(Sunday, July 9 At 10 AM, Hybrid Worship: In-Person and Live-Streamed On Zoom)

Scripture: Zechariah 9:9-12 and Song of Solomon 2:8-13

Sermon: Love and Liberation by Rev. David Ensign

“Sometimes I feel lost,” said the boy. “Me too,” said the mole, “but we love you, and love brings you home.” - Charlie Mackesy, The Boy, the Mole, the Fox, and the Horse

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(Sunday, July 2 At 10 AM, Hybrid Communion Worship: In-Person and Live-Streamed On Zoom)

Scripture: Psalm 89:1-4 and Matthew 11:2-6

Sermon: Sighs and Wonders by Pastor Mark Harper

“ ‘Isn’t love enough?’ (Jesus) asks John. ‘No,’ John answers angrily. ‘The tree is rotten. God called me and gave me the ax, which I then placed at the roots of the tree. I did my duty. Now you do yours: Take the ax and strike!’ ‘If I were fire, I would burn,’ Jesus says. ‘If I were a woodcutter, I would strike; but I am a heart, and I love.’” - Nikos Kazantzakis, The Last Temptation of Christ

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(Sunday, June 25 At 10 AM, Hybrid Worship: In-Person and Live-Streamed On Zoom)

Scripture: Matthew 10:40-42 and John 11:1-6, 17-27

Sermon: Unbinding Mary by Pastor Mark Harper

“Like it or not, the gospel is a story unleashed. Even Jesus had trouble keeping a lid on it … And that makes some people nervous. That makes me nervous. Because it means every Christian gets a testimony, every Christian gets a ‘gospel according to …’ whether you’re Desmond Tutu or Tim Tebow.” -Rachel Held Evans, Inspired

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(Sunday, June 18 At 110AM, Hybrid Worship: In-Person and Live-Streamed On Zoom)

Scripture: Isaiah 35 and John 11:1-3,17,32-44

Sermon: Lazarus Unbound by Pastor Mark Harper

“Ain’t gonna let nobody, turn us round,
Lord, turn us round, turn us round,
gonna let nobody, turn us round,
just keep on a-walkin’, keep on a-talkin’,
on to freedom land.”
-Freedom Song of the Civil Rights Movement

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

Scripture: Psalm 50:7-15 and Matthew 9:9-13

Sermon: Where We Sit by Pastor Mark Harper

“Where you stand depends on where you sit.” - Nelson Mandela, Rufus Miles

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(Sunday, June 4 At 10 AM, Hybrid Communion Worship: In-Person and Live-Streamed On Zoom)

Scripture: Mark 1:35-39 and Matthew 28:16-20

An Invitation to Contemplation

“Renewal cannot come to the church unless its people are on an inward journey.” - Elizabeth O’Connor

(Sunday, May 28 At 11 AM, Hybrid Worship: In-Person and Live-Streamed On Zoom)

Scripture: Acts 2:1-21

Testimony: The Bagpipe as an Instrument of Lament by Bob Mitchell

Sharing: Where Do We Need the Spirit Now?

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(Sunday, May 21 At 11 AM, Hybrid Worship: In-Person and Live-Streamed On Zoom)

Scripture: Matthew 6:25-34 and Luke 24:36-49

Sermon: Dressed for Discipleship by Pastor Mark Harper

“Shrouds are not a permanent Christian costume.” - Dan Berrigan

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(Sunday, May 14 At 11 AM, Hybrid Worship: In-Person and Live-Streamed On Zoom)

Scripture: 1 Corinthians 12:4-11 and Acts 3:1-10

Testimonies: What Has Happened to Us

“From the bosom of the devastated earth a voice goes up with our own. It says: Disarm, Disarm! The sword of murder is not the balance of justice. Blood does not wipe out dishonor, nor violence vindicate possession. As men have often forsaken the plough and the anvil at the summons of war, let women now leave all that may be left of home for a great and earnest day of council. Let them meet first, as women, to bewail and commemorate the dead. Let them then solemnly take council with each other as to the means whereby the great human family can live in peace, each bearing after his own kind the sacred impress, not of Caesar, but of God.”

-Julia Ward Howe, “Mothers’ Day Proclamation,” 1870

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(Sunday, May 7 At 11 AM, Hybrid Worship: In-Person and Live-Streamed On Zoom)

Scripture: Psalm 31:1-5 and 1 Peter 2:2-10

Sermon: The Church of Rejected Stones by Pastor Mark Harper

“God’s mark and spirit are upon us. We are not God’s elite or God’s favorite or pampered people, but we are claimed by God for God’s purposes.”

