Trinity Sunday: Speechless – June 18, 2014

“Trinity Sunday: Speechless” Text: Matthew 28:16-20 On this Trinity Sunday, we are invited to contemplate the mystery of Holy Trinity, not as a doctrine to be explained, but as a revelation to be experienced. While Scripture serves as a reliable pointer, and the ancient creeds attempt to describe the revelation, we are truly caught speechless…

How Then Shall We Live? – June 1, 2014

How Then Shall We Live? Text:  Peter 3:8-9; 4:7-11; 5:6-11 We conclude our series on First Peter with a sequence of practical instructions on holy living. Now that we have this living hope, having heard the call to Christlike holiness, having tasted that God is good; we live into the good life, taking heart despite…

The Good Life – May 18, 2014

The Good Life – May 18, 2014 Text: I Peter 2:11-12, 20-25 What does the good life mean? The good life means that we are safe, that we are living into our salvation, that while we may be strangers and aliens in the world around us, we are confident of our citizenship in a greater…

Strange Holiness – May 4, 2014

Strange Holiness – May 4, 2014 Text: I Peter 1:13-25 Resurrection people are called to be holy as God is holy. But what does this holiness look like? Shaped by the Image of God, informed by the incarnation, and participating in the Mission of God, we hear the call to be obedient children, living as…

Transitions 6: From Certainty to Doubt – April 13, 2014

Transitions 6: “From Certainty to Doubt” Text: Matthew 21:1-11 Pastor Jon invites us to journey past the Triumphal Entry and to consider the ways in which the week unfolds. As we enter into the narrative, we are confronted with the ways in which our own certainty gives way to doubt. Instead of suggesting that we…

Transitions 4: From Darkness to Light – March 30, 2014

Transitions 4: From Darkness to Light Text: Ephesians 5:8-14 Chaplain Mike Griggs (USCG) offered this morning’s message about the ways in which we are to be shaped by God’s light in our lives. Punctuated by the words of ʺLet the Lower Lights be Burning,ʺ he looked at three key points: destiny, direction, determination. As we…