From Your Pastor

Today's sermon is a short one that explores the Lord's Prayer from the Gospel of Matthew and then sends us out to try the many pathways of prayer. 

What is prayer and how do we do it all day long without ceasing? 

Today we examine what it means to be selfless like Christ without pretending you don't exist. 

By belonging to each other, do we sacrifice our "self"?

Today we examine what breaks down belonging. You also get a glimpse at the end of the sermon into our weekly post-sermon "small group" time at Ormewood Church. 

Today we explore that admirable church in Acts chapter 2, and we ponder what made their belonging so grand!

In this episode we explore how our belonging in the world is made of creative stuff and creative relationships, but most of all it is created and defended by God.

This is the first episode in our Belonging series at Ormewood Church. The story at the beginning of the sermon is from Vivek Murthy's amazing book Together . We highly recommend reading the book or listening to his interview with Brene' Brown on her podcast Unlocking Us. 

In this episode we follow the movements of baptism: going under the water and rising again. We consider what that means theologically as we wrestle with Paul's letter to the Roman church. 

This week we look at Jesus' baptism, and why he would need to be baptized in the first place. Turns out it is all about participating in relationships rightly. 

This week we take a look at how the metaphor of water is sprinkled throughout the Bible as a way to articulate something profound about the invisible ways of God. 

We get a little help from our Celtic Christian friends as we explore how the invisible breaks through to the visible. The John O'Donohue references are from his delightful book "Anam Cara."