole out mercy like cookies only for good, repentant children. God’s mercy is not conditioned by our response. God is mercy. So, wide is wider than we guess.”
~ David Buttrick
Half-Baked - January 26, 2020
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“Every time you close another door—be it the door of immediate satisfaction, the door of distracting entertainment, the door of busyness, the door of guilt and worry, or the door of self-rejection—you commit yourself to go deeper into your heart and thus deeper into the heart of God. This is a movement toward full incarnation. It leads you to become what you already are—a child of God; it lets you embody more and more the truth of your being; it makes you claim the God within you.”
~ Henri J. M. Nouwen (1932-1996)
One in Christ Jesus - January 19, 2020
Bruce Salmon
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“Let us move now from the practical how to the theoretical why: Why should we love our enemies? The first reason is fairly obvious. Returning hate for hate multiplies hate, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars. Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that. Hate multiplies hate, violence multiplies violence, and toughness multiplies toughness in a descending spiral of destruction. So when Jesus says, ‘love your enemies,’ he is setting forth a profound and ultimately inescapable admonition. Have we not come to such an impasse in the modern world that we must love our enemies—or else? The chain reaction of evil—hate begetting hate, wars producing more wars—must be broken, or we shall be plunged into the dark abyss of annihilation.”
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
“Loving Your Enemies” sermon, 12/25/57
God’s Gentle Justice - January 12, 2020
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As swimmers dare to lie face to the sky and water bears them, as hawks rest upon air and air sustains them, so would I learn to attain freefall, and float into Creator Spirit's deep embrace, knowing no effort earns that all-surrounding grace.
~ Denise Levertov
“The Avowal”
The Beginning - January 5, 2020
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“God did not just start talking to us with the Bible or the church or the prophets…The radiance of the Divine Presence has been glowing and expanding since the beginning of time, before there were any human eyes to see or know about it.”
~ Richard Rohr
The Messiah Standing in Solidarity - December 29, 2019
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