(Sunday, September 24th At 11 AM, Hybrid Worship: In-Person and Live-Streamed On Zoom)

Scripture: Jonah 3:1-5, 10 and 4:1-11 and Matthew 20:1-16

Sermon: It’s Not Fair by Pastor Mark Harper

“What you do in the Lord is not in vain.” -N.T. Wright

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(Sunday, September 17th At 11 AM, Hybrid Worship: In-Person and Live-Streamed On Zoom)

Scripture: Romans 14:1-12 and Matthew 18:21-35

Sermon: A Hard Road to Freedom by Pastor Mark Harper

“The great temptation is to cling in anger to our enemies and then define ourselves as being offended and wounded by them. Forgiveness, therefore, liberates not only the other but also us. It is the way to the freedom of the children of God.” -Henri Nouwen

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(Sunday, September 10th At 11 AM, Hybrid Worship: In-Person and Live-Streamed On Zoom)

Scripture: Romans 13:8-12 and Matthew 18:15-20

Sermon: All God’s People (Dang it!) by Pastor Mark Harper

“We repeat, there is nothing we can do but love, and dear God – please enlarge our hearts to love each other, to love our neighbor, to love our enemy as well as our friend.” -Dorothy Day

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(Sunday, September 3rd At 10 AM, Hybrid Worship: In-Person and Live-Streamed On Zoom)

Scripture: Romans 12:9-21 and Matthew 16:21-25

Sermon: When the Enemy is Us by Pastor Mark Harper

“God’s absolute power is identical with absolute self-giving.” - Hans Urs von Balthasar

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(Sunday, August 27th At 10 AM, Hybrid Worship: In-Person and Live-Streamed On Zoom)

Scripture: Romans 12:1-8 and Revelations 5:11-14

Sermon: Congregational Hymn Sing from the “Glory of God” Hymnal

“I don’t have a clue what kinds of sounds moles, voles, or earthworms make, but according to Revelation they’re in the choir too – ‘every creature in heaven and on earth and under the earth and in the sea ….’ Is a weeping willow a creature? How about a mountain, or river? I guess it depends on your definition. If a creature is anything made by God, the sky is the limit. Stars, oceans, willows, lava rocks: they’re all in the choir. They all get to sing, the same way the hills sing in the Psalms, while the trees of the field clap their hands.” - Barbara Brown Taylor, “Every Singing Creature”

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(Sunday, August 20th At 10 AM, Hybrid Worship: In-Person and Live-Streamed On Zoom)

Scripture: Isaiah 56:1,6-8 and Matthew 15:21-28

Sermon: The God of Boundary Crossers by Pastor Mark Harper

“…distinctions (among people) all reveal the unlimited beauty of One who is the source of each of us, so this rich diversity is the very holy ground where God speaks. Bigotry doesn’t happen when we notice other people’s differences.

It happens when we believe or act as if those differences make another less worthy of love or opportunity or compassion or respect.

We need to learn to dance together.” - John Pavlovitz, A Bigger Table

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(Sunday, August 13th At 10 AM, Hybrid Worship: In-Person and Live-Streamed On Zoom)

Scripture: Romans 10:5-13 and Matthew 14:22-33

Sermon: The Church of the Busted Boat by Pastor Mark Harper

“God bless the busted boat that brings us back.”

-Jason Isbell, “New South Wales”

(Sunday, August 6th At 10 AM, Hybrid Worship: In-Person and Live-Streamed On Zoom)

Scripture: Psalm 145 v. 8-9 and v. 14-18 and Matthew 14; 13-21

Sermon: Tale of Two Banquets by Pastor Mark Harper

And so new life was born in the dark of that pit of hell. And so the midwife died before dawn, still bathed in blood. Let us be midwives! Let us be midwives! Even if we lay down our own lives to do so.”

--Sadako Kurihara, Let Us Be Midwives! An Untold Story of the Atomic Bombing”