The story of Ruth opens with two daughters making choices. One makes a choice that goes far above and beyond what she would ordinarily be called upon to do.

Pastor Nathan Willowby uses her choice to show us how God works through those who go above and beyond.

Ruth 1

In this last installment on Hebrews Pastor Nathan Willowby shows how the author connects Jesus into Jeremiah's message of a new covenant, and how this opens up a new forever for us all.

Hebrews chapter 5 talks of the identity of Melchizedek, how he was a priest of God to Abram. Melchizedek was someone Abram knew that helped to tie him to God when the winds blew. What is your avocado? What it is you have that, like Melchizedek for Abram, you have that helps hold you to God?

Hebrews chapters 2 through 4

In the time of the New Testament, the writer of Hebrews interpreted Jesus through the eyes of the Old Testament. Today we have the full New testament, but the times and circumstances of those who hear our telling of the story have changed. Without changing the story itself How do we reach them?

Most of the commandments we can fool others over, we can pretend an action. But Pastor Nathan Willowby covers the one commandment we really can't fool ourselves over: "Do Not Covet." This commandment reaches down into our thoughts. Showing us we need to train our thoughts. Desires are not always bad; it depends upon what we desire.

The second half of the Commandments apply to the way we deal with and relate to our neighbors. Pastor Nathan Willowby examines these with the question "Are these actually restrictions on our liberty, or means of ensuring a wider liberty?" What would it actually mean to inhabit a society where these are the norm, instead of a description of rarely seen idealistic behavior?

Today's text is Deut 5:6-15

In this passage Pastor Nathan Willowby talks about the commandments that apply to how we relate to God. Special attention needs paid to the one about using God's name. We tend to water that one down and fail to follow its intent far too often.

(Apologies for the microphone trouble, evident in the hum.)

A Pentecost Sunday message from Pastor Nathan Willowby. He speaks of the Holy Spirit undergirding the church, breathing fire into it. And he speaks of family traditions, the family traditions of the church family.

Phillipians 4:4-7

Pastor Nathan Willowby takes the opportunity of Senior Sunday to remind us that, even as the seniors leading service today have a resemblance with their families in the seats, so we are to have a family resemblance to Christ.

Philipians Ch 2