1 Samuel 7:2-17 Pastor Chris Tweitmann Have you ever been to Washington D.C.? It is a beautiful, bustling city. For me, one of the most compelling things about Washington D.C. are all of the distinctive and evocative monuments and memorials that have been placed all throughout our nation’s capital. Over the last two centuries, these monuments and memorials have been […]

1 Samuel 5:1-12 Drew Williams A couple years ago, I fell into the Black Friday trap. I had seen some deals listed, and I knew that I wanted to pick up a few things for around the house. Plus, I knew that I wanted a few tools. So, a couple guy friends and I met […]

1 Samuel 4:1-22 Pastor Chris Tweitmann   We all have fears – encountering things or finding ourselves in potential situations that make us – at best, nervous or worse, extremely anxious. There are our fears and but then there is our worst fear. The envisioning of our nightmare scenario – when anything and everything goes […]

1 Samuel 3:1-4:1 Pastor Chris Tweitmann   Have you ever been somewhere and suddenly thought you heard someone calling your name? You turned around looking for that voice, perhaps you even answered out loud, but in the end, you found yourself unable to figure where that voice came from. If there were other people nearby, […]

1 Samuel 2:12 – 36 Pastor Chris Tweitmann     As we continue our new sermon series on the book of 1 Samuel, we address an ongoing problem in much of human leadership – power abuse. From today’s narrative, we will be specifically focusing on the abuse of power by spiritual leaders. It’s not a […]

1 Samuel 1 – 2:11 Pastor Chris Tweitmann   Today we begin a new sermon series rooted in two books that in truth are just two parts of a single unified story. Coming out of the Old Testament, the focus of this series, the books of 1 and 2 Samuel, as they were written originally […]

Matthew 5:14 – 16 Pastor Chris Tweitmann   For most of the rest of the world, Christmas but a distant memory. But within the Christian tradition, at least for the last fifteen hundred years, the celebration continues beyond December 25th for twelve days – a tradition from which is, by the way, the song “The […]

Matthew 2:1-12 Drew Williams, Pastoral Intern   Congratulations! We’ve made it to the end of the year! And now that we’ve made it through Christmas, I’ve got a confession to make: I don’t really like giving gifts. Don’t get me wrong, I love giving to people. I love showing them love with a thoughtful or […]

Luke 2:1-20 Pastor Chris Tweitmann   At last, it is Christmas Eve. The earth falls silent for the time has come. For weeks now we’ve been pacing back and forth in the waiting room of Advent, in anticipation of a delivery. Other gifts have been bought or arrived in the mail. They sit wrapped, waiting to […]

Pastor Chris Tweitmann Revelation 21-22   This is our final week of the Advent season. Christmas is almost here! And we’ve been marking the time, by reflecting on one of the repeated ways that the Bible calls for us to view the coming of Jesus, of Immanuel – God with us – through the image […]