This Sunday is Palm Sunday--the official beginning of Holy Week.  Let's gather this Sunday for a beautiful and dissonant time of worship.  

The great medieval poet, Dante, observed, "Envy is the love of one's own good perverted to a desire to deprive other men of theirs." This week's text from Paul's stirring words to the Philippians points us to the hope that in Christ we can learn to move from envy to contentment.

“Gluttony is not about having body fat; it’s about having a gaunt soul.” – Jeff Cook 

When most of us think about the 7 Deadly Sins, sloth is the one that doesn't seem so bad. The reality is that sloth is much more than being lazy, and is in fact one of the most deadly.  

James K. A. Smith is our guest at Third this Sunday, preaching all services and teaching the concluding class in our February Term, Desires: Who and What Do You Love?

 It is hard to deny the power of money over our lives.  But Jesus invites us to experience freedom from the control money exerts and be liberated from greed: to rightly order our relationship to our possessions. Then can we become like him, generously using what we have and are for the sake of love. 

The sermon series Seven | Finding Freedom from the Evil Within begins this week with an examination of pride, often considered the root of all other sins. Perhaps the oldest form of evil within us.

Youth Sunday. Though we are sinners in desperate need of God's redemptive grace through Jesus, and while God's grace is freely given to us by no work of our own, we do have a role to play in what we become. 

In the final week of our series on the Book of Acts, we see Jesus continuing to push his church out into new territories and to engage new people--crossing racial and cultural boundaries to proclaim and to do works of healing and justice in his name.

Grace in Conflict: Acts 6: 1-7.  The early church faced internal conflict that threatened to destroy it and impede the spread of the gospel; yet, they overcame their differences.  How might we learn from its example and live more fully as the new Community?

As we prepare for worship this week, consider how you are sensing God's presence in your own life, and how God is empowering you to do the work Jesus entrusted to his church.

Corey Widmer begins a five-week series on key passages of Acts, helping us see how Jesus invites us into His story, then sends us out into the world.

We'll have ONLY TWO worship services on Sunday, December 28th with a Whole-Church Brunch in the Fellowship Hall at 10:15 during the normal Sunday School Hour. Click for more details.

Join us this fourth Sunday of Advent as Steve Hartman preaches on John 1: 1-3, 14-18, helping us recognize Incarnation as Revelation.

Join us this Sunday to worship the Lord through Handel's Messiah in the Sanctuary at 9:00 and 11:15 AM, or gather in the Fellowship Hall at 11:15 for worship and teaching from Rick Hutton and Alex Mejias.

On this Second Sunday of Advent, we will continue to focus on the second coming of Jesus Christ and the difference that can make to the way we live now.  

On this First Sunday of Advent, we will be focusing on the second coming of Jesus Christ and the difference that can make to the way we live now.