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Sunday Mar 20, 2022
Sunday Mar 20, 2022
This week, Pastor Nicole explains how sharing the love of Jesus can change how not only God sees us, but how we see the miracles He makes in our lives. How, Faith is a filter that changes the way we see the world and even the way that we see Jesus. Depending on our angle, our soul settings the saturation of faith and the light of Christ that filters through our lives- we literally see the world and even Jesus differently.
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Sunday Mar 13, 2022
Sunday Mar 13, 2022
Have you ever been turned off with Jesus? If so, why? Was it the way you experienced Jesus through people who said they followed him? Was it the judgment you felt? Narrowness? A feeling that being associated with Jesus made you a less critical thinker, a self-righteous person, or someone who had to believe things you don’t believe? Listen to Pastor Rob as he dives deep into how faith changes your willingness to pray for others.
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Tuesday Mar 08, 2022
Tuesday Mar 08, 2022
Our series this Lent is called Faith Changes Everything. Lent is a good season to give attention to our faith. It is a time for Christians to reflect on the meaning of Jesus’ suffering and death and deepening and renewing our connection to God.
But you don’t have to be Christian, of course, to have faith. You don’t even have to believe in God to have faith.
Sunday Mar 06, 2022
Sunday Mar 06, 2022
In this first Sunday in our Lenten series, Faith Changes Everything, Pastor Rob talks about how faith is determined by what you seek. If your highest need is comfort and satisfaction faith might always seem a bit illusive, or perhaps thin. But if you seek a connection to God that can weather difficult times, then you will discover a faith that changes everything.
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Sunday Feb 27, 2022
Sunday Feb 27, 2022
Pastor Jevon finishes the Indispensable Relationships series today talking about the need for a "ride-or-die" relationship in our life. How God shows us His presence in our lives through people, and how these people are in your corner, win, lose, or draw. Listen in and think about who fills this role in your life - or are you the friend to follow and be someone's ride-or-die.
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Sunday Feb 20, 2022
Sunday Feb 20, 2022
Pastor Mindie Moore continues our series called Indispensable: relationships we simply cannot live without. And this theme is perfect for this week, when you and you and you and you and, according to market research, 145 million Americans gave Valentine’s Day cards to people they find indispensable.
But you know, of all the types of cards that were given this week- to the husband, wife, partner, galentine or friend- you may not find one written for the relationship that we’re exploring today. Because today, we’re going to talk about “the challenger”.
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Sunday Feb 13, 2022
Sunday Feb 13, 2022
We all need encouragers, but this week we go in the opposite direction, literally. We think about our need for people who are opposite our gifts and traits.
Our scripture story today does not describe a romantic context. It doesn’t even talk about a family relationship or friendship. It is about relationships in a church context, but it brings out this point about the need for differing, and even opposing, relationships in our lives, and the potential for challenge that brings.
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Sunday Feb 06, 2022
Sunday Feb 06, 2022
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Tuesday Feb 01, 2022
Tuesday Feb 01, 2022
Today's sermon is called Double Vision, because this is going to be a year of looking ahead at the big vision peaks toward which we believe God is calling St. Luke’s to scale, while at the same time focusing on the present steps of ministry in front of us.
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Sunday Jan 23, 2022
Sunday Jan 23, 2022
Last week Pastor Rob has talked about how this church reminds us our mission to welcome all. Using stories from the church in Normandy with medics who treated Germans as well as allied soldiers along with civilians. Those bloodstains most likely come from all the people treated. The church is to welcome all to know the hope and truth of Jesus Christ.
Today, as we get ready for the presentation of our long range vision next Sunday, we consider one final metaphor for the mission of the church: taking risks.
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Sunday Jan 16, 2022
Sunday Jan 16, 2022
Pastor Rob continues in this series, Our Unwritten Story as he talks about "A Church That Welcomes All" and the parable in Matthew that reminds us that anyone is invited. The good and the bad are accepted. Because what Jesus is describing in this parable is the church. He’s giving us a picture of what the church is meant to be, a place where all are welcome.
