Good morning and welcome! This week’s message is part four of our beatitudes series, and Pastor John is preaching on Matthew 5:6 “blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they will be filled” (NRSV). Righteousness is one of those words that tends to lose its impact after the 40th, 50th, or 100th …
Good morning and welcome! Today, Pastor John is continuing in his series on the beatitudes. This week’s message is focusing on the third of these: “blessed are the meek, for they will inherit the earth” (Matthew 5:5, NRSV). As we worship together this morning, Pastor John is going to be breaking down some of the …
“Who has believed what we have heard? And to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed? For he grew up before him like a young plant, and like a root out of dry ground; he had no form or majesty that we should look at him, nothing in his appearance that we should …
Good morning, Church! Our message today is the first in Johns series on the beatitudes and we will be discussing the first of these: “Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven” (Matthew 5:3, NRSV). As John will talk about, poverty of spirit is a strange thing to wrap our …
“Then God spoke all these words: I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery; you shall have no other gods before me. You shall not make for yourself an idol, whether in the form of anything that is in heaven above, or …
Good morning, Church! This week John is preaching on Character and the opportunities we have to build a God-like character in the midst of a pandemic and other challenging times. In his sermon, John asks us if we truly want to become more like Christ, and while our first reaction is likely to say “of …
Good morning, and welcome! Hopefully you all got the memo that this week our “doing something different” is doing church – the gathering – as a zoom meeting where we gather, talk, and enjoy community together as the Church – the body of Christ. If you’re reading this post before Sunday at 10am, don’t forget …
Church, when Jesus Christ began his ministry – or, officially began his ministry – he was doing a new thing. Christ called to people who were otherwise not going to be called on to preach the word of God, and he went places that religious leaders otherwise would have never gone. As we lean into …
Good morning, or good afternoon, or good evening! Sometimes it still feels strange that I can open up my computer and attend church whenever works best for me – last week I listened to the sermon while going for a drive on the beautiful, sunny, Sunday afternoon. Though the pandemic has changed so many things …
Hello everyone and welcome! This week we are rejoining our series on the Ten Commandments and John is bringing us one of his previously recorded sermons as we near the end of this series. Our message today is on commandment number 9: thou shall not lie. Now, as we enter into this topic I think …