"God plan for Jesus’ life has already been set into motion. God must be ready for Jesus to get going with the disciples. And yet, the humanity of Jesus seems to resist it."
Preacher: Dawn Hyde
Date: January 20, 2019
Scripture: John 2:1-11
"God choose to dwell in the fullness of humanity to the extent that even God had to play by the rules on the cross. No water, no life. I am thirsty, I am dying. The water, at the beginning and the end."
Date: January 13, 2018
Preacher: Amos Disasa
Text: Isaiah 43:1-7
"During the day we claim people as friends and at night we run when the friendship demands more than the label, when it's necessary for us to bear with them."
Date: December 30, 2018
Preacher: Amos Disasa
Text: Colossians 3:12-17
"Sometimes words aren’t enough. Sometimes you gotta sing."
Preacher: Dawn Hyde
Date: December 23rd, 2018
Scripture: Luke 1:39-45, (46-55)
"As I wondered about the sanitization of a teen holding a dead bird, he asked me, ever so gently, 'Would you help me bury her?”
Preacher: Dawn Hyde
Date: December 16th, 2018
Scripture: Philippians 4:4-7
“How many times can you prepare the way of the Lord before you begin believing that the Lord isn't coming?”
Date: December 9th, 2018
Preacher: Amos Disasa
Text: Luke 3:1-6
"God the architect shows up with the master design and redefines what we thought we were building. God redefines us."
Preacher: Dawn Hyde
Date: November 25th, 2018
Scripture: John 18:33-37
"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
"The separation death brings is painful because it leaves us in the tension of wanting to be among both the living and the dead. For now, that is only a space God inhabits."
Preacher: Dawn Hyde
Date: November 4th, 2018
Scripture: Revelation 21:1-6
“A return to civility is not enough. Civility is too often deployed when we find that we lack love. What the Lord requires of us is not civility, it is justice.”
Preacher: Amos Disasa
Date: October 28th, 2018
Scripture: Jeremiah 31:7-9
“When we are in the whirlwind, we are apt to assume that God must respond when we demand explanation for what life mysteriously prepared the first time around.”
Preacher: Amos Disasa
Date: October 21st, 2018
Scripture: Job 38:1-7, 34-41
“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
"The light only held for a moment and then it shifted away. My eyes beheld it, that oil smudge, illumined in the light, my fingerprint."
Preacher: Dawn Hyde
Date: October 7th, 2018
Scripture: Hebrews 1:1-4
"Prayer is as simple as acknowledging God’s presence. But, prayer is powerful when you expect change."
Preacher: Dawn Hyde
Date: September 30, 2018
Scripture: James 5:13-18
"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
"We need something extra, something eternal to ourselves, something real we can put on to summon strength from the outside in. Shoes help with this."
Preacher: Dawn Hyde
Date: August 26, 2018
Scripture: Ephesians 6:10-20
"Wisdom is the voice that's whispering in your ear all day, reminding you that the secret to life is that there is no secret."
Preacher: Amos Disasa
Date: August 19, 2018
Scripture: 1 Kings 2:10-12; 3:3-14
"He commands the clouds to move and fires to flare. He speaks and God hears. The the very next day he’s with us, afraid and broken, can’t get up because he gave up."
Preacher: Amos Disasa
Date: August 12, 2018
Scripture: 1 Kings 19:4-8