(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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