Messages from a small church seeking the center of God's heart and will.
Episodes
Sunday May 08, 2022
Sunday May 08, 2022
Series: Storyteller #3
Mother's Day - May 2022
Luke 13:31-35
Is this really a parable? And what does "mother-love" have to do with either Jesus or salvation?
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Scripture Reading: Paul Layte
Message in a Basket: Rev. Barbara Jernigan
Main Message: Pastor Jenn (Rev Jennifer A G Layte)
Sunday May 01, 2022
Sunday May 01, 2022
Series: Storyteller #2
1 May 2022
Luke 10:25-37
Pastor Jenn was sick this weekend. So Barb preached two Messages from her Basket, and Pastor Jenn recorded her sermon from home. This communion Sunday recording is therefore longer than usual, but such good stuff--we hope you'll listen to all of it!
Today we looked, with Jesus, at the questions, "What must I do to inherit eternal life?" and "Who's my neighbor?" (Turns out they're related.) We discover that parables work because we're usually all the characters, one way or another. And also, Jesus Himself is hiding somewhere in them, too.
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Scripture Reading: Tom Jernigan
Message in a Basket x 2: Rev. Barbara Jernigan
Main Message: Pastor Jenn (Rev Jennifer A G Layte)
Sunday Apr 24, 2022
Sunday Apr 24, 2022
Series: Storyteller #1
24 April 2022
Luke 1:1-4; Mark 4:33-34
Why do we tell stories? Why are there so many stories in the Bible? Why would Luke, trying to write an orderly account of the life of Jesus, bother to include so many of Jesus' stories which were, in fact, fiction?
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Scripture Reading: Mark Bertrand
Message in a Basket: Paul Layte
Main Message: Pastor Jenn (Rev Jennifer A G Layte)
Sunday Apr 17, 2022
Sunday Apr 17, 2022
Series: Thoughts & Prayers #7
17 April 2022 - Easter Sunday
John 20:1-10, 19-23
Five people publicly commit their lives to Jesus through baptism by immersion. Then we all learned about how prayer can form us from there: After Pausing, Rejoicing, Asking, and Yielding to the love of God, all of life can become a prayer--just as Jesus' did. (Unlike most Sundays, this week's audio includes the entire service.)
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Scripture Reading: Kathleen Youngs
Message in a Basket: Sandi Gunderman
Main Message: Pastor Jenn (Rev Jennifer A G Layte)
Sunday Apr 10, 2022
Sunday Apr 10, 2022
Series: Thoughts & Prayers #6
10 April 2022 - Palm Sunday
Luke 22:39-53
God plays by His own rules...even when it hurts Him. And He knows what it's like to hear no.
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Scripture Reading: Paul Layte
Message in a Basket: Rev Barbara Jernigan
Main Message: Pastor Jenn (Rev Jennifer A G Layte)
Tuesday Apr 05, 2022
Tuesday Apr 05, 2022
Series: Thoughts & Prayers #5
3 April 2022
Exodus 17:8-13 A story about a battle between flesh and blood (the Amalekites against the Israelites) gives us insight into how to handle it when our bullies are NOT flesh and blood.
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Scripture Reading: Tom Jernigan
Message in a Basket: Rev Barbara Jernigan
Main Message: Pastor Jenn (Rev Jennifer A G Layte)
Sunday Mar 27, 2022
Sunday Mar 27, 2022
Series: Thoughts & Prayers #4
27 March 2022
Mark 10:46-52
"Sometimes I wonder if the reason some of my prayers go unanswered is because I'm asking for the quick fix that will get me off Jesus' back, rather than the long-term solution that will bring me closer to Him." --Pastor Jenn
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Technologically, this has been the weirdest recording we have ever produced. The audio was inaudible at the beginning of the service. Pastor Jenn's mic battery died 2/3 of the way through her sermon. Therefore, all that is included here is the Message in a Basket, and the sermon up through the point where the mic died, with a re-preached audio clip attached at the end, with the end of the sermon. Thank you for your grace and patience. Good news! We're getting new equipment soon. And also batteries.
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Message in a Basket: Rev Barbara Jernigan
Main Message: Pastor Jenn (Rev Jennifer A G Layte)
Sunday Mar 13, 2022
Sunday Mar 13, 2022
Acts 1:6-8, 12-14
Following the acrostic PRAY from Pete Grieg