"Harry knew the fragility of love, how easily it could be broken, more easily than the ancient scroll pages he repaired upstairs."

Preacher: Dawn Hyde
Date: November 11th, 2018
Scripture: Mark 13:1-8

“I've heard many of you say, "I love DOWNTOWN CHURCH, how can I help?" Here's how.”

Preacher: Dawn Hyde
Date: October 14th, 2018
Scripture: Mark 10:17-31

"Jesus is the Son of God, but he's also just a son."

Preacher: Dawn Hyde
Date: September 9, 2018
Scripture: Mark 7:24-30

"Jesus tells us that NOTHING has the power - just by going in - to make us damaged goods. It is what comes out that matters."

Preacher: Dawn Hyde
Date: September 2, 2018
Scripture: Mark 7:1-8, 14-15

"If you start to do that every day, grasping every minute and every encounter with someone to be fully present to the pain and joy in their life as Christ would have you do, you will get tired. You might forget to eat. Or lose out on some sleep."

Preacher: Dawn Hyde
Date: July 22, 2018
Scripture: Mark 6:30-34

"It's dramatic on purpose: Herodias draws our attention away from her first sin to focus on her power over John the Baptist, his head on a platter." 

Preacher: Dawn Hyde
Date: July 15, 2018
Scripture: Mark 6:17-29

"The more I prayed that prayer, the more I got frustrated with God. I didn’t understand why God would lead us out on a boat that we might not survive."

Preacher: Dawn Hyde
Date: June 24, 2018
Scripture: Mark 4:35-41

"We tend to forget the small beginnings of big stories to make room for the more memorable grand finales. But every story worth telling, which is like every life worth living, starts small."

Preacher: Amos Disasa
Date: June 17, 2018
Scripture: Mark 4:26-34

"He  taught them a new song. A song of defiance in the face of demons. A song of delight in the midst of darkness."

Preacher: Amos Disasa
Date: June 10, 2018
Scripture: Mark 3:20-27

"If you can't see through it, then stand on the stone to see over it.  Somebody's got to come back to see and then tell the rest of us that God's got this."

Preacher: Amos Disasa
Date: April 1, 2018
Scripture: Mark 16:1-8

"Do we have the kind of faith that can see far enough into the future to know that the same Jesus who sent for the colt, is still riding it toward a cross, where all our fear will die to make room for our freedom."

Preacher: Amos Disasa
Date: March 25, 2018
Scripture: Mark 11:1-11

"Quantitatively speaking, you don't find all that much laughter in the Bible.  Nobody claims there's a chuckle on every page of scripture, but laughter is what the whole Bible is really about.  God showing up, faithfully….and doing the miraculous."

Preacher: Alice Hernandez
Date: February 25, 2018
Scripture: Mark 11:1-11

"I don't think we are terrified of the God that meets us at the top of high mountains. I do think it's terrifying to know that once you get up there, you won't be the same when you come back."

Preacher: Amos Disasa
Date: February 11, 2018
Scripture: Mark 9:1-9

"Even Jesus, it seems, must first disappear to nowhere before he knows how to find somewhere."

Preacher: Amos Disasa
Date: February 4, 2018
Scripture: Mark 1:29-39

"Talking small demands nothing from you that you can't afford to lose."

Preacher: Amos Disasa
Date: January 28, 2018
Scripture: Mark 1:21-28

"Time does that to us. The scarcity of it makes us all afraid to take our mind off it."

Preacher: Amos Disasa
Date: January 21, 2018
Scripture: Mark 1:14-20

"You can tell they're looking for something. Some come looking for answers. They sit and stare until the walls talk back."

Preacher: Dawn Hyde
Date: January 7, 2018
Scripture: Mark 1:4-11