"What happens if the gift of grace that is ours to give and receive slowly and silently becomes an empty and unbelievable set of well worn phrases, and flimsy talking points, and irrelevant church chitter-chatter?"

Preacher: Amos Disasa
Date: August 5, 2018
Scripture: Ephesians 4:7-16

"People die when we use one another. People die and a part of us dies, too."

Preacher: Dawn Hyde
Date: July 29, 2018
Scripture: 2 Samuel 11:1-15

"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

"The bow of the mighty will break. The barren will bear seven. Fortunes change."

Preacher: Dawn Hyde
Date: June 3, 2018
Scripture: 1 Samuel 2:1-5

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"She does something that would be unforgivable for someone in her role… She speaks. She speaks up. She speaks out. She says.'No.'"

Preacher: Dawn Hyde
Date: May 27, 2018
Scripture: 1 Kings 17:8-16

"Life gets fractured, love gets lost, bodies fail, an inexplicable tragedy changes the trajectory of our journey. And if we just knew that there was a part coming up where it said, "and then God groaned," would we be able to bear this momentary suffering?"

Preacher: Amos Disasa
Date: May 20, 2018
Scripture: Romans 8:22-27

"Conflict happens. It is a part of life, but it doesn’t have to have the final word. God's got something to say."

Preacher: Dawn Hyde
Date: May 13, 2018
Scripture: 1 John 5:9-13

"The text says to obey God’s commandments is not burdensome….but to ignore the burden that love often is, is to minimize the great cost it is to live a life of faith."

Preacher: Alice Hernandez
Date: May 6, 2018
Scripture: 1 John 5:1-6

"Love is like Jello - unfussy, unpretentious, always there. If you want to know God, love like that. God loves like that."

Preacher: Amos Disasa
Date: April 29, 2018
Scripture: 1 John 4:8

"We'll keep the light on for you because we care about you coming home. But once you get her, do your part and keep the light on for someone else who is right behind."

Preacher: Amos Disasa
Date: April 22, 2018
Scripture: Acts 4:32-35

"A real exciting dilemma exists for us: when we live congruently in one area of our life, we will likely be compelled to live congruent in other areas too. There’s the potential for all of us to change our behaviors: to be more congruent in every area of our lives which is potentially scary and yet hopeful and liberating."

Preacher: Alice Hernandez
Date: April 15, 2018
Scripture: 1 John 3:1-7

"It may feel like we've about just about invented our way to independence from each other, but we haven't. The kindred still need to live together in unity. It's still a matter of survival."

Preacher: Amos Disasa
Date: April 8, 2018
Scripture: Psalm 133:1-3

"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

"Life is crooked. And sometimes it gets crooked in a way that you can't make straight on your own."

Preacher: Amos Disasa
Date: March 18, 2018
Scripture: Jeremiah 31:31-34

Preacher: Charles Weathers
Date: March 11, 2018
Scripture: Philippians 2: 1-11