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As we accompany and extend hospitality to each other, God creates a world of welcome, where everyone is seen as fully human and everyone has enough.Av Rev. Scott Clark

In a world of people on the move, God insists that we love and shelter the stranger. Throughout history and around the world today, God accompanies us as we accompany each other.Av Rev. Scott Clark

In the Body of Christ, love comes to life – as we love with integrity, share in the deep need of the world, and practice hospitality.Av Rev. Scott Clark

Jesus invites us in to work healing and feeding, bringing to life a world of possibility. As Jesus feeds the multitude, Jesus brings the disciples to work, invites them into the building of a brave new world, and says to them: “All this healing, all this feeding, all this life –this is the work that is ours to do together.”…

The Psalms take us on a journey through the whole of life – and what we find – again and again – everywhere we look – is the goodness of God. The invitation that the Psalms extend is this: Like a tree planted by streams of water, sink your roots deep, and live.Av Rev. Scott Clark

God – in God’s goodness and steadfast love – stands with the poor, the vulnerable, and the oppressed, in the place of deepest need. In our anger, God invites us to stand there too. The imprecatory psalms point us to the deep pain in the world; they point us to the peril of our propensity for violence; and they point us – through all that – to seek …

Av Rev. Marissa Danney

From the cross, Jesus cries out in the lament of the psalms, and brings us into a new song for a new creation and a brave new world.Av Rev. Scott Clark

When we pray out of our pain, God is listening, and God is for us. In the psalms of lament, we pray in response to the God we have come to know – to the God who has loved us first – and we ask for help.Av Rev. Scott Clark

Av Rev. Paul Gaffney

We praise to name and acknowledge God’s goodness in the world, more powerful than anything that does us harm. “We praise God in order to see the world as God does,” and then to say “Yes!” to helping God make it so.Av Rev. Scott Clark

God searches us, knows us, and loves us still. God creates us, challenges us, recreates us – always in love. Psalm 139 comforts us and unsettles us, and asks: Do we really want to be known?Av Rev. Scott Clark

The Psalms speak to our public life, singing the world God wants. God insists that public power be used for the well-being of the poor, the vulnerable, and the marginalized.Av Rev. Scott Clark

In the Psalms, we sing our life to God, and God sings our life with us – every distress on the way to deliverance, every lament into the wide expanse of liberation, every lonesome groan into singing together the songs we know by heart.Av Rev. Scott Clark

In psalms of liberation, we remember, hope, and move forward into God’s ongoing, liberating work in the world. As we join that work, what do those psalms require of us? What does Juneteenth require of us?Av Rev. Scott Clark

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.