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Advent Week Four: Love Listen to Mother Wendy Dixon's sermon Advent 4: Getting to "Yes". This week Wendy reminds us that even in our own lives we sometimes say "yes", and over time we drift away and say "no". How does God respond? He responds with deep deep love and commitment to all that he has made. In the words of Hosea, he continues to reach out to us with &q...

Listen to Cn Tim Clayton as we continue our spiritual formation class and journey, The Way of Love. Part 8, Presence Join Tim as we look at the way of love and "being" the presence of Jesus. Journal questions: What is it that brought you to love Jesus? What would you say are main reasons you love him? Can you think of everyday (normal for you) language you would use to talk about these t...

Advent Week Three: Joy Listen to Cn Ross Kimball's message Advent 3: How Do We Know We Are Hearing the Voice of God? In this insightful sermon, Cn Ross shares a number of ideas to help us with this colossal topic. Ross looks at the story of the boy Samuel who is being called in the night by the Lord, and the young child doesn't realize it's the voice of God and the priest Eli helps...

Advent Week Two: Peace Listen to Dr. Todd Johnson's message Advent 2: God's Deep Love for All of the Peoples of the World Todd's shares his unique perspective on Advent, the coming of the Kingdom of God for the ongoing rescue of all of humanity. Today we mark an advent for all peoples, this calendar season in the church, we wait for, we expect and we welcome the "global Jesus&q...

Advent Week One: Hope Listen to Mr. Joe Sherratt's message as we enter Advent: Responding to the Promise of God's Love Join us as Joe shares a beautiful reminder as we enter into Advent, recognizing that the realities of Jesus' Kingdom will redeem the realities of a fallen world. Joe reminds us that the incarnation reveals that God speaks into the realities of our lives; into the bu...

Listen to Cn Tim Clayton's Message: Learning to Forgive; Ending the Cycles of Retribution Join us as Tim concludes our series on Mercy and Forgiveness with an insightful look at the need for each of us to learn how to forgive so that we can end the cycles of retribution that affect our relationships with families, friends, co-workers, and those who we interact with in our lives. Tim looks at...

Listen to Cn Tim Clayton's Message: Journeying Together, As We Have No Easy Home. We have always said that Trinity exists because we and others need a fresh encounter with the living Jesus. Sunday, Tim introduced the (rather biblical) image of exodus: our God has called us and is leading us, present with us. Realizing we are on exodus helps us to realize that (probably) the path will not be s...

Listen to Cn Tim Clayton as we continue our spiritual formation class and journey, The Way of Love. Part 7, Different Bodies, Different Circumstances-Race Join Tim as we look at the way of love and race. Special Guest: Jennifer Keifer What aspect of America’s racial past or present most grieves you? What’s your best experience of multi- or cross- racial friendship or community? And why? What chall...

Listen to Canon Tim Clayton's sermon: Mercy and Forgiveness, The Beginning Place Join us as Tim walks us through some interesting questions. What does it mean to be a fully alive human being? What would a fully whole, fully well, fully alive human being look like? It would look like a person who loves the Lord their God with all their soul, all their mind, all their strength, and who loves th...

Listen to Mrs. Jen Keifer's sermon on Mercy and Forgiveness: The Communion of Saints. In this beautiful message, Jennifer walks us through some of the stories of saints through the ages and reminds us that Jesus is with us always, journeying together with us through difficult and hard situations in life. Groaning is defined as: to utter a deep moan indicative of pain, grief, or annoyance.. No...

Listen to Mako Nagasawa's sermon, Mercy and Forgiveness Pt. 7: Generosity This week we continue our series on Mercy and Forgiveness and look deeper at Jubilee. Mako shares with us about the terms of living God's generosity into our society in ways that can seem out of bounds to our normal assumptions, or maybe that don't occur to us. Join us Sunday Mornings at 10 am. Outdoors this a...

Listen to Canon Tim Clayton's sermon: Jubilee, We are Never Without a Future. This week Tim walks us through the incredible, biblical idea of Jubilee and how it relates to us in our own personal lives and culture. God's Great Mercy and Forgiveness reminding us that we are never without a future. From Leviticus chapter 25. Join us Sunday Mornings at 10 am. Outdoors this autumn on the beau...

Listen to Cn Tim Clayton as we continue our spiritual formation class and journey, The Way of Love. Part 6, Intimacies Within the Full Range of Our Relationships. Join Tim as we look at the way of love and intimacies within the full range of our relationships and friendships. How walking with Jesus connects with our inner life broadly speaking. In general our culture sometimes struggles in friends...

