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Pentecost opens up a world of infinite possibility – a world whose possibilities are limited only by the bounds of God’s love and power and imagination. With the gift of the Spirit, this becomes clear: What God has been doing in Christ – God is now doing in us.Av Rev. Scott Clark

In the Resurrection of Jesus Christ, God has set all creation free; we are God’s own offspring. Christ’s resurrection life is present in every bit of creation, which means that every bit of creation gets to be free.Av Rev. Scott Clark

Facing violence and death, Stephen fixes his gaze on the life we find in the Risen Christ – healing, justice, and mercy stronger than any power that can do us harm.Av Rev. Scott Clark

In Resurrection, Jesus shares life with us, and invites us to share everything in life-giving community. Acts 2 gives us a glimpse -- a memory of who we hope to be, in Christ – a community where love takes shape, where we live together and learn together and break bread together, where we share what we have so that everyone can thrive.…

On the Road to Emmaus, in the walking, talking, and breaking of bread – they experience the Risen Christ and the power of Resurrection – in the fullness of life – in every step – in every word – in every taste, sight, sound, smell, and touch.Av Rev. Scott Clark

Will we have the courage to embrace doubt and the faith to believe in the one who can overcome it?Av Patrick O'Connor, Director of Family Ministries

In Resurrection, Jesus opens up a brand new day where everything that lies ahead is life. The beginning, the middle, and the end – it’s all right here in this moment – full of grace and truth – alive in us.Av Rev. Scott Clark

On Palm Sunday, Jesus sets his face like flint, knowing where he is heading, and leads us toward the cross and on into Resurrection.Av Rev. Scott Clark

In the valley of dry bones, Ezekiel embodies a word of life. In all our places of desolation, God breathes breath into our dry bones and brings us into new life.Av Rev. Scott Clark

The story of Jesus and the man born blind challenges us to question the assumptions underlying some of our questions -- and invites us to ask, "How can we heal?" and "How can we help?"Av Patrick O'Connor, Director of Family Ministries

In all our parched places, Jesus gives us living water and invites us to live in relationships of mutuality.Av Rev. Scott Clark

With God, we go, into this world of new beginnings, together, to be a blessing and to welcome each other into beginning again.Av Rev. Scott Clark

This Sunday, we consider the story of Jesus tempted in the wilderness. In a world full of voices that compete for our attention, the one that matters most is the one that says: “You are a beloved child of God.”Av Rev. Scott Clark

In the experience of awe, God draws us out of ourselves, connects us to something so much bigger than us, and urges us into lives of strength, courage, and kindness.Av Rev. Scott Clark

In the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus opens up an ethic for living God’s brave new world into being. In Jesus Christ, we come to understand that what God has always been doing is urging us toward what matters most – what God has always been about – the dignity and well-being of all humanity and all creation.…

In the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus announces a brave new world, breaking forth even now. We actualize that when we live it out. “You are the salt of the earth. You are the light of the world.” Let salt be salty. Let light shine.Av Rev. Scott Clark

In the Beatitudes, Jesus announces a brave new world that honors and dignifies and lifts up our humanity and that, in Christ reshapes our lives on the basis of loving relationship.Av Rev. Scott Clark

“Follow me” is an invitation not just to do something, but to be something. It is an invitation to belong to God’s beloved community.Av Rev. Judy Slater, Guest Preacher

Av Rev. Paul Gaffney, Guest Preacher

As we set intentions at the start of a new year, God guides us together into the life of Christ.Av Rev. Scott Clark

On the first day of the new year, we arrive in this truth: The Word became flesh and dwells in us, full of grace and truth. Let it be.Av Rev. Scott Clark

This is the Good News of Christmas – the heartbeat of God pulsing in the fullness of humanity. As we live into the life of Christ, we become the heartbeat of God in and for the world God loves.Av Rev. Scott Clark

In the hope of a starlit sky, in our embodied lives, in the coming of Christ – God is already here, and always on the way.Av Rev. Scott Clark

The second in our Advent series "Hope of a Starlit Night" -- God keeps vigil at night, inviting us into the vigil and into the work of freedom.Av Rev. Scott Clark

In the quiet of a starlit night, we watch, and wait, and hope – for Christ, already with us, and always on the way.Av Rev. Scott Clark

In good times and not so good, God accompanies us in love and grace, and we thrive in gratitude.Av Rev. Scott Clark

God invites us into a discernment lifestyle, an ongoing conversation with God in prayer.Av Rev. Marissa Danney

On All Saints Day, we celebrate God’s love alive in the saints who have gone before, those living now, and those who are yet to come.Av Rev. Scott Clark

Av Rev. Eric Beene

In prayer, Jesus invites us to draw near to God, confessing our need for God, living into Christ’s tender mercy.Av Rev. Scott Clark

God hears the pleas of the hungry and invites us to listen and act – to pray and never give up. The world is full of the pleas and cries of the hundreds of millions who hunger. World Food Day asks us to listen and to act.Av Rev. Scott Clark

If you want to experience the glory of God, look to what Deacons do.Av Rev. Scott Clark

Jesus seeks us out and brings us to the table, saying, “I am among you as one who serves.”Av Rev. Scott Clark

God joins us in the circle of lament -- as we listen to the lament of the world, share our own, and move forward together into a world of healing.Av Patrick O'Connor & Scott Clark

Av Patrick, O'Connor, M.Div.

In Christ, our work is to work for the freedom of all, so that individually and together we can become all we are created to be and do in the world.Av Rev. Scott Clark

Jesus invites all of us to a table of mutuality and justice, where the privileged give up our place at the table as we celebrate those who are finding theirs.Av Rev. Scott Clark

In Sabbath, Jesus embodies the rule of freedom – God’s liberating power at work healing the world.Av Rev. Scott Clark

God grieves the destruction we wreak on this Earth, but even in collapse, draws us into deeper connection and creative work.Av Rev. Scott Clark

On the night before he dies, Jesus embodies and suggests an answer to the question, “What does a good day look like for you?” – inviting us to live into what really matters.Av Rev. Scott Clark

Jesus invites us into a rhythm of a life centered and grounded in love – acting with compassion to meet the needs of the world, and resting in the presence of the God who welcomes us all.Av Rev. Scott Clark

What is the center of our faith? Like Hannah, let us ground our faith in the love of a steadfast and trustworthy God.Av Patrick Kiptum, Former First Pres Seminary Intern

God sends us a word of healing, not in our power and privilege, but in our shared vulnerability.Av Rev. Scott Clark

Jesus sets at the center of our journey all that we need, and invites us to travel light.Av Rev. Scott Clark

In a world of power-over, the Good News lies in the agency and freedom that God gives us to live – by the power of the Spirit – lives that work for freedom, for the common good, and for the well-being of all people. God gives us agency and freedom to work for the common good, within the context of the constitutional structures of nations.…

In freedom, the Spirit of Christ empowers us to live out lives of love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, gentleness, and self-control.Av Rev. Scott Clark

Av Rev. Dvera Hadden

In the power of the Risen Christ, Resurrection liberates bodies and lives. Resurrection breaks everything free, and then invites us to take the next step into this new life of liberation.Av Rev. Scott Clark

Like, Paul and Lydia and Ananias and Tabitha and the women at the river outside the city gates, and the widows in Joppa, we welcome each other in to the life of Resurrection. In Christ, we experience Resurrection in depth of belonging – in hospitality and tender mercy – embodied in community – embodied in us.…

In our baptism, we are baptized into community – into a family of all God’s children. In Christ, we are baptized into life with each other.Av Rev. Scott Clark