Thanksgiving Sunday

November 24, 2024

CALL TO WORSHIP
Praise is due to you, O God, in Zion; happy are those who live close to you.
We shall be satisfied with the goodness of your house.
You crown the year with your bounty; the pastures overflow; the hills are girded with joy.

The meadows deck themselves with grain; the whole world sings together for joy.

26th Sunday after Pentecost

November 17, 2024

CALL TO WORSHIP
Let all things living bless the Lord, the great God!
Bless the One who is clothed with honor and majesty!
God makes springs gush forth in the valleys and flow through the hills.
They give drink to wild animals.

25th Sunday after Pentecost

November 10, 2024

CALL TO WORSHIP
Christ is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation.
All things have been created through him and for him.
He himself is before all things
And in Christ all things are held together.
Now to him who by the power at work within us is able to accomplish far more than all we can ask or imagine—

On This Mountain

An All Saints Invitation

If you read books like Ezra and Nehemiah, the picture you’re going to get of God is a very judgmental. And so the notion you’re going to get of God’s people is a very narrow one—one limited to a snapshot of Israel as it was at a single point in its history, when it was small in number and ethnically pure. In fact, according to Ezra the scribe and Nehemiah the governor, immigrants were to be cleansed from the land,

All Saints

November 1 or November 3, 2024

CALL TO WORSHIP
The earth is the Lord’s and all that is in it— 

The world, and those who live in it. 

Who shall ascend the hill of the Lord, and who shall stand in his holy place? 

Those with clean hands and pure hearts, who do not embrace falsehood 

They will receive blessing from the Lord,

Semper Reformanda

Sermon for Reformation Sunday
October 27, 2024

There are a lot of small churches like ours: historic churches in the middle of town, churches that were once bigger than we are now. Already struggling, when covid hit four years ago, they just weren’t prepared. My home church was one such church. When I was in high school, it had over 800 members. It had dwindled quite a bit over the years and was just barely hanging on in 2020.