Listen to Mother Wendy Dixon's sermon, "Love That Never Fails". Join us as we continue our series on Mercy and Forgiveness. This week Wendy walks us through a beautiful story from the gospel of John. “Do you want to be healed?” (Jesus says to the man who is lame and paralyzed, lying by the pool of Bethesda), The sick man answered him, “Sir, I have no one to put me into the pool when...

Listen to Cn Ross Kimball's sermon, "Participation" - How We Can Participate in God's Great Restoration Project in Jesus. Join us as we continue our series on Mercy and Forgiveness. This week Ross shares a wonderful message. Is there something more for us in the Christian life? As Dallas Willard points out, "What's missing from our Gospel is the promise of life...&quo...

Listen to Ms Rissy Jones' sermon, "The Safety of God's Grace and Forgiveness" Join us as we continue our series on Mercy and Forgiveness. This week Rissy looks at John chapter 8, and the safe and gracious way that Jesus deals with those who are accused, and the accusers. A beautiful and important message about the Safety of God's Grace and Forgiveness. Join us Sunday Morni...

Listen to Cn Tim Clayton's sermon, "Presence" Join us as we continue our series on Mercy and Forgiveness. This week Tim shares about being present with Jesus; Body, Mind, and Spirit. From the gospel of John we journey with Jesus and his disciples who followed him across seas, up onto mountainsides, and wherever they could be in his presence.  In this place he says, “I am the bread o...

Listen to Cn Tim Clayton as we continue our spiritual formation class and journey, The Way of Love. Part 5, Caretakers and Representatives. Join Tim as we look at the way of love as a part of the created order. We take a look at the story that the Bible gives us about God and his non-human creation: such a beautiful story, and so much fuller than we have been taught. The Beginning: A Story of Wond...

Listen to Cn Tim Clayton's sermon, "The Core, God's Love Within You" Join us as we start a new series on Mercy and Forgiveness. This week Tim looks at Paul's first letter to Timothy, where he shares from his heart, " I received mercy for this reason, that in me, as the foremost, Jesus Christ might display his perfect patience as an example to those who were to believe...

Listen to Cn Tim Clayton's sermon, "Lifting Up Our Eyes 9: God's Response, "Here I Am" Join us as Tim looks at this classic story of Abraham and Isaac in Genesis 22.  In this story we learn that God's response is always equal to the depth of the mess. It's also a testimony to the intimacy between Abraham and the Lord. Is there something in the heart and mind of A...

Listen to Cn Tim Clayton's sermon, "Lifting Up Our Eyes 8 - Believe that He is Merciful" Join us as Tim looks at this beautiful story in Genesis 18. A story about Abraham who learns that his wife Sarah will have a baby, even though they are older and past the age of childbearing. In this lovely story we see how God is faithful when we are faithless, and how his mercy endures forever...

Listen to Ms Rissy Jones' sermon, "Lifting Up Our Eyes 7 - Hope" Join us as Rissy looks at the story of Joseph and his brothers from Genesis 44, 45. A fascinating look at the story of Joseph and the hope he was able to bring to his family when everyone had counted him out, and a look at some of those challenges that each of us face within us because of how we are made, and around us...

Listen to Cn Ross Kimball's sermon, "Lifting Up Our Eyes 6 - Accepting, Forgiving, Welcoming" Join us as Ross looks at  the story from Genesis 32 where Jacob says, “No, please, if I have found favor in your sight, then accept my present from my hand. For I have seen your face, which is like seeing the face of God, and you have accepted me. Please accept my blessing that is brought t...

Listen to Matt Vacelkiv's sermon, "Lifting Up Our Eyes 5 -God Speaks to His People During Hardships" Join us as Matt looks at this special passage from Isaiah chapter 40. As God reminds us wherever we are in our journey through good times and hardships: 'Look up to the heavens. “Who created all the stars? …calling each by its name. Because of his great power and incomparable st...

Listen to Mtr Wendy's sermon, "Lifting Up Our Eyes 4 - Rejoice" This week, Wendy looks at the story of God's people in the book of 1 Samuel (1 Samuel 6.1-16) where the people find hope when they lift their eyes and see the ark of God. Join us Sunday Mornings at 930 am. Outdoors this summer on the beautiful and scenic campus of Gordon Conwell Theological Seminary 130 Essex St, S...