Preacher: Randall Westfall Scripture: Synthesis of Matthew 4:1-11; Mark 1:12-13; Luke 4:1-13 (Hart, NASB, NET) By day four the hunger pangs subsided. And in their place another kind of hunger emerged. I’d been in this secluded Pacific northwest wilderness for half a week with nothing but the clothes on my back and the knowledge and…
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Now I Know
Preacher: Chris Bowman Scripture: 1 Kings 17 The last two years have been something for the history books. Inflation, insurrection, plagues of locusts, global pandemic, now a war in Europe. How is it that people of faith are to survive such a time as this? Sometimes it’s hard to know. It’s hard to imagine surviving…
Embodying, Knowing, Proclaiming
Nehemiah in the Liturgy from a book of hours
Bring Forth
Preacher: Nolan McBride Scripture: Ephesians 6:10-20 I confess to almighty God and to you my siblings in Christ that I have not historically been a big fan of today’s reading from Ephesians. I was raised in a devout Church of the Brethren family that took our peace tradition seriously. My mother’s father and stepfather both…
But Have Not Love
“Heart of the World” by Mikhail Reva, Odessa Children’s Hospital
Odessa, Ukraine
Faith Lives in You
Ethiopian Icon: Arrival of the Magi
The Word: The Verb: The Creative Energy
Holy Family
Date: 1973
Artist: Hofheinz-Döring, Margret
Bright, Shining Wonder
Preacher: Jennifer Hosler Scripture: Luke 2:1-20 For those of us in the northern hemisphere, December is marked by short days and long nights. It is an adjustment for everyone, that first troubling transition out of daylight savings time when it just seems so very dark, so very early. I find those first few weeks quite…
Shines Forth (Enthroned Upon the Cherubim)
Preacher: Nathan Hosler Scriptures: Micah 5: 2-5a, Psalm 80: 1-7, & Luke 1: 39-55 “In those days Mary set out and went with haste to a Judean town in the hill country, where she entered the house of Zechariah and greeted Elizabeth. When Elizabeth heard Mary’s greeting, the child leaped in her womb. And Elizabeth was filled…
Makes me Feel Some Kinda Way
Preacher: Jessie Houff Scriptures: Zephaniah 3: 14-20 & Luke 3:7-18 A little bit more frost on the grass each morning. Breathtaking, fiery red leaves cascade to the ground with every steady breeze. Winter is near. Winter is the death that makes way for a new spring. A necessary death. A beautiful one. Sounds like Jesus. …
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