We are joined by Carol Nichols who begins our new series with her devotion "Imagine a World with More #Compassion".

Scripture: Matthew 25:31-44

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Senior Pastor Colton Lott preaches his sermon "Epiphany and Epiphanies" on Epiphany Sunday. 

"What if we had an epiphany and enjoyed the gift of gold and had riches to spare like kings? What if we had an epiphany and enjoyed the gift of frankincense and saw each other as children's of God, little bearers of the holy one? What if we had an epiphany and enjoyed the gift of myrrh and remembered that we are fragile and sacred so we better not waste anytime?" 

Scripture: Matthew 2:1-12

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Senior Pastor Colton Lott continues our Advent series "Christmas Journey Interrupted" with his homily "Interrupted by a Good News".

"My friends the Christmas miracle is not only that God has come, but that God has come in the midst of all this to these. The miracle is not just that God showed up, but also that God showed up in a little struggling family unsure of how they'd make ends meet. God showed up to low wage workers that felt like they would never get ahead as they lay counting their sheep. God showed up in a weird family where it was hard to kind of explain how everyone was related but they all just kind of made it work. God showed up in a small town that no one in the big city would have heard about much less thought about. God showed up not out of obligation but as gift."

Scripture: Luke 2:1-20

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Senior Pastor Colton Lott wraps up our Advent series "Christmas Journey Interrupted" with his sermon "Interrupted by a Child".

"We celebrate Christmas each year not because Jesus needs a birthday party, hate to break it to ya, but because we need to remember how to sing this song. Especially when we can scarcely believe that God would interrupt our lives and our world with something as good as salvation. We need to remember how to sing this song when we can hardly stand to hope that God really will rescue us and all from the harm, and the hurt, and the despair that we regularly inflict on one another."

Scripture: Isaiah 52:7-10

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Senior Pastor Colton Lott continues our Advent series "Christmas Journey Interrupted" with his sermon "Interrupted by a Sign".

"Sometimes God literally shows up as a child who teaches right from wrong, rescues us from our sins, and will surely return again. And sometimes God shows up in kind church secretaries who assure me, and you, and all that we do belong here and that we do belong to God and that together we have more than enough to be a pretty good church."

Scripture: Isaiah 7:10-16

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Senior Pastor Colton Lott continues our Advent series "Christmas Journey Interrupted" with his sermon "Interrupted by the Spirit with Peace".

"...digging into the hard work of forgiveness, to do as Howard Thurman said in, 'restoring a lost harmony', so that our Christmas gift to ourselves is peace between us and someone else. Yes, just as people throughout the centuries have found themselves we found ourselves waiting, but let's actively wait. And as we do so, maybe we will make our way slowly to God's holy mountain where we will be interrupted by the Spirit with peace once and for all. Real peace, durable peace." 

Scripture: Isaiah 11:1-10

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Senior Pastor Colton Lott begins our worship series "Christmas Journey Interrupted" with his homily "Interrupted on the Mountain with Hope".

"Isaiah, the Christmas story, the US Coastguard all tell of times when God interrupts the world as is is to surprise us with hope, a mountain of goodness that catches us off guard. Perhaps you need this surprising God to show up so that you can survive, so that you can be rescued, so that you can be saved."

Scripture: Isaiah 2:1-5

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Senior Pastor Colton Lott preaches this Reign of Christ Sunday with his sermon "Endings and Beginnings".

"Like Zechariah we await this coming of a mighty savior who will finally save us from the hands of our enemies of homeless and want, of violence, of addiction, of subordination, of tyranny, of hurt, and fear. We still await that day that he sang about. When the promise comes true and we serve God without fear and holiness and righteousness of God's presence all of our days. But first we have to make the path straight. It requires someone to make the path straight for the ways of God. Perhaps Someones. Perhaps even us." 

Scripture: Luke 1:68-79

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Today we are joined by guest speaker Rev. Dr. Lisa Barnett as she preaches her sermon "Community Service". 

Scripture: Luke 6:20-31

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Senior Pastor Colton Lott closes our worship series "In the Fullness of Time" with his sermon "Living and Dying".

"The wisdom of the heart leads us to the hope which God has called us too. The hope of a God who is over all things...far above all rule and authority and power and dominion. Above every name that is named. The hope of a God who is over all diagnoses, a God who is over all injustices, over all elections, over all storms when they strike. The hope of a God who is making a church making a body making us God's body. The hope of a God who has gathered us together. The hope of a God who is THE holy one, and is making us holy ones, making us saints. If only it was that easy to keep hope..."

Scripture: Ephesians 1:11-23

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