This Sunday, I find myself drawn into a powerful and, I admit, unsettling story in Acts: a slave girl exploited for profit. As the story unfolds, we encounter prisoners singing in the dark, earthquakes, door cells opening, and jailers asking big questions about what it all means.

As I sit with this text, I can’t help but think about those in our own time who are detained, separated from their families, or living under the shadow of systems that confine and control. The world still knows many kinds of captivity, and I feel that tension as I read this story.

At the same time, this story opens a deeper question not only about the prisons around us but also the ones within us. I wonder what holds us captive. Fear, anxiety, numbness, the pressure to perform, or that quiet sense that something isn’t right but we don’t quite know how to name it?

And still, in the midst of all this, I hear a simple and surprising word: freedom is not something we achieve, but something God is already bringing to life. Even in the darkest places I trust that the Spirit is still at work, loosening chains, opening doors, and inviting us into a deeper freedom.

I hope you’ll join me this Sunday as we listen for God’s liberating movement in our world and in our own lives. I look forward to seeing you.

This Sunday, we’ll explore the powerful story of Saul’s transformation in Acts 9, a moment when everything changes for him: when blindness gives way to sight, and when a life is turned toward grace. I wonder if you've ever had a transformation like that?

As we gather, we’ll reflect on the ways God still meets us on the road, inviting us to see differently, love more deeply, and live more faithfully.

In recognition of Earth Day, we’ll also weave in a spirit of creation care considering how our eyes might be opened not only to God’s presence in our lives, but to the sacredness of the world around us.

Where might God be inviting you to see with new eyes?

Join us for worship this Sunday as we listen, reflect, and open ourselves to transformation.

This Sunday when we gather, we will still be celebrating Easter (it was just a week ago!) but our focus will change a bit. This week it will be through the experience of the Apostle Thomas, who is famous for doubting the story of the resurrection. It is not until he sees Jesus with his own eyes and touches his wounds with his own hands, that he believes.

Perhaps you can identify with the doubt that Thomas sheds on the celebration. Maybe you too have felt unsure at times about your faith. I wonder if for some of you, Thomas’ doubt is the Easter story you need. For doubt is often a part of our journey of faith. And for many, like Thomas, doubt is the experience we need to be able to find hope in the resurrected Jesus.

I invite you to join us this Sunday, whether you are singing Alleluia with gusto, or if somewhere inside of yourself you are feeling some reservations. Or even if you cannot find a way to profess it at all. Wherever you are on your journey of faith, you are welcome to come and be with us.

I’ve noticed a lot of anticipation around Palm Sunday and Easter festivities this year. There’s a kind of hunger for joy, and that makes a lot of sense to me. We are living in a time marked by uncertainty and strain. Even in just these past months, we’ve seen violence, economic anxiety, war, and a lingering sense of unease.

In moments like this, it can feel almost disingenuous to speak of joy or goodness, as if we’re ignoring what is real. And yet, this is precisely the heart of the gospel we are called to proclaim: that even in the midst of death, there is resurrection. Even in a season of sorrow, there is still joy.

This evening at 7:00 p.m., we will gather for our Good Friday service: a space to sit honestly with the weight and discomfort of the world as it is. We are fortunate to be able to gather with friends from Southminster Presbyterian and Kansas City UCC. And then, on Sunday at 10:15 a.m., we will gather again to celebrate what is also true: that new life is possible, that hope can rise, and that resurrection meets us wherever we are on the journey.

I hope you will join us for this sacred movement through Holy Week. It will be a gift to share it with you.

As we enter into the sacred rhythm of Holy Week, we invite you to join

us this Sunday for Palm Sunday: a moment of celebration, reflection,

and deepening awareness as we journey toward Easter. We are especially honored to welcome our guest preacher, Rev. Dr. Heike Springhart, Bishop of the Protestant Church in Baden, Germany. Her presence among us is a gift, offering a global perspective on faith and a reminder of the wider body of Christ to which we belong. She is joined by her traveling colleagues, the Rev. Drs. Jens Adam and Lisa Wolfe.

