by Shelly | Jun 3, 2021 | Sermons
Worship will be in-person at Starker Arts Park, Corvallis Live Sunday at 10 am Bring folding chairs and your own communion elements of wine/juice and bread. Starker Arts Park, 4485 SW Country Club Blvd. Corvallis Knit together in the body of Christ A house divided...
by Shelly | May 28, 2021 | Easter Events, Sermons
One God, With Us Always When we say God is the triune God, we are saying something about who God is beyond, before, and after the universe: that there is community within God. Our experience of this is reflected in Paul’s words today. When we pray to God as Jesus...
by Shelly | May 8, 2021 | Easter Events, Sermons
Come, Holy Spirit, to us Fifty days after Easter, we celebrate the outpouring of the Holy Spirit on Pentecost. Crossing all boundaries that would separate us, the Spirit brings the wideness of God’s mercy to places we least expect it—to a crowd of strangers of...
by Shelly | May 8, 2021 | Easter Events, Sermons
Jesus Prays That We be One in Him – ALELUIA! The gospel for Easter’s seventh Sunday is always taken from the long prayer Jesus prays for his followers in John’s gospel on the night before his death, and always includes Jesus’ desire that his followers will be...
by Shelly | May 5, 2021 | Easter Events, Sermons
Jesus’s Ultimate Friendship with Us – ALELUIA! This Sunday’s image of the life the risen Christ shares with us is the image of friendship. We are called to serve others as Jesus came to serve; but for John’s gospel, the image of servanthood is too...
by Shelly | Apr 20, 2021 | Easter Events, Sermons
Connected to the Source of Life – ALELUIA! This Sunday’s image of how the risen Christ shares his life with us is the image of the vine. Christ the vine and we the branches are alive in each other, in the mystery of mutual abiding described in the gospel and the...
