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A Welcoming Church Family Exploring Progressive Christian Theology
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, Shine Curriculum

Message More Than Form

March 7, 2021
In these linked stories from Jesus's ministry in Jerusalem, we see the message: preaching sacrifice for others while using their sacrifice for your own ends is the opposite of holiness.
Preacher : Nathan Willard
Passage: Mark 11:15-19, Mark 12:38-44
Service Type: Sunday Worship
Plague Year, Shine Curriculum

Who is Righteous?

January 10, 2021
As Mark tells the story, the Pharisees in Levi's house assume that the people Jesus is eating with are not righteous. Jesus turns it around and questions their authority to…
Preacher : Nathan Willard
Passage: Mark 1:16-20, Mark 2:13-17, Mark 2:13-19
Service Type: Sunday Worship
Narrative Lectionary Year 2 (2019-20)

You Should Definitely Wash Your Hands

February 16, 2020
Sometimes, leaders say things that are good ideas, but don't necessarily bring us closer to God. Sometimes we have good ideas that don't bring us closer to God. Sometimes we…
Preacher : Nathan Willard
Passage: Mark 7:1-23
Service Type: Sunday Worship
Narrative Lectionary Year 4

Choosing Not to See

February 11, 2018
In John's account of Jesus's healing of the man born blind, we see the message of the transfiguration: yes, God does great works. Let us go down among the people,…
Preacher : Nathan Willard
Passage: John 9:1-41
Service Type: Sunday Worship
Narrative Lectionary Year 3

What Does it Mean to be a Christian?

January 29, 2017
We sometimes see Pharisees as needlessly attached to rules. But if we look around us at the debates in modern Christianity, we face the same challenges the Pharisees and Jesus…
Preacher : Nathan Willard
Passage: Luke 6:1-16
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

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