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Sunday Mar 12, 2023
Sunday Mar 12, 2023
The question of Jesus we consider today is one that is most important for any person who has ever been torn down by criticism and condemnation of others: “Where are your accusers?” It’s the simplest of the questions Jesus asked, but the conditions surrounding it are anything but.
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Sunday Mar 05, 2023
Sunday Mar 05, 2023
During this season of Lent we are considering some of the questions Jesus asks. Today’s question is taken from this challenging text we just heard: “For if you love only those who love you, what reward do you have?” (CEV)
This is a question of compassion. I would suppose that compassion for most of us makes us think of acts of mercy like caring for someone who is sick. But the heart of the word compassion is, obviously, passion. Passion comes from a Latin word that means suffer. That is why we talk about the passion of Jesus, it means the suffering of Jesus. Therefore compassion means “to suffer with.” That can mean a couple of things: sharing someone else’s suffering, or putting up with someone who causes us suffering.
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Sunday Feb 26, 2023
Sunday Feb 26, 2023
This is the question we consider today in our series for this Lenten season, The Questions Jesus Asks. Jesus asked over 300 questions in the Gospel. Even more than parables, Jesus used questions as a teaching tool. He understood that the lessons that stick with us are not the ones handed to us. They are brought out of us, and good questions draw out the best lessons. So what might Jesus want to draw out of us by asking, “What do you call me Lord and do not do what I tell you?”
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Thursday Feb 23, 2023
Thursday Feb 23, 2023
Lent is meant to be a spiritually transformative period. We remember Jesus’ suffering and death, but more than remember, we do things that help up us enter into his own passion, his very life, so that we can better experience His risen life on Easter. To help us this Lent we will consider Questions Jesus Asks.
You may not realize just how many questions Jesus asked in the Gospels. In fact, let’s take a little poll to see what you think. How many would say Jesus asked around 20 questions? 50 questions? 100? 300? The last group would be right. Actually Jesus asked more than 300 questions in the Gospels. As much as parables were an important teaching method of Jesus, so were asking questions.
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Sunday Feb 19, 2023
Sunday Feb 19, 2023
We conclude today a series on relationships called Tug of War recognizing, as Pastor Jevon has pointed out the last couple weeks, that relationships involve give and take, tension like in a tug of war. And healthy relationships understand that not every battle should be won. But somewhere along the way, we have to change the analogy. Somewhere we need to move from being in a tug of war and come together on the same side.
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Thursday Feb 16, 2023
Thursday Feb 16, 2023
We continue on in our relationship series Tug of war today as we look closer into how we deal with the constant pull in our relationships. Even healthy relationships come with a constant back and forth. How we handle this often determines the quality of our relationships. The hard part is that in the game of Tug of War is that someone inevitably wins and someone loses. And today is a reminder that you don’t have to win every battle. Listen in for more.
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Sunday Feb 05, 2023
Sunday Feb 05, 2023
Tug of war describes the natural and evidential pull of opposing forces that exist when people or groups of people are in relationship. It’s the constant pulling of gives and takes. This sermon series we are talking about relationships - not just romantic relationships, but relationships with your friends, your children, your parents, your people, your community. This week, Pastor Jevon talks about how you can’t control how other people respond or pull in a relationship. You can only control how healthy you show up. Listen in for more.
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Tuesday Jan 31, 2023
Tuesday Jan 31, 2023
What Jesus talks about in the scripture today, and what this whole series on faith and doubt has been leading up to; Jesus talks about home, and grief, and what we really believe in.
Jesus prepares the disciples for his own death and departure. That’s what’s going on in John 14. And he talks about this in terms of home. He says, “In my Father’s House there are many dwelling places,” or rooms. He talks about his relationship with God as being like a home, and it is something he invites the disciples into. He told them, “I go to prepare a place for you so that where I am you may be also, and you know the way to the place where I am going.” Think about what Jesus is saying here. “You are never forgotten. Someone is always looking for you.” Listen as Pastor Rob talks not about religion but about faith.
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Saturday Jan 28, 2023
Saturday Jan 28, 2023
Only doubt can save the world. We often talk about the power of faith, but we don’t talk about the power of doubt. And who better to help us consider the power of doubt than the disciple Thomas. He is known to us today as Doubting Thomas, which gives the impression that he is not a paragon of faith, that he is somehow the poster-child of un-faith. But that could not be further from the truth. Listen as Pastor Rob dives deep into doubt and faith.
