Sunday, February 9, 2014

Pastor Brad Highum 
talks to us about the Living Word 
"Miracle"

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This Sunday,  February 9, we continued our exploration of Living Words, as we look at the word'Miracle.'
 The word "miracle" appears nowhere in Scripture; it's not in the Bible.  And yet the Scriptures are filled with miracles ... acts or occurrences that appear to be "super-natural," outside the normal bounds of what is possible.  For some, they have become the proofs of God's existence and involvement in the world.  Some are awed by them, some pray for them, some try to explain them.  But all are mystified by them, those experiences that, for a moment or a lifetime, change the world.  Let's explore miracles, as the Bible recounts them and as they occur in daily life, to reconnect with the numinous, immanent God, in and around us.
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Sunday, February 2, 2014

Senior Pastor Lynnae Sorensen 
talks to us about the Living Word 
"Revelation"
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Sunday, January 26, 2014

Pastor Brad Highum talks to us about 
the Living Word
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Sunday, January 19, 2014


Senior Pastor Lynnae Sorensen talks to us about 
the Living Word
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Sunday, January 12, 2014



Epiphany
January 5 - March 2
As we continue our study of Living Words, this Sunday we will take a look at the word 'Repent.'
John the Baptist begins his prophetic ministry with an earth-shaking proclamation:  "The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God has come near; repent, and believe in the good news." (Mark 1:15)  As Jesus' earthly ministry begins, he likewise proclaims, "Repent, for the kingdom of heaven has come near." (Matthew4:17)  The call to repent - literally to turn - is an invitation from God to embrace this new kingdom that is even now breaking into the world.  It is a kingdom not of earthly empire where an earthly emperor rules with military and economic power, but a divine kingdom where the goodness of God reigns by the power of love.  God's simple and loving invitation is to repent, to turn and embrace new life in a world made new.
Yet the very word "repent" has been used by some as a cudgel in the Christian tradition, to shame people and denigrate their broken and sinful condition.  We need to reclaim this gracious word from its "fire-and-brimstone" abuses and engage the healing, life-giving possibilities it opens in our lives.
PRAYER OF THE DAY 
Gracious God, your call to repent – to embrace the in-breaking of your Kingdom in creation – echoes in the land once more.  Open our ears to hear, our minds to comprehend and our hearts to receive your loving invitation to healing, to wholeness, to new life in you.  Amen.
READINGS
First Reading:  Isaiah 42:1-10
Psalm 29
Second Reading:  Acts 10:34-43
Gospel:  Matthew 3:13-17

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Sunday, January 5, 2014

This Epiphany season we will encounter the Word using a sermon series called: “Living Words”. May the Word of 
God dwell in you richly. See you in church! 
Pastor Lynnae 
Sermon Series with the word
"LOGOS"

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Sunday, December 29, 2013

Pastor Brad talks to us about the visit of the Magi

Blessings and joy to you in the wonder of this season! 
- Pastor Brad Highum

Only Matthew’s Gospel contains this story of mystics from the east visiting the One who has come from God into the world.  Historicity is clearly not the point; the story is fraught with imagery and symbolism that resonated deeply with the persecuted church of the first century, just as it does with people of faith and hope in our day.  It is a story of magnificence and vulnerability, a story of wealth and poverty, a story of “insiders” and “outsiders,” a story of earthly power kneeling before the rule and reign of God envisioned in Christ.  It is a profound drama in the midst of the Gospel in which God reveals deep truths about a kingdom that HAS come, that even now is at hand and among us.


PRAYER OF THE DAY: 
We come seeking your kingdom, as strangers in a strange land.  We follow your sign – a light in the heavens – in hopes that it leads us to you.  We find the improbable, born into the impossible, but born nonetheless … a gift of light and grace from you.  Teach us adoration.  Teach us humility.  Teach us the way and the truth that lead to life.  Amen.

READINGS
First Reading:  Isaiah 60:1-6
Psalm 72:1-7,10-14
 Second Reading:  Ephesians 3:1-13
Gospel:  Matthew 2:1-12


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