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A Welcoming Church Family Exploring Progressive Christian Theology

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A Welcoming Church Family Exploring Progressive Christian Theology
Ghosting God, Plague Year

Inspiring Sir Robin

August 2, 2020
Jonah the anti-prophet shows us that running away from our jobs and pretending the world we live in does not exist is not effective. The sailors show us that doing…
Preacher : Nathan Willard
Passage: Jonah 1
Service Type: Sunday Worship
Plague Year, The Whole of the Thing

Delighting Decrees

June 7, 2020
Loving all the torah, studying it, meditating it, understanding our feelings over the passages we hate to love and love to hate, and love to love, and bring comfort, and…
Preacher : Nathan Willard
Passage: Psalm 119
Service Type: Sunday Worship
Narrative Lectionary Year 1 (2018-19)

The Little Choices

March 24, 2019
Matthew's recounting of Jesus's teachings about discipleship continue with a troubling example of welcome and rejection at a wedding feast. Once we are part of a Christian community, how do…
Preacher : Nathan Willard
Passage: Matthew 22:1-14
Service Type: Sunday Worship
Narrative Lectionary Year 4, Speaking Christian

Righteous Justice

March 11, 2018
What is right action? What is righteousness? In the midst of Jesus's trial, we see people representing the power in Jerusalem all around him, afraid to take ownership of their…
Preacher : Nathan Willard
Passage: John 18:28-40
Service Type: Sunday Worship
Telling Our Stories

Sharing a Common Belief in an Ideal

August 7, 2016
Sometimes we need to take a step back and ask what brings us together, and where it is taking us. Where did we come from, and where are we going?
Preacher : Nathan Willard
Passage: Luke 5:27-31
Service Type: Sunday Worship
2016 Church Identity

Stewards Together

April 24, 2016
On the Sunday after Earth Day, how does our Progressive Christian Theology bear on our stewardship of creation?
Preacher : Nathan Willard
Passage: 1 Corinthians 1:10-18
Service Type: Sunday Worship

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