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Scripture Lesson: 1 Corinthians 15: 51-58 Listen, I will tell you a mystery! We will not all die, but we will all be changed, in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised imperishable, and we will be changed. For this perishable body must put on imperishability, and this mortal body must put on immortality. When this perishable body puts on imperishability, and this mortal…

Does anyone here, including those joining online, know when Ascension Day is?  It’s a rhetorical question, though if you know it without Googling, kudos to you.  We are Methodists, and while the liturgical calendar is not as big a part of our lives as it is for our some of our sisters and brothers of other denominations, it is still an important part of our church life.  We observe Advent, many of us give up or add things for Lent,…

We talked last week about how the mysterious and wild God of All Things did the unthinkable, the unimaginable.  God became truly human.  Yet, as you well know, that is not how the story ends.  A few decades later, the God of Mystery and Wonder, went further, and did something that was yet more shocking.  It had been etched in prophecy and spoken of by sages, yet still, when it happened it was utterly unexpected.  The Lord of All, died…

Text: John 1:1-14 2,000 years ago, everything changed. The people of God had always known that the LORD their God was wilder and more untamable than the sea, more mysterious than the starless corners of the night sky, yet this was something else.  Even those around Jesus struggled to come to grips with what God had done.  Even the Gospels themselves, if you read them either in the order that they were written or in the order they appear in…

Scripture Text: Psalm 19 When we think about this doctrine which is so important to all Christians of all times and places and theologies, we (with good reason) immediately think of famous verses like Genesis 1:1: “In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.”   Yet, scripture speaks about God as creator in other places and in other ways, and these passages which are at times left out of the discussion of God as creator have something important to…

Text: Job 38:1-15 Have you ever waded out into the ocean, let the waves break against you, felt the sand beneath your feet, and heard the seagulls up ahead?  It is an awe inspiring experience, such power, such enormity, such mystery, depths we will never know, filled with creatures that we will never see, right before our eyes.  When we come before God, we are like children wading out into the sea.  Everything that the child learns in that experience,…

Scripture Text: Philippians 2:1-11 Long ago, in a world which was in some ways much like ours and yet so very different, a dark world, a brutal world, there lived a young man, a young man who was ambitious.  His uncle and adopted father had done the unthinkable.  He defeated the undefeatable, the wild men to the north, and upon his return from war, in glory and he became lord of all he surveyed.  Many believed that the young man’s…

Pastor Steve explores how God can rescue us from temptation.