-Yvonne V. Delk

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(Sunday, April 30 At 11 AM, Hybrid Worship: In-Person and Live-Streamed On Zoom)

Scripture: Psalm 100 and Acts 2:42-47

Sermon: Awe Came Upon Everyone by Pastor Mark Harper

“Awe is more than an emotion; it is a way of understanding, insight into a meaning greater than ourselves. The beginning of awe is wonder, and the beginning of wisdom is awe.” -Abraham Joshua Heschel

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(Sunday, April 23 At 11 AM, Hybrid Worship: In-Person and Live-Streamed On Zoom)

Scripture: Isaiah 51:1-3 and Luke 24:13-35

Sermon: The Road from Emmaus Back to Earth by Pastor Mark Harper

“For far too long, our modern culture has been on an unrelenting campaign to depict any other way of life that doesn’t rely on massive consumption and expenditure of energy as a worthless way to live, but the time has come – and Mother Earth is speaking in no uncertain terms – when that campaign needs to end, when we need to learn to sit again at the feet of our indigenous elders and invoke the spirits of our Ancestors to teach us once more how to be a blessing on the planet.” - Lily Mendoza

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(Sunday, April 16 At 11 AM, Hybrid Worship: In-Person and Live-Streamed On Zoom)

Scripture: 1 Peter 1:3-9 and John 20:19-31

Sermon: Good News for Those Who Missed It by Pastor Mark Harper

“May we, O God, by grace believe and thus the risen Christ receive, whose raw imprinted hands reached out and beckoned Thomas from his doubt.” -Thomas Troeger, “These Things Did Thomas Count as Real”

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(Sunday, April 9 At 11 AM, Hybrid Easter Worship: In-Person and Live-Streamed On Zoom)

Scripture: Isaiah 25:6-9 and Matthew 28:1-15

Sermon: We Interrupt This Broadcast by Pastor Mark Harper

Blessed are we who stretch out our hands to you in doubt and grief, in sickness of body and mind and spirit, our prayers not fully realized, rejoicing … anyway. For that is what makes us Easter people: carrying forth the realized hope of the Resurrected One, singing our alleluias great and small, while it is still dark. Christ is risen. Christ will come again. Alleluia. Alleluia. Alleluia.” - Kate Bowler and Jessica Richie, The Lives We Actually Have

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(Sunday, April 2 At 11 AM, Hybrid Communion Worship: In-Person and Live-Streamed On Zoom)

Scripture: Isaiah 50:4-9a and Matthew 21:1-11

Sermon: A Resistance Ride by Pastor Mark Harper

“I’d like us to understand resistance as the way we use our everyday lives to exert energy against the dangerous status quo of our time. But resistance cannot only be about what we are against … we are also choosing something else on the other side. Perhaps we are choosing ourselves; perhaps we are choosing an inclusive love or a more just society. We resist ableism or racism because we know there is a better way – this is the way resistance works, and we must both find and create that better way together.” - Kaitlin Curtice

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(Sunday, March 26 At 11 AM, Hybrid Worship: In-Person and Live-Streamed On Zoom)

Lenten Choral Offering: Requiem by James Bingham (1998)

“What would happen to our faith if we believed that God reigns sovereign over both our celebration and our suffering?” -Soong-Chan Rah, Prophetic Lament

(Sunday, March 19 At 11 AM, Hybrid Worship: In-Person and Live-Streamed On Zoom)

Scripture: Psalm 22:1-11,16-21,25-31 and Lamentations 1:17-22

Testimony: Lamentation and Living by Madline Morsha-Taylor and John Peacock

“Stories of suffering can never be buried when lament is an important and central aspect of the church’s worship life. Lamentations reminds us that the proper response to tragedy and suffering is lament.” -Soong-Chan Rah, Prophetic Lament

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

Scripture: Exodus 17:1-7 and John 4:1-30, 39

Sermon: Water Flows to the Lowest Places by Pastor Mark Harper

“Well, Sojourner, did you always go by this name?”

No, ‘deed! My name was Isabella; but when I left the house of bondage, I left everything behind. I wa’n’t goin’ to keep nothin’ of Egypt on me, an’ so I went to the Lord an’ asked Him to give me a new name. And the Lord gave me Sojourner, because I was to travel up an’ down the land, showin’ the people their sins, and bein’ a sign unto them. Afterwards I told the Lord I wanted another name, ‘cause everybody else had two names; and the Lord gave me Truth, because I was to declare the truth to the people. -Sojourner Truth

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

Scripture: Genesis 12:1-4a and John 3:1:21

Sermon: Snakes, Saviors, and Secret Disciples by Pastor Mark Harper

“When the voice of the historically disenfranchised is privileged, what happens to the voice of those who are used to being heard? How will those communities process their discomfort of no longer being the sole voice?” – Mary Dana Hinton

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(Sunday, February 26 At 11 AM, Hybrid Worship: In-Person and Live-Streamed On Zoom)

Scripture: Matthew 3:13-17 and Matthew 4:1-11

Sermon: Hungry Jesus by Pastor Mark Harper

“I see Jesus in every human being. I say to myself, this is hungry Jesus, I must feed him. This is sick Jesus … I must wash him and tend him. I serve because I love Jesus.” Mother Teresa

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