MVP Message

Preacher: Grace Rogers, Howard and Mary Martin Ministry Intern

Scriptures: Jeremiah 1:4-10 and Luke 1:26-39

Join us in worship this third week of Advent as we explore the ways God has called and used the "little guys" in the past before imagining where God may be calling us now. 

Preacher: Rev. Dr. Donna Claycomb Sokol, Pastor

Scriptures: Isaiah 43:19-21 and Matthew 11:1-11

Join us this week on the second Sunday of Advent as we explore how trembling hope can still carry us, and how God is still moving even when we cannot see the fruits of our labor.

Preacher: Rev. Dr. Donna Claycomb Sokol, Pastor

Scriptures: Lamentations 3:55-57 and Luke 1:5-13

Join us this week as we seek to step into their stories and discover why God’s silence is never absence, and why our deepest ache may be the very place God regularly chooses to break in with hope.

Don’t miss it. This might be the word your heart has been waiting for.

Preacher: Rev. Dr. Donna Claycomb Sokol, Pastor

Scripture:Philippians 4:4-9 and John 6:25-35

Join us this week as we wrestle with these questions and more in the conclusion of our sermon series, “This is Us: The Heart of MVP.” Together, we’ll lean into our core value of cultivating spiritual depth in hopes of discovering a faith that doesn’t bargain, but abides; a faith that doesn’t demand, but endures.

Preacher: Rev. Dr. Donna Claycomb Sokol, Pastor

Scripture: Ephesians 4:1-16

How might we help others experience a sense of belonging? Join us this week as we explore these questions alongside the invitation found in Ephesians 4 to be formed into one body that builds itself up in love.

Preacher: Rev. Dr. Donna Claycomb Sokol, Pastor

Scripture: Psalm 139:1-18

At Mount Vernon Place, we believe God speaks these words about every single person. Not only are we all made in God’s image, we are also the reason God’s heart beats and sometimes skips a beat. And we believe that living into our belovedness can change everything."

Preacher: Grace Rogers, Howard & Mary Martin Ministry Intern

Scripture: Ephesians 1:11-23

The Heart of MVP, in which we will be exploring and celebrating who we are as a congregation and how we seek to live out our core values. As we begin our new series, we will be invited to consider the bounty of our faith inheritance in celebration of All Saints Day, the liturgical day of the year on which we remember the great cloud of witnesses on whose shoulders we stand

Preacher: Rev. Dr. Donna Claycomb Sokol, Pastor

Scripture: ⁠John 21:1-19⁠

Join us this week as we read the final chapter of John's Gospel, one we often read during Eastertide, about Jesus' third post-resurrection appearance. The disciples have gotten into a boat to go fishing. But on "that night" they caught nothing.

Preacher: Rev. Dr. Donna Claycomb Sokol, Pastor

Scripture: Leviticus 19:9-10 and 25:8-12 and Luke 18:1-8

Join us this week as we explore an early policy of ensuring hungry people could be fed before pondering how we might work together in similarly creative ways.

How might "reimagining" be a spiritual practice that strengthens the entire community?

Preacher: Donna Claycomb Sokol, Pastor

Scripture: Matthew 19:16-22 and Deuteronomy 15:1-11

Join us this week as we explore what Scripture says about debt—not just as a personal struggle, but as a force that impacts entire communities—and then meet a man desperate to live a life that truly matters, yet paralyzed by his unwillingness to part with his wealth.