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A Welcoming Church Family Exploring Progressive Christian Theology
End of Psalms, Plague Year

Boy, That Escalated Quickly

September 19, 2021
Psalm 149 shows the abrupt change we sometimes have when our proclamations of praise and conception of ourselves as servants of God encounter our inconvenience, defensiveness, and reactivity.
Passage: Psalm 149
Service Type: Sunday Worship
Narrative Lectionary Year 2 (2019-20), Plague Year

Caring in the Name of Christ

May 10, 2020
Paul complaining about division in Christianity is a little funny to careful readers, but his warning to avoid tribalism in our thinking is sound.
Preacher : Nathan Willard
Passage: 1 Corinthians 1:10-18
Service Type: Sunday Worship
Church Identity 2019, Narrative Lectionary Year 1 (2018-19)

Caring Within (2019)

May 19, 2019
On our Sunday recognizing servant leaders and graduates, we talk about our core identity as a church that Cares Within. Sometimes that means listening, sometimes that means leading, sometimes that…
Preacher : Nathan Willard
Passage: Romans 1:8-17
Service Type: Sunday Worship
Narrative Lectionary Year 4, Speaking Christian

God With Us (2018)

March 25, 2018
All of Christianity goes through the cross. The cross is not the end of the story. The suffering of Christ is not the whole of Christ's story. But Christ's story…
Preacher : Nathan Willard
Passage: John 19:16b-22
Service Type: Sunday Worship

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