(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

(Sunday, November 24th At 11 AM, Hybrid Worship: In-Person and Live-Streamed On Zoom)

Scripture: Daniel 7:1a,9-10,13-14 and John 18:33-37

Sermon: Tell the Truth and Shame the Devil  by Pastor Mark Harper

“ ‘Aslan is a lion – the Lion, the great Lion.’
‘Ooh’ said Susan. ‘I’d thought he was a man. Is he-quite safe? I shall feel rather nervous about meeting a lion.’ …
‘Safe?’ said Mr. Beaver … ‘Who said anything about safe? ‘Course he isn’t safe. But he’s good. He’s the King, I tell you.”-C.S. Lewis, The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe

Photo by Paul Zoetemeijer on Unsplash

(Sunday, November 17th At 11 AM, Hybrid Worship: In-Person and Live-Streamed On Zoom)

Scripture: Isaiah 58:6-12 and John 18:19-23

Sermon: A New Gospel by the Rev. Dr. Gayle Fisher-Stewart

“Many suggestions/And documents written/ Many directions/ For the end that was given/They gave us pieces of silver and pieces of gold/Tell me, Who’ll pay reparations on my soul?” - Gil Scott-Heron

Photo by Jon Tyson on Unsplash

(Sunday, November 10th At 11 AM, Hybrid Worship: In-Person and Live-Streamed On Zoom)

Scripture: Psalm 146 and Jeremiah 32:1-10, 15

Sermon: Prophetic Investment by Pastor Mark Harper

“There are no unsacred places; there are only sacred places and desecrated places.” – Wendell Berry

Photo by Kelly Sikkema on Unsplash

(Sunday, November 3rd At 11 AM, Hybrid Communion Worship: In-Person and Live-Streamed On Zoom)

(Daylight Savings Time ends today)

Scripture: Isaiah 25:6-10 and Mark 12:28-34

Sermon: Rebuilding the Bridge by Pastor Mark Harper

“Neighbor is not a geographic term. It is a moral concept.” 

                                                -Rabbi Joachim Prinz

(Sunday, October 27th At 11 AM, Hybrid Worship: In-Person and Live-Streamed On Zoom)

Scripture:Luke 4:16-21 and Deuteronomy 15:12-15 (GNT)

Sermon: “Restoration and Release: God’s Plan for Equity” by Rev Lewis T. Tait 

“…the church, in obedience to Jesus Christ, is open to the reform of its standards of doctrine as well as of governance. The church affirms ‘Ecclesia reformata, semper reformanda secundum verbum Dei, that is, ‘The church reformed, always to be reformed according to the Word of God’ in the power of the Holy Spirit.”

-The Book of Order of the Presbyterian Church (USA), F-2.02