(Sunday, January 12th At 11 AM, Hybrid Worship: In-Person and Live-Streamed On Zoom)

Scripture: Isaiah 43:1-7 and Luke 3:21-22

Sermon: The Direction is Down by Pastor Mark Harper

“There is something in every one of you that waits and listens for the sound of the genuine in yourself. It is the only true guide you will ever have. And if you cannot hear it, you will all spend all of your life, spend your days on the ends of strings that somebody else pulls.” - Howard Thurman

Photo by 愚木混株 cdd20 on Unsplash

(Sunday, January 5At 11 AM, Hybrid Communion Worship: In-Person and Live-Streamed On Zoom)

Scripture: Isaiah 60:1-6 and Matthew 2:1-12

Sermon: Re-Routing by Pastor Mark Harper

“We cannot attain the presence of God.  We’re already totally in the presence of God. What’s absent is awareness.” -Richard Rohr

(Sunday, December 29th At 11 AM, Hybrid Worship: In-Person and Live-Streamed On Zoom)

Scripture: Psalms 31:13-16;62:5-8 and Matthew 8:23-27

Sermon: A Case for Resistance by Rev. John Seaman

Close to you I waken in the dead of night,
And start with fear – are you lost to me once more?
Is it always vainly that I seek you, you, my past
I stretch my hands out, and I pray – and a new thing now I hear:
“The past will come to you once more,
and be your life’s enduring part,
through thanks and repentance.
Feel in the past God’s deliverance and goodness,
Pray him to keep you today and tomorrow.”
-Dietrich Bonhoeffer, written in Tegel Prison, 1944 

(Sunday, December 22nd At 11 AM, Hybrid Worship: In-Person and Live-Streamed On Zoom)

Scripture: Micah 5:2-5a and Luke 1:39-55

Sermon: Expanding the Family by Pastor Mark Harper

“Knit us together, God. We are so complex, but you are good for making us complex. Knit us together, O God, knit us together. Where and when we have been ripped apart, pick up the threads of our souls and knit us together. Knit us together in the womb of our Mother.” - Idelette McVicker, from a prayer inspired by the 139^th Psalm

(Sunday, December 15th At 11 AM, Hybrid Worship: In-Person and Live-Streamed On Zoom)

Scripture: Philippians 4:4-7 and Luke 3:7-20

Sermon: An Intervention by Pastor Mark Harper

“Dear Child of God, you are loved with a love that nothing can shake, a love that loved you long before you were created, a love that will be there long after everything has disappeared. You are precious, with a preciousness that is totally quite immeasurable. Filled with life and goodness and laughter – and joy.” - Desmond Tutu, The Book of Joy

(Sunday, December 8th At 11 AM, Hybrid Worship: In-Person and Live-Streamed On Zoom)

Scripture: Malachi 3:1-4, John 1:1-14, and Matthew 1:18-22

Sermon: Advent Choral Worship by the TPPC Choir and Friends, directed by Dr. James Bingham

“We are in a world pregnant with hope, and we live in the expectation of the coming of God’s kingdom on earth. As we wait, we also work, cry, pray, ache; we are the midwives of another world.” - Shane Claiborne

(Sunday, December 1st At 11 AM, Hybrid Communion Worship: In-Person and Live-Streamed On Zoom)

Scripture: Jeremiah 33:14-16 and Luke 21:25-36

Sermon: Heads Up by Pastor Mark Harper

“Among the poor, among the proud, among the persecuted, among the privileged, Christ is coming; He is coming to make all things new.” - from an Advent Litany of the Iona Community