Christmas Eve | Emmanuel: Christ is With Us | John 1-1-5 | Rev. Barrett Owen | 12.24.2025 Sermon Synopsis - The Christ in-breaking changes the world forever. Never again will humans feel or be separated from God. The God of the Universe has stepped down into time and space and because of this . . . we have a future in which we are never alone. Christ is always with us.

Emmanuel: Love is With Us | Isaiah 11:1-10 | Rev. Barrett Owen | 12.21.2025 Sermon Synopsis: To be Christian is to embrace and share that love with the world. We can do this because we know and feel that this love is first with us. Israel felt this love, and we can too.

Emmanuel: Joy is With Us | Isaiah 35:1-10 | Rev. Barrett Owen | 12.14.2025 To be Christian is to embrace and share that love with the world. We can do this because we know and feel that this joy is first with us. Israel felt this joy, and we can too.

Emmanuel: Peace is With Us | Isaiah 2:1-5 | Rev. Barrett Owen | 12.7.2025 To be Christian is to embrace and share peace with the world. We can do this because we know and feel that this peace is first with us. Israel felt this peace, and we can too.

Emmanuel: Hope is With Us | John 1:1-5 | Rev. Barrett Owen | 11.30.2025 To be Christian is to embrace and share hope with the world. We can do this because we know and feel that this hope is first with us. Israel felt this hope, and we can too.

November 23 | Psalm 100 | As for Me and My House . . . We’ll Choose Gratitude On this Thanksgiving Week, it is important to see that our faith must abound with gratitude. Our faith, our church, our ways of operating as a religious institution is present because of God’s steadfastness and love. When we gather, we can’t help but be grateful. Gratitude can be chosen even when emotions are steeped in hurt or resentment. The effort to choose gratitude, especially in difficult times, strengthens our spiritual resolve.

November 16 | Psalm 1 | As for Me and My House . . . We’ll Have a Rule of Life Psalm 1 serves as an introduction to the entire book of Psalms, presenting a fundamental choice between two paths: Path of the “wicked” and the path of “delighting in God’s law.” It is a blueprint for living a blessed, disciplined, and fruitful life. This blueprint in Christianity is a called a Rule of Life. It is the blueprint of what our spiritual lives must include.

November 9 | Psalm 65 | As for Me and My House . . . We’ll Show Hospitality Psalm 65 speaks powerfully of God's hospitality toward people and the earth. The psalm is a song of praise and thanksgiving for God's provision and grace, which can inspire and inform our own practice of hospitality towards one another. As God treated us and the world, so we should treat one another.

November 2 | All Saints Day | As for Me and My House . . . We’ll Remember | Psalm 42 On this All Saints Day, we are challenged to remember. Memory is a spiritual discipline. Memory is not a neutral act. For Christians, the interpretive principle for memory should be Christ. Remembering can involve reflecting on challenging experiences and processing them with God. This practice admits our inability to handle the past on our own and strengthens our dependence on Christ.

October 26 | As for Me and My House . . . We’ll Keep the Sabbath | Psalm 127 This short psalm reminds us that all the nonstop effort in the world is in vain if we do not learn to rest. Verse 2 says, “In vain. You rise early and stay up late, toiling for food to eat—for he grants sleep to those he loves.” In other words, we must be people who build in rest to our work. The psalmist sings it. It’s one of the ten commandments. It’s baked into the rhythm of life from Genesis 1. It is the most repeated commandment in the Old Testament. We should take it more seriously.