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Monday Jan 10, 2022
Monday Jan 10, 2022
Pastor Rob primes the pump and invites us to spend a few weeks thinking about the purpose of the church, not just St. Luke’s, but THE church. What is the mission of the church today? Do we even need the church? Given the increasing numbers of people disconnecting from organized religion that seems a relevant question. With the shifts in popular attitudes about church and questions about how our world will be different because of this pandemic, what does this mean for the future of the Church? Join him for the first in this series: A Church That Heals.
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Sunday Jan 02, 2022
Sunday Jan 02, 2022
Rev. Mindie Moore is preaching on Martha and Mary and what it looks like to have a renewed sense of faith heading into the new year.
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Sunday Jan 02, 2022
Sunday Jan 02, 2022
This Sunday, Rev. Kevin Davis steps into the pulpit and talks about what gifts we bring to Jesus and how do we know when we've given enough. Join us.
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Monday Dec 20, 2021
Monday Dec 20, 2021
This Sunday Pastor Rob presented a monologue titled Saving Joachim (though the first part will really be a dialogue with a special guest)! The monologue is based on the father of Mary, a non-biblical character, but one who is identified in apocryphal literature-writings of the same time period as biblical books but not included as Holy Scripture. In this case, the story of Mary's parents, Joachim and Anna (for whom there is a church dedicated in her name in Jerusalem built over the site where their house was believed to be) is told in the apocryphal Gospel of James. You can access that writing here. The stories about Joachim and Anna are told in the first three chapters.
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Sunday Dec 12, 2021
Sunday Dec 12, 2021
Children really make the Christmas story. Literally.
It starts with the baby Jesus, which is kind of amazing if you think about the way the world viewed children in that time. Listen as Pastor Rob reminds us of why Jesus came to the world as a baby and this is often how we find hope for ourselves, that look beyond, we look ahead, we act now in ways that will bless those far beyond the horizon we see and experience the miracle of Christmas to bring a light that never dims.
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Sunday Dec 05, 2021
Sunday Dec 05, 2021
It might not be all that appealing, but wouldn’t it be refreshing to write a Christmas letter that’s honest? It can be hard to wish people a Merry Christmas when we are living in a Messy Christmas. Christmas, of all times, is when we want the messes of the world to go away, if only for a few weeks. Cover the trees and shrubs in twinkling lights. Deck the house with garland. Play Christmas music.
What if God wants to meet you in that place to use that in some way that can bring light and hope to other people. Light that can redeem pain is a light that never dims.
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Monday Nov 29, 2021
Monday Nov 29, 2021
Today we start a new sermon series called, The Light that never dims. In this series we are going to look at the story of Advent through a missional lens. Here is the question we are trying to answer, “In what ways does Christ’s presence in the world inspire us to look outward in order to be the hope, peace, joy and love for others? This will be different for some of us because society places us in the mind frame of being receivers during this time. What can we get? How can we be blessed? But maybe the story of Christ coming into the world has practical implications on we live out our faith for others. And today we are highlighting our continued commitment to our neighbors in work with Afghan relief.
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Sunday Nov 21, 2021
Sunday Nov 21, 2021
Often at Thanksgiving we are sanctioned to be grateful as if the feeling of gratitude is created by our determination. Just be thankful! But what if gratitude sometimes comes as a surprise, something we don’t generate? What if it’s more serendipitous, like happiness, something we find not because we set out for it, or made it our object, but simply because we are open to experiences that leave us thankful and actually help us?
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Sunday Nov 14, 2021
Sunday Nov 14, 2021
We’ve been looking at Paul’s discussion of giving with the Corinthians, noting that Paul is trying to inspire the Corinthians to return to taking a collection for the poor in Jerusalem. And we’ve noted several points Paul has made in these chapters:
- Generosity involves everything we have. Its not just our money. Stewardship
involves all God gives us which God can use to better the world.
- God is the source of our blessings. Everything we have comes from God. We are
just temporary renters.
- Generosity is contagious. Others get inspired by generous people
- When we live generously, life is generous to us.
- Generosity should come from a desire, not guilt.
- God doesn’t expect us to do more than we can.
- Generosity gets to the heart of spiritual maturity. That’s why we called this series
For Mature Audiences. Paul’s main concern was helping people mature in their faith, which meant becoming like Christ, which meant being people of grace.
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