Week 1 -Worship & Prayer

The next five weeks will be a more practical sermon series. A list of things for us to do. Now, I’m not a rules person. That’s wrong, I am a rules person, I just think they are made to be broken. So, I need rules, to break rules. I do, however, believe in the power of goals and intentions, guidelines to support my personal growth. I believe in brushing my teeth twice a day, taking my vitamins every day, creating a budget monthly, not really rules but really good guidelines to build a beautiful life.

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This extravagant, beautiful love, this is our strength and our shield as we take this journey through living… it is this wild, extravagant, grace that we put our trust in, that gives us courage… that invites us to the dance floor to discover a joy beyond understanding. It is this extravagantly boundless love that invites us to become wild hearts ourselves, it is this vision of God’s wild heart that we, as a community, will strive to live into.

I can close my eye and put myself in that middle school gym, I can feel the presence of God dancing in total freedom, inviting me to join. “Come, join me…” God beckons, calls, invites… Invites us into this limitless, boundless love…

I have a choice. You have a choice. In little moments, big moments, you can sit it out. Or you can dance… 

I grew to expect those wild hearts.

I could feel them coming close. I could feel them gather by my side.

I could feel their fear and their courage.

I could feel their freedom and their commitment.

I could feel their depth and their lighthearted joy.

I could feel their scars and I could feel their light.

Join us for week three of our series on Pslam 28:7 - "In you, we find our courage." 

Naming courage. Defining courage. Looking to the life of Christ for moments of courage. Finding our courage in God’s love and grace. Practicing courage. Courage will define us as a community. That courage will look different at different times. Right now it looks like showing up in a parking lot, to be in community with people showing up online, and finding any way we can to connect with one another. And our call to courage will be doing our part to bring healing to our world. 

Join us for week two of our series on Pslam 28:7 - "Our Hearts Trust in You." 

After the invitation to worship… before the commitment to courageous discipleship… from the first note of the offertory where we take a moment to open our hands so we can see all that we have is God’s, and give back in gratitude, through prayer and song and scripture and sermon… to that moment when we are all one in the eating of bread and drinking of juice… that is the heart of worship. The liminal space when set aside life that we might be present here… The center. The core. The heart of worship…. “our hearts trust in you”

This is our preview episode! I recorded the sermon, then, off we went! As for liturgy and sermon - this week the church celebrates the wise men visiting Jesus, the last of the 12 days of Christmas.