Palm Sunday holds both joy and tension - the waving branches and the

shadow of the cross - and this gathering invites us to enter more

fully into that sacred paradox. Together, through worship and

community, we will deepen our awareness of this holy season, opening

our hearts to the story that leads us toward resurrection hope. We

hope you will join us for this meaningful and Spirit-filled morning.

This Sunday we sit with a familiar story from the Gospel of John that still has a way of catching us off guard. A crowd gathers, ready to judge, ready to act… and then Jesus bends down, writes in the dust, and says, “Let anyone among you who is without sin be the first to throw a stone.”

We all carry stones sometimes: quiet judgments, old grievances, the need to be right, the temptation to draw lines between “us” and “them.” And we also know what it feels like to stand exposed, hoping someone will choose mercy.

This Sunday, we’ll reflect together on what it means to let go of the stones we carry and what kind of community becomes possible when we do.

This Sunday we’ll reflect on a passage from Deuteronomy 24 that calls God’s people to care for widows, orphans, and immigrants... the most vulnerable members of society. It’s a message we hear again and again throughout scripture. Care for those in need. Remember that your neighbor’s wellbeing is bound up with your own. And yet… here we are. Still struggling to live it.

If this command has echoed across the centuries, why is it so hard for us to actually follow through? What gets in the way? And what does faithfulness look like when good intentions alone don’t seem to be enough?

This Sunday we’ll wrestle honestly with these questions together. We won't find easy answers, but we may discover a hope that our tradition's ancient wisdom might help us imagine a more compassionate way of living in the world.

Wherever you find yourself on the journey: hopeful, weary, or somewhere in between, you are welcome here. Join us this Sunday as we explore what the good news might look like when it calls us to care for the vulnerable.

On this third Sunday of Lent, the good news we celebrate is “Together the Impossible is Possible.”

When we come together on Sunday we will read Mark’s account of the story you have probably heard before – the feeding of the 5,000. This story speaks to us of miracles. It tells how with just a few loaves of bread and a couple of fish, Jesus fed a crowd. It tells a story about how the people who hungered to hear the good news, were nourished not only spiritually, but also physically.

This is one of my favorite stories in the Bible. First of all, as a huge fan of a potluck, I see it as Jesus throwing the first church potluck in history! But also, it’s a story of the miracles that can happen when people come together with their hearts focused on the good. It speaks of how we are stronger together. It speaks to us of how the abundance of God is poured out, when we gather.

So let us gather this Sunday. Let us hear the story again. And let us wonder and dream about what miraculous, seemingly impossible, things we can do.

I love a pancake feed. Gathering in a fellowship hall that smells like butter and syrup, laughing with one another, stacking our plates high, and trying my hand at flipping...fun (and precarious!)

This Sunday, as we hear the story of Lazarus being called out of the tomb, we’re reminded that the good news is not abstract or sentimental. Like a meal enjoyed with family and friends, it is alive. It brings breath back into places that feel sealed shut. In a world thick with bad news, Jesus cries, “Come out!” and we answer.

This Lent, we’ll explore how the good news is truly good: grounding like roots reaching deep into rich soil, and alive like Lazarus stepping into the light. We’ll gather around tables and in worship, around pancakes and prayer, to let these stories take root in us.

Join us this Sunday for worship, pancakes, and conversation, and for the kind of hope that refuses to stay buried.

This Sunday, we gather with the story of Jesus healing a man born blind, a story that invites us to consider how we see, what keeps us from seeing clearly, and how grace can open our eyes in unexpected ways. We live in a world that is quick to judge and divide, and this text reminds us that God’s work is often revealed through compassion, curiosity, and courage.

Join us for worship as we reflect together on what it means to move from blindness to sight, from assumption to understanding, and from isolation to community.