The children bring the good news of Jesus’ birth to us today. In a blast from the past, the gospel today is “Shepherds, Sheep and a Savior,” presented by our kids back in 2012. (Some of our 2020 kids also make a brief cameo at the end of the service.) Nobody likes to hang out […]
Online Worship: Third Sunday of Advent—Game-Changers We all have moments in our lives that are game-changers. Moments where everything before is different from everything that came after. Mary has one of those moments in our gospel reading today. How is God present and active in these moments? Are we in one of those moments now? […]
“God does not comfort us to make us comfortable, but to make us comforters.” (John Henry Jowett) Today we hear God’s words of comfort in Isaiah and Mark—as well as the call to follow in the footsteps of those who proclaim them. You may want to find two candles in your home and be ready […]
Hope is only real when it is based on honesty about who we are and what kind of a mess we’re in. Jesus promises to come back, not when everything is great, but in the very midst of our broken, hurting world. He urges us to pay attention to the signs in creation all around […]
Jesus says his kingdom is filled with those who recognize his own face in the faces of the hungry, the sick, the forgotten—and respond. Not those who check all the right boxes and add up their “points” and only help others when it helps them, but those who respond in faith that the little they […]
What do you do when you’ve been given something incredibly valuable? How do you figure out what to do with it? How do you get over the hurdles and obstacles that get in the way? Jesus tells a challenging parable with some “terrible” elements to try and help us see the true value of what […]
Four years…four days…twenty years…two thousand years…how do you wait when you don’t know how long it will be? Today we look below the surface of a story Jesus tells about waiting, and question what it really means to wait in faith and hope. The Bible readings for this worship service are: Amos 5:18-24, 1 Thessalonians […]
On All Saints we celebrate our saints who have gone before us. But how can we answer the call to be saints as well? It’s not about our holiness or our strength, but about Jesus and the power of the cross to forgive and give life. This worship service includes Communion as an extension of […]
Through the truth of God’s amazing and life-changing grace, the Holy Spirit sets us free to be children of God—no matter what holds us captive, whether within us or outside of us. This worship service includes Communion as an extension of the table at St. Peter’s on Sunday, October 25, 2020. The Bible readings for […]
If you’re feeling torn and frustrated about politics, good news! Jesus dealt with the same thing. His counsel was to give to Caesar what is Caesar’s, but then also to give to God what is God’s. The good news in all of this is that you are 100% God’s—no matter what else may happen. As […]