Worship for Sunday, April 5, 2020

Online worship for Sunday, April 5, 2020 Leading in Worship: Pastor Tricia Jacobs, Pastor Dan Voigt, Patrick Marchant, Erica & Whitney Rissi Order of Worship: Taizé Hymn: Stay With Me Opening Announcements Pastoral Prayer Hymn: What Wondrous Love is This Scripture & Sermon: Mark 14:32-42 Communion Song: Clean Organ Postlude: What Wondrous Love is This […]

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Worship March 29

Online worship for Sunday, March 29, 2020 Leading in Worship: Pastor Tricia Jacobs, Pastor Dan Voigt, Patrick Marchant, Erica & Whitney Rissi Order of Worship: Enter the Passion Opening Announcements Pastoral Prayer Hymn: We Gather Here, In Jesus’ Name Scripture & Sermon: John 13:1-17 Song: God of Miracles Organ Postlude: Love Divine, All Loves Excelling […]

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Worship March 22

Rev. Jim Guyer Mark 14:3-9 New Revised Standard Version (NRSV) The Anointing at Bethany 3 While he was at Bethany in the house of Simon the leper, as he sat at the table, a woman came with an alabaster jar of very costly ointment of nard, and she broke open the jar and poured the ointment […]

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The Teaching: Risking Challenge

Mark 12:13-17 New Revised Standard Version (NRSV) 13 Then they sent to him some Pharisees and some Herodians to trap him in what he said. 14 And they came and said to him, “Teacher, we know that you are sincere, and show deference to no one; for you do not regard people with partiality, but teach the […]

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The Temple: Risking Righteous Anger

Mark 11:12-25 Common English Bible (CEB) 12 The next day, after leaving Bethany, Jesus was hungry. 13 From far away, he noticed a fig tree in leaf, so he went to see if he could find anything on it. When he came to it, he found nothing except leaves, since it wasn’t the season for figs.14 So he […]

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The Parade: Risking Reputation

Mark 11:1-11 New Revised Standard Version (NRSV) 11 When they were approaching Jerusalem, at Bethphage and Bethany, near the Mount of Olives, he sent two of his disciples 2 and said to them, “Go into the village ahead of you, and immediately as you enter it, you will find tied there a colt that has never been […]

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Genesis 2:7 New Revised Standard Version (NRSV) 7 then the Lord God formed man from the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and the man became a living being. Genesis 3:19 New Revised Standard Version (NRSV) 19 By the sweat of your face     you shall eat bread until you return […]

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Cloudy Clarity

Mark 8:27-9:8 New Revised Standard Version (NRSV) 27 Jesus went on with his disciples to the villages of Caesarea Philippi; and on the way he asked his disciples, “Who do people say that I am?” 28 And they answered him, “John the Baptist; and others, Elijah; and still others, one of the prophets.” 29 He asked them, “But […]

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Internal Corruption

Mark 7:1-23 Common English Bible (CEB) 7 The Pharisees and some legal experts from Jerusalem gathered around Jesus.2 They saw some of his disciples eating food with unclean hands. (They were eating without first ritually purifying their hands through washing. 3 The Pharisees and all the Jews don’t eat without first washing their hands carefully. This is a […]

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The Power of Witness

Mark 6:1-13 New International Version (NIV) 6 Jesus left there and went to his hometown, accompanied by his disciples.2 When the Sabbath came, he began to teach in the synagogue, and many who heard him were amazed. “Where did this man get these things?” they asked. “What’s this wisdom that has been given him? What are these […]

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