Go in Peace

God turns our offering into tangible experiences of God’s love. Even when we give, we end up being receivers of God’s generosity.

Sam, a high school senior, describes listening for God's call in his life both in his professional pursuit and also saying "yes" to being an Assistant Scout Master. This is part of our series on Vocation: the ways we respond to God's call in our daily life.

Jesus encourages us to pray always so that we do not lose heart. (Luke 18: 1-8). This sermon explores Jesus' parable and offers three prayer postures that can help us to pray always.

Jesus praises the Samaritan for returning to thank God for healing him. (Luke 17: 11-19). Jesus also encourages us to turn to God and give thanks, too, because gratitude is good for our heart, soul, faith, and discipleship.

Jesus embodies God’s loving humility and Jesus leads us into a life of humility that blesses our neighbors with God’s love. Luke 16:19-31.

A story of how Pastor Ben’s prayer evolved and changed over two years while hoping to become parents.

God's parties look different than typical parties. God's parties reflect the grace and generosity of the host. In Luke 14, Jesus compares a typical dinner party to God's gatherings. Through Jesus, God always says to us, "You are invited!"

For the sake of sharing God's goodness, Jesus disrupts patterns that harm, and Jesus leads us to do the same. Luke 12:49-56

God promises that a light shines in the darkness and the darkness does not overcome it. (John 1:1-5) Life brings about experiences of darkness, such as pain, loss, grief, discord and the like, and God promises that even in these moments, the eternal light of Christ stays lit.

In our Vocation series, we hear personal stories of God’s call in our lives. Sue shares her journey through self-doubt to trusting God is indeed calling her to use her musical gifts in service to others.

This sermon explores the paradox of experiencing the hardships of life while also experiencing God's goodness: the paradox of the cross and resurrection.

Jesus changes the question from “Who is my neighbor?” to “What does it mean to be a neighbor?” To illustrate the difference between these two questions Jesus tells the parable of the Good Samaritan (Luke 10:25-37). Jesus calls us to live by the latter question and to thus, be merciful. Link to the video "People Walk Past Loved Ones Disguised As Homeless On The Street Social Experiment" https://you...

The Christian faith is more than an insurance policy for what happens to us after we die. God sends Jesus so that we would be made whole in the here and now, too. This sermon also explores mental health as a specific example of God caring for us in this moment, too, and this sermon attempts to lift the veil on mental health so that we experience the healing Jesus brings us.

As baptized children of God, we follow Jesus into lives of serving and loving others. Danielle shares her vocation story of becoming and being a Speech Pathologist.

The Holy Spirit empowers us to speak God’s love in ways that other people can receive it. Acts 2.

Jesus prays that the church would be one just as God is one. John 17

Jesus commands us to let the love of God we receive to flow through us and be God's love for our neighbor.

God leads us in the ways of abundant life. This sermon guides the listener through Psalm 23 and provides opportunity for reflection and listening to his/her inner teacher. Hopefully, this intentional reflection blesses the listener’s relationship with God and walk with Jesus. This link will provide the Psalm 23 "worksheet:" https://drive.google.com/file/d/1BFp-xvuRs6Z-VnaQSwKF2qSchM6Mkiss/view?usp...

Jesus frees us to be who he needs us to be and in so doing Jesus brings us from mundane to abundant life, from death to life. John 21:1-19

Al tells his story of being raised to new life through recovery from alcoholism. "So if anyone is in Christ, there is a new creation: everything old has passed away; see, everything has become new!"

God brings forth a super bloom of resurrection, new life, and hope from the ashes of Good Friday. Easter Sunday. Luke 24:1-2

Our faith life needs the full experience of Holy Week. Although it is a hard week, God promises us that the story never ends on the cross. Easter always comes.

When Mary pours perfume all over Jesus' feet, she shows us to express the gratitude welling up in our hearts. John 12:1-8.

Jesus tells three stories showing the many ways we can experience being lost, but Jesus’ stories are first and foremost about our God who seeks us out when we are lost and who celebrates every time we are found. Luke 15

Jesus turns us from pointing out the sins of others to instead look in the mirror and 1) see ourselves as God sees us and 2) be who God calls us to be. In this sense, Jesus gives us the gift of being transformed by God's love. Luke 13:1-9