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Sunday Jan 15, 2023
Sunday Jan 15, 2023
Today Pastor Rob talks about religion's hidden need (spoiler alert: it's doubt!). Listen as he explores this sensitive subject and addresses leaving the church because of doubts instead of facing the challenge head on.
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Sunday Jan 08, 2023
Sunday Jan 08, 2023
Today we start and new series called Faith & Doubt where we will explore different angles of doubt and the positive role doubt can play in our faith. The message title this Sunday is "The Believing Side of Faith" and we will consider the story told in Mark 9:14-29. This passage tells of a father who brought his son to be healed by Jesus and ends up making one of the most powerful statements in the New Testament, "I believe, help my unbelief." We will unpack this declaration and think about the powerful implications of it.
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Sunday Dec 18, 2022
Sunday Dec 18, 2022
Each year Pastor Rob does two dramatic monologues. Listen today as he portrays King Herod.
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Sunday Dec 11, 2022
Sunday Dec 11, 2022
This week Pastor Rob continues our Advent series "Glory" and he talks about the weight of glory and how glory is something God brings to us, and this makes a most important point about glory. Glory is something given not gotten.
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Sunday Dec 04, 2022
Sunday Dec 04, 2022
Listen as Pastor Rob talks about finding glory in the hard places in life. How sometimes what we need is not peace, but glory.
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Sunday Nov 27, 2022
Sunday Nov 27, 2022
When was the first time you learned that certain aspects about Christmas were up for debate? But do you remember how old you were? Do you remember who told you or how you found out? Maybe it wasn’t around Christmas, but maybe it was involving something else. How did you feel when you found out that something that certain things didn’t add up. Did it feel like a disappointment or let down? How did it effect you? I mean, let’s face it we've all been there? Listen as Pastor Jevon talks about GLORY and how important it is to know who has the keys to your faith, your heart, and your home.
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Tuesday Nov 22, 2022
Tuesday Nov 22, 2022
Ever prayed a thanksgiving prayer? Sometimes we come at Thanksgiving through the back door. Our thanksgiving is not always about feeling abundantly blessed or full. Sometimes it comes out of hardship or challenge. Interestingly that latter condition has motivated people to give thanks more than any other.
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Sunday Nov 13, 2022
Sunday Nov 13, 2022
In many ways, our series the last few weeks has been like solving a Rubik’s Cube. We’ve looked at the three loves Jesus identifies in the two great commandments, Love God with all your heart, soul, and might; and Love your neighbor as yourself. Love of God, Love of Others and Love of Self are like three dimensions that support life.
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Sunday Nov 06, 2022
Sunday Nov 06, 2022
What makes a person a saint? I dare say most of us disqualify ourselves from that status, yet all the people we recognized in this service this morning would probably have been equally uncomfortable with such a title. But the qualities of genuine sainthood are not perfection, self-righteousness, superb biblical or theological knowledge. It is the way the love of God is reflected in our living.
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Sunday Oct 30, 2022
Sunday Oct 30, 2022
Because Jesus was in the form of God, he became a servant.
What’s my point? Serving is God’s nature. And Paul says it is our nature too. We are made to be compassionate, caring, and giving. We are most alive when we find a way to make a positive difference in the world. Parker Palmer reminds us that the word vocation comes from the Latin word for “listen.” We find our vocation, our calling in life, when we listen to who God made us to be, and we allow our lives to be used to bless others.
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Sunday Oct 23, 2022
Sunday Oct 23, 2022
We begin today a stewardship series, which often in church translates into raising money, which is an unfortunate mischaracterization. Steward is one of the most important words in the Bible that describes our primary identity as human beings. The word steward means manager. God calls us to manage all that God gives us.
We see this in the first chapter of the Bible…“So God created human beings…blessed them, and said, “Have many children, so that your descendants will live all over the earth and bring it under their control. I am putting you in charge…” (Genesis 1:27-28 GNT) This doesn’t mean we can run the earth the way we want. It means we are given the responsibility to manage creation the way God wants. We are called to steward everything God gives us.
But here’s the paradox about stewardship. You don’t have to be a person of faith to be a steward. Regardless of our faith or lack of faith in God, we all have resources in life to manage. We have our bodies, our souls, our minds, our relationships, our possessions, our potential, and more. Whatever we think about God, we are managing what we have. We make decisions everyday about the way we want to manage and use what we are given in this life. And the way we manage our resources says everything about what we value and believe about life.
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