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Your Story Jan 27, 2020

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This week, Andrea kicks off the section of Learning to Live that focuses on story – our story, God’s story, and how those intersect. Knowing our own stories enables us to know ourselves. She explores how stories both form and transform us, and reminds us that our stories are not static, but continuous. [Matthew 4:18-22, John 21:1-7, Acts 2:37-41]

An Invitation Jan 20, 2020

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Pastor Watson continues the Learning to Live series with a look at how Jesus invites us to spend time with him, since it’s relationships that lead to transformation. New life starts with an invitation, a conversation, a relationship. This invitation from Jesus is extended to us so that we may then extend it to others. [John 1:35-42]

What Do You Want? Jan 13, 2020

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Jesus calls us to follow him — because he knows how to live a true, full, fulfilled life — but he always meets us where we are. Pastor Justin Fung kicks off a new series — and introduces a church-wide experience: Learning to Live — by inviting us to be honest in answering a question that Jesus asked: “What do you want?” [Matthew 6:25-34]

Epiphany & Endurance: Lessons from the Magi Jan 06, 2020

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Pastor Watson starts off 2020 with a look at the lessons we can learn from the Magi. As we consider the things we’ll love—and the things we’ll pursue—this year, the wise men offer wisdom on how to run, fight, and wait in order to bring glory to God. [Matthew 2:1-12]

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**An Advent Future** Dec 23, 2019
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Pastor Watson wraps up our series on Anticipating Advent by looking toward a future where Christ fulfills all that he began. Our Kids City Director, Nikki Wiggins, reminds us of the best gift we ever received at Christmas. [Isaiah 61:1-6]

Image result for peaceable kingdom — **The Second Coming of Christ** Dec 15, 2019
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For the third Sunday of Advent, Dana Cunliffe preaches on how Advent exists in both the past, the present, and the future. At Christmas, it’s natural for us to celebrate what happened 2,000 years ago, and also how Jesus is present with us now. But Dana highlights how important it is to remember and anticipate the future advent – the second coming of Christ. [Isaiah 40:1-11]

“Peaceable Kingdom” by Edward Hicks, via Wikimedia

Peace and Gathering Dec 09, 2019

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In Isaiah 11, we find a people desperately waiting for the return of their King. Isaiah is anticipating the arrival of a King who will bring peace and gather the people. Jesus is this long-awaited King. Pastor Watson asks what it may look like now, to say yes to Jesus and the advent that we’re anticipating in our own hearts and minds. [Isaiah 11:1-9]

May You Find a Light Dec 02, 2019

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Pastor Justin Fung introduces our Anticipating Advent series, which will explore the prophecies about Jesus in the book of Isaiah. As Christians, we celebrate Christmas as Jesus’ first Advent, when the kingdom broke into reality; but we look forward to his second Advent, his return, when he promises that all things will be made new. In this sermon, Pastor Justin asks, “What are you waiting for, and what sustains you in the wait?” He unpacks the vision of hope in Isaiah 9 and urges us to actively anticipate Advent this Christmas season. [Isaiah 9:2, 6-7]

“The grace and the impatience to wait” by Walter Brueggemann In our secret yearnings
we wait for your coming,
and in our grinding despair
we doubt that you will.
And in this privileged place
we are surrounded by witnesses who yearn more than do we
and by those who despair more deeply than do we.
Look upon your church and its pastors
in this season of hope
which runs so quickly to fatigue
and in this season of yearning
which becomes so easily quarrelsome.
Give us the grace and the impatience
to wait for your coming to the bottom of our toes,
to the edges of our fingertips.
We do not want our several worlds to end.
Come in your power
and come in your weakness
in any case
and make all things new.
Amen.

Ruth 4: Resilience, Risk-taking and Redemption Nov 25, 2019

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In the final sermon in our series on Ruth, Pastor Lisa Rodriguez-Watson asks, “What does it mean to live faithfully forward?” We often believe the lies and labels that people give us because of our circumstances or things that have happened to us, but God wants us to see ourselves the way God sees us. Despite her background and challenges, Ruth was full of resilience and determination. She took faithful risks, leading to her redemption. As a foremother to Jesus, Ruth points the way toward him. [Ruth 4:9-17]

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