(Sunday, February 23rd At 11 AM, Hybrid Worship: In-Person and Live-Streamed On Zoom)

Scripture: Genesis 32:22-29 and Luke 6:27-38

Sermon: Counter(intuitive) Punch by Rev. Mark Harper

“To love our enemy is impossible. The moment we understand our enemy, we feel compassion towards him or her, and he or she is no longer our enemy.” -Thich Nhat Hanh

Photo by Ivan Pergasi on Unsplash

(Sunday, February 9th At 11 AM, Hybrid Worship: In-Person and Live-Streamed On Zoom)

Scripture: Isaiah 6:1-13 and Luke 5:1-11

Sermon: Going After the Big Fish by Rev. Mark Harper

“I am so tired of waiting
Aren’t you,
For the world to become good
And beautiful and kind?
Let us take a knife
And cut the world in two –
And see what worms are eating
At the rind.” -Langston Hughes

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(Sunday, February 2, At 11 AM, Hybrid Communion Worship: In-Person and Live-Streamed On Zoom)

Scripture: Jeremiah 1:4-10 and Luke 4:21-30

Sermon: Exorcising Jesus by Pastor Mark Harper

“The worth of an individual does not lie in the measure of [their] intellect, [their] racial origin, or [their] social position. Human worth lies in relatedness to God.” -Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. , Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community?

(Sunday, January 12th At 11 AM, Hybrid Worship: In-Person and Live-Streamed On Zoom)

Scripture: Isaiah 43:1-7 and Luke 3:21-22

Sermon: The Direction is Down by Pastor Mark Harper

“There is something in every one of you that waits and listens for the sound of the genuine in yourself. It is the only true guide you will ever have. And if you cannot hear it, you will all spend all of your life, spend your days on the ends of strings that somebody else pulls.” - Howard Thurman

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(Sunday, January 5At 11 AM, Hybrid Communion Worship: In-Person and Live-Streamed On Zoom)

Scripture: Isaiah 60:1-6 and Matthew 2:1-12

Sermon: Re-Routing by Pastor Mark Harper

“We cannot attain the presence of God.  We’re already totally in the presence of God. What’s absent is awareness.” -Richard Rohr

(Sunday, December 29th At 11 AM, Hybrid Worship: In-Person and Live-Streamed On Zoom)

Scripture: Psalms 31:13-16;62:5-8 and Matthew 8:23-27

Sermon: A Case for Resistance by Rev. John Seaman

Close to you I waken in the dead of night,
And start with fear – are you lost to me once more?
Is it always vainly that I seek you, you, my past
I stretch my hands out, and I pray – and a new thing now I hear:
“The past will come to you once more,
and be your life’s enduring part,
through thanks and repentance.
Feel in the past God’s deliverance and goodness,
Pray him to keep you today and tomorrow.”
-Dietrich Bonhoeffer, written in Tegel Prison, 1944