Sundays at PBCOB

This past Saturday, we continued our series on the Psalms, looking at  Psalm 51 .  It's a psalm of lament, with David focusing on the fallout over Bathsheba and Uriah the Hittite. -Sermon from 1/22/2023

This past Saturday, we continued our series on the Psalms, looking at Psalm 19 . This is a hymn of praise, focusing in on God speaking to us through nature and God speaking to Israel through the law. - Sermon from 1/14/2023

This past Sunday, we continued our series on the Psalms, looking at Psalm 8 . In this Psalm, David wrestles with the greatness of God and nature and his own status as a mere mortal. It's a good Psalm that causes us to wrestle with our own humanity, hopefully keeping us grounded in humility. - Sermon from 1/8/2023

This past Sunday, we started a new series, looking at Psalm 23 . While we associate this Psalm with funerals, it's a song of praise intended for the living. - Sermon from 1/1/2023

This past Sunday, we spent our morning looking at Luke 2:6-7 and the idea that our Christmas celebrations don't need to be these perfect Hallmark ending endeavors. The original Christmas was filled with much goop and certainly ours can be as well! - Sermon from 12/25/2022

This past Sunday, we continued with our Advent sermon series, looking at Matthew 2:1-2 and the faith of the Magi. - Sermon from 12/18/2022

This past Sunday, we continued with our Advent sermon series, looking at Luke 2:39-40. We spent our time reflecting on the idea of God becoming human and what that means for us. - Sermon from 12/11/2022

This past Sunday, we continued with our Advent sermon series, looking at Luke 1:42-43. We spent our time reflecting on what it would be like for Eve and Mary to meet in person. - Sermon from 12/04/2022

This past Sunday, we started our Advent sermon series, looking at four different themes we encounter in the original Christmas stories. The first was on the theme of Virgin Birth (as found in Luke 1:34) and we focused our time on the idea that spiritual transformation is akin to this paradoxical idea in our faith. - Sermon from 11/27/2022

This past Sunday, we used Psalm 100 as a reference point for talking about the theme of thankfulness as worship. We heard from three folks in our congregation as to what they were thankful for! - Sermon from 11/20/2022

This past Sunday, we looked at 1 Corinthians 12:4-27, as we examined the metaphor of the church as a body. Just as we need eyes and ears, we also need armpits and spleens! - Sermon from 11/13/2022

- Sermon from 11/06/2022

This past Sunday, we looked at Genesis 27 and the story of Jacob stealing Esau's blessing. - Sermon from 10/30/2022

This past Sunday, we looked at John 9 and the healing of the man born blind. We spent our time looking at the switch from drama to comedy and examined how our own lives can mimic those in the story as well. - Sermon from 10/23/2022

This past Sunday, we looked at John 6:16-24 and the Walking on Water miracle. Here we see Jesus reveal more of his true nature to his disciples (a theophany!). - Sermon from 10/16/2022

This past Sunday, we looked at John 6:1-15 and the Feeding of the 5000 miracle. Jesus was the new Moses figure in this story but unlike the gathering of manna, there were numerous baskets of provision that were leftover, meant to symbolize the new provision of God. - Sermon from 10/9/2022

This past Sunday, we looked at Matthew 5:13-16 and examined the teaching of Christ to be salt and light. This sermon was a follow-up to the first message I preached in January 2022, about pursuing the question of "what kind of neighbor are we being to those around us?". - Sermon from 10/2/2022

Guest Speaker: Erik Lundin - Sermon from 9/25/2022

This past Sunday, we looked at John 5:1-17 , as we examined the third miracle in John's Gospel. Jesus healed the man by the pool and we spent our time exploring the idea that this man very likely did not want to be healed. - Sermon from 9/18/2022

This past Sunday, we looked at John 4:46-54 , as we examined the second miracle in John's Gospel. Jesus healed the royal official's son, while calling the man to not just believe that he could do miracles, but that he was the miracle. - Sermon from 9/11/2022

This past Sunday, we looked at John 2:1-12 as we began our new series looking at the 7 miracles in John's Gospel. Jesus turns water into wine as a way of announcing he was doing something new in the world. Our temptation is often to turn wine back into water. - Sermon from 9/4/2022

- Sermon from 8/28/2022

This past Sunday, we looked at Judges 11:29-41 and the vow of Jephthah. There are many details to the story that can be understood in different ways, but regardless of this, the outcome is the same - Jephthah's words brought about his destruction and serves as a warning for our own use of words. - Sermon from 8/21/2022

This past Sunday, we looked at Ephesians 1:15-23 and explored Paul's prayer for the church at Ephesus. He prayed that their hearts would continued to be guided by wisdom and that they'd understand Christ as the head of the Church, sitting at the right hand of God in heaven. Christ has the power, we do not. - Sermon from 8/14/2022

This past Sunday, we looked at  1 Kings 19:1-18 and explored Elijah's running from Jezebel. Elijah encountered God in the silence and not the earthquake or wind or fire - perhaps he realized there was never a moment when God was not with him. - Sermon from 8/7/2022