6/4/2017 Sermon

Thunderstuck!

A dramatic scripture reading of the Pentecost story from Acts 2. These videos serve as a Visual Liturgy, combining dramatic spoken scripture, music and motion graphics.

http://www.facebook.com/2Cellos http://www.instagram.com/2cellosofficial From our new album Celloverse - out now! iTunes: http://smarturl.it/celloverse Amazon: http://smarturl.it/celloverse-amz 2CELLOS Luka Sulic and Stjepan Hauser playing their arrangement of Thunderstruck by AC/DC BaRock style!

3/19/2017 Sermon

Below is a video that is you can hear in the sermon recording above.  We've added it below in case you want to see the video.

3/5/2017 Sermon

Taking Up During Lent
Some ideas on what to take up:

  • Pray for your enemies each day
  • Keep a gratitude journal - write down things each day for which you are thankful
  • Read & reflect on something from Scripture each day:  maybe from one of the Gospels?  Maybe a Psalm? Maybe from reading the Sermon on the Mount (Matthew 5-7) over and over?
  • Daily use an online devotional (www.d365.org) or prayer guide (www.commonprayer.net or www.sacredspace.ie/daily-prayer )
  • Write a note of thanks to a different person every day - family, friends, fellow church members, neighbors, people from your past, public figures, community servants & workers
  • Each week, seek to have a significant conversation with someone very different from you - in religion, race, orientation, politics, economic status, ethnicity, etc.  Ask questions; focus on listening instead of talking, explaining, or defending your own views or perspectives; what do you have to learn?
  • Invite someone to a meal with you at least once a week
  • Give a genuine compliment to someone each day - take time to appreciate even the small things in others
  • Go for a walk daily if possible - pray for people, houses, businesses, etc. you see and any needs that come to mind
  • Reach out to someone who might be lonely at least 3 times a week with a visit or a phone call
  • Saying "I'm sorry" - who needs an apology from you?  How can you work to mend a broken relationship or heal a relationship

Giving Up During Lent

  • Complaining - seek to improve all complaining for your talk
  • Social Media - give up Facebook, Twitter, etc. - be intentional in doing something with the extra time and attention you have
  • A grudge - pray daily about something you're struggling to let go; consider if there is a difficult but necessary conversation you need to have or an apology you need to give
  • Noise - avoid turning on the radio in your car or anything around the house as background noise; use the silence to pray or think or notice things or have a conversation
  • Find something in your house each day to give away (and don't let it all be stuff you won't miss)
  • The need to have the last word
  • Extra purchases - buy only necessities (and if you have to question if something is really a necessity, it's likely not) - donate the extra money you would have spent
  • Skip a meal once a week or eat simpler meals on a designated day - give the money you would have spent to those helping address local or world hunger