(Sunday, November 27 At 11 AM, First Sunday of Advent, Hybrid Worship: In-Person and Live-Streamed On Zoom)

Scripture: Romans 13:11-12 and Matthew 24:36-44

Sermon: The First Church by Pastor Mark Harper

“Advent isn’t just a season in the Christian calendar. Advent is a state of being … it means to live in hopeful anticipation during a season of suffering and fear and uncertainty. When we just don’t quite know when it’s going to be okay, Advent reminds us of the discipline of hope.” - Kate Bowler

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(Sunday, November 20 At 11 AM, Hybrid Worship: In-Person and Live-Streamed On Zoom)

Scripture: Colossians 1:11-20 and Luke 23:33-43

Sermon: The First Church by Pastor Mark Harper

“Success and failure, ultimately, have little to do with living the gospel, Jesus just stood with the outcasts until they were welcomed or until he was crucified – whichever came first.” - Greg Boyle, Tattoos on the Heart: The Power of Boundless Compassion

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(Sunday, November 13 At 11 AM, Hybrid Worship: In-Person and Live-Streamed On Zoom)

Scripture: Jeremiah 1:4-10 and Luke 21:5-19

Sermon: Unscripted Speech by Pastor Mark Harper

“Do not be silent; there is no limit to the power that may be released through you.” - Howard Thurman

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(Sunday, November 6 At 11 AM, Hybrid Communion Worship: In-Person and Live-Streamed On Zoom)

Scripture: Exodus 3:1-6 and Luke 20:27-38

Sermon: God of the Living by Pastor Mark Harper

“I stand here on trial on account of my hope in the promise made by God to our ancestors, a promise that our twelve tribes of Israel hope to attain, as they earnestly worship day and night. It is for this hope your Excellency, that I am accused by Judeans! Why is it thought incredible by any of you that God raises the dead?” -Paul testifying before King Agrippa (Acts 26:6-8)

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

Scripture: Isiah 1:10-17 and Luke 19:1-10

Sermon: Calling Us Down — Rev. Mark Harper

“The most painful act the human being can perform, the act that (the human) dreads the most is the act of seeing. It is in that act of seeing that love is born or rather more accurately, that act of seeing is Love.”

-Anthony de Mello

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

Scripture: Micah 6:6-8 and Luke 18:9-14

Sermon: Recovering from Being Right — Rev. Mark Harper

“The Gospel is frankly hard for the pious to understand. Because the Gospel confronts us with the truth saying you are a sinner, a great and desperate sinner. Now come as the sinner you are to the God who loves you madly.”

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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

Scripture: 2 Timothy 4:1-5 and Luke 18:1-8

Sermon: The Sound of Hope — Rev. Mark Harper

“History belongs to the intercessors – those who believe and pray the future into being.” Walter Wink

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

Scripture: Psalm 111 and Luke 17:11-19

Sermon: Jesus in the Borderlands — Rev. Mark Harper