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#58. The Third Sunday of Easter - Rev. Shane Page May 05, 2020

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This week we will take a look at the appointed gospel for this Sunday from Luke 24: Jesus’s appearance to two disciples walking to the village of Emmaus. It is one of the most beloved stories in all the gospels. There is, however, important lessons contained within its winsome sentences, which I will hope to draw out this week. Have your bible ready and we will walk through the story together, pondering a few of its themes.

#57. The Second Sunday of Easter - Rev. Jim Humphries Apr 25, 2020

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In our online worship service this weekend, we will look at how the disciples spent their time in the hours and days following Jesus’ emergence from the tomb. While Easter is a time of great joy and celebration for us today, those initial hours after Jesus’ resurrection brought fear and trepidation to his closest followers. We read in John’s gospel how Jesus returned to his friends to address their feelings of anxiety. How might Jesus reach us today in our own times of fear and uncertainty? Read John 20: 19-31 to prepare for this Sunday’s worship.

#56. Easter Sunday - Rev. Shane Page Apr 18, 2020

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#55. Rev. Shane Page - Fifth Sunday of Lent Apr 09, 2020

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For the fifth Sunday of Lent, the church appoints as the gospel reading on the great tales in the Gospel of John: the raising of Lazarus in chapter 11. This Sunday I will make a few observations about this story and how it may very well be a timely word for our current situation.

#54. Be Thou My Vision - Rev. Shane Page Mar 22, 2020

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This Sunday we will worship together online. The live stream will begin at 9:30am. We have, for obvious reasons, put on hiatus our Lenten sermon series on the seven deadly sins and the seven life-giving virtues. This Sunday and for the next few Sundays we will revisit the appointed readings of the week. The appointed reading for this week concerns Jesus’s healing of the blind man in John chapter 9. What we will find in this passage is a great spiritual truth and perhaps even a word of consolation for our time. Please know I, the other pastors, and staff remain in prayer for you, your families, our church, our nation, and our world. We encourage you to take seriously the precautions advised by our local and national leaders and to care for one another in an especial way in the weeks ahead. If you need a pastor, please email us or call our pastor-on-call number. The church down through the centuries has faced wars, pandemics, famines, threats, and fightings within and fears without. Let us, as did the saints and martyrs of old, persist in our faithfulness to Christ, looking confidently to him, and abandon ourselves to God’s providence, trusting the good he will create from the uncertainties of this time

#53. The Deadly Sins: Sloth - Rev. Shane Page Mar 15, 2020

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This Sunday we will press on in our sermon series on the seven deadly sins (and the seven life-giving virtues!). This week we will discuss what may be the most misunderstood of the seven vices: Sloth. Recall once again that all the vices become vices through ongoing habits. A vice is the end result of habitual sinful acts. Once something becomes a habit, it shapes our character until we simply do it without thinking about it. We are, in many ways, the sum total of all our habits. That's why for every vice, which comes from a bad habit, we need to oppose it through its opposite virtue, which comes from a good habit. Only good habits can offset bad habits. All good habits, of course, require effort on our part, which will help explain why sloth makes the cut as constituting such a deadly vice. This Sunday, then, we will ponder the vice of sloth and then contemplate its opposite virtue.

#52. The Deadly Sins: Greed - Rev. Shane Page Mar 09, 2020

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This Sunday we continue our study on the seven deadly sins. This week we come to the fourth capital vice on the list: Greed. Jesus has more to say about greed than any other dysfunction in the life of the soul. Yet for every vice there is, as we have seen, an opposite virtue whose graces can offset the vice's influence. There is hope and good news as always, but swimming against the tide of greed does take effort, discipline, and commitment. This week let's dig in to the vice of Greed so that we can learn how to dig out of it.

#51. The Deadly Sins: Anger - Rev. Jim Humphries Mar 02, 2020

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This Sunday in worship, we will continue our sermon series on the Seven Deadly Sins, looking specifically at the sin of Wrath. Everyone gets angry; even Jesus, as we will hear more about on Sunday. But what is it that makes our anger a sin before God; and is it always? And what is the remedy for our anger? How do we live in a world that is so filled with anger, hatred and division? Read Matthew 5: 21-26 and Ephesians 4: 25-32 to see how Jesus and Paul address the topic of anger, and join us Sunday to hear how you might use this Lenten season to work on your own challenges.

#50. The Deadly Sins: Envy - Rev. Alexis Coleman Mar 02, 2020

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#49. The Deadly Sins: Pride - Rev. Shane Page Feb 24, 2020

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This Sunday we will begin a new sermon series—just before and in time for Lent, which starts on February 26, on what church tradition calls the seven deadly or capital vices. There is no one particular section in the Bible that catalogues these seven vices on a page, but the Scriptures do refer to them or (at least alludes to them) throughout: pride, envy, wrath, greed, sloth, gluttony, and lust. These seven predispositions constitute the soil from which grows all kinds of dysfunction, be it personal dysfunction, social, or spiritual. For every one of these seven vices, however, there exist seven virtues that can, through God’s grace and our discipline, offset their influence. That means there’s hope and good news! This Sunday we’ll start things off with what Christian tradition pinpoints as the chief vice of them all, the root vice from which grows all the other vices: Pride! Start thinking now of what you may wish to give up for Lent!

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