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A Welcoming Church Family Exploring Progressive Christian Theology
Women's Lectionary for the Whole Church

The Eternal Christ

November 20, 2022
As we think about Jesus as the eternal sovereign, we remember that this promise came about in times of distress, and that it can provide not only challenge to those…
Preacher : Nathan Willard
Passage: 2 Kings 24:8-17
Service Type: Sunday Worship
Women's Lectionary for the Whole Church

The Day of the Saints

November 6, 2022
On All Saints, we remember the hopes we have of a future beyond our understanding, and in which the final barriers between God and ourselves are removed. And we pause…
Preacher : Nathan Willard
Passage: Isaiah 25:1,4a,6-10a
Service Type: Sunday Worship
Women's Lectionary for the Whole Church

Reformed and Reforming

October 30, 2022
The protestant reformation, begun in response to exploitation of the poor, reminds us to always look for opportunities to hold ourselves accountable to the demands of justice.
Preacher : Nathan Willard
Passage: James 5:1-6
Service Type: Sunday Worship
Women's Lectionary for the Whole Church

Radical Absurdity

October 23, 2022
Jesus lays out what it looks like to forgive as we ought to forgive. In his trying examples, he highlights all the de-escalation we can do much more easily.
Preacher : Nathan Willard
Passage: Matthew 5:38-42
Service Type: Sunday Worship
Women's Lectionary for the Whole Church

The Spirit and the Common Good

October 16, 2022
The Holy Spirit empowers us all in different ways. When we are most alone, know that the Holy Spirit remembered you, too.
Preacher : Nathan Willard
Passage: 1 Corinthians 12:4-11
Service Type: Sunday Worship
Women's Lectionary for the Whole Church

Consent and Destruction

October 9, 2022
Today's text is graphic, painful, and destructive, concerning sexual violence against Tamar by her half-brother Amnon. When looking at this too-familiar act and responses to it from 2500 years ago,…
Preacher : Nathan Willard
Passage: 2 Samuel 13:1-16
Service Type: Sunday Worship
Women's Lectionary for the Whole Church

You Are What You Are, Not What You Eat

October 2, 2022
In the election season, as we become focused on the group we are a part of and our righteousness, it is important to remember that it is what comes out…
Preacher : Nathan Willard
Passage: Matthew 15:10-20
Service Type: Sunday Worship
Plague Year, Women's Lectionary for the Whole Church

What Are You Afraid Of?

September 18, 2022
Hebrews 2 illustrates what it means that Jesus was fully human, and why it was important that he was.
Preacher : Nathan Willard
Passage: Hebrews 2:10-15
Service Type: Sunday Worship
Plague Year, Women's Lectionary for the Whole Church

Shifting Contexts

September 11, 2022
If only we'd listened to Paul's admonitions about judgement in Romans 2! These verses not only lay out the ways we could have avoided millennia of antisemitism, but also how…
Preacher : Nathan Willard
Passage: Romans 2:12-16
Service Type: Sunday Worship
Plague Year, Women's Lectionary for the Whole Church

Forgotten Women in Plain Sight

September 4, 2022
The story of Abigail and Nabal reminds us that the prophets and scribes of old often remembered the women, left off the lists of kings, who made the events of…
Preacher : Nathan Willard
Passage: 1 Samuel 25:14-43
Service Type: Sunday Worship
Plague Year, Women's Lectionary for the Whole Church

Graceful Responses

August 28, 2022
Romans 12 contains Paul's illustration of what he thinks it looks like to embody the grace we have received, leaving us with some of his most famous and memorable turns…
Preacher : Nathan Willard
Passage: Romans 12:9-21
Service Type: Sunday Worship
Plague Year, Women's Lectionary for the Whole Church

Parking Insecurities

August 21, 2022
The dichotomy of insecurity and inspiration that came into Jersualem's royal household serves as a model for our reactions to disruption throughout our lives--including in the national parks.
Preacher : Nathan Willard
Passage: 1 Samuel 17:55-18:9
Service Type: Sunday Worship
Plague Year, Women's Lectionary for the Whole Church

You Know This is a Terrible Idea, Right?

July 17, 2022
As a people, we so often want to avoid the burden of making decisions. God is there to remind us that we're never alone when we do.
Preacher : Nathan Willard
Passage: 1 Samuel 8
Service Type: Sunday Worship
Plague Year, Women's Lectionary for the Whole Church

The Priesthood of All Believers

July 10, 2022
The book of 1 Samuel reminds us that power tends to corrupt. One antidote to the corruption of power is the vesting of it in all of God's people.
Preacher : Nathan Willard
Passage: 1 Samuel 2:11-26
Service Type: Sunday Worship
Plague Year, Women's Lectionary for the Whole Church

God in the Face of Unreasonable Expectations

June 26, 2022
Throughout the Bible, we see women's stories subsumed into the stories of their sons and husbands. Taking them independently, we can glimpse pictures of the ways power is enforced upon…
Preacher : Nathan Willard
Passage: 1 Samuel 1:1-18
Service Type: Sunday Worship
Plague Year, Women's Lectionary for the Whole Church

Caring For All

June 19, 2022
The church described early in the Book of Acts exemplified caring for all. For them, it meant the sacrifice by those who had much to create equality among the whole…
Preacher : Nathan Willard
Service Type: Sunday Worship
Plague Year, Women's Lectionary for the Whole Church

The Trinitarian Congregational Church

June 12, 2022
What is the Holy Trinity, exactly, and why is it important to understand? One reason is that it informs our understanding of God as beyond the bounds of our easy…
Preacher : Nathan Willard
Passage: Hosea 11:1-4
Service Type: Sunday Worship
Church Identity 2022, Plague Year, Women's Lectionary for the Whole Church

The Exploration of Progressive Praxis

May 8, 2022
Progressive Christian Theology means learning from the stories in the Bible that life is complicated and messy, and that the only thing in front of us is to understand the…
Preacher : Nathan Willard
Passage: Romans 6:5-11
Service Type: Sunday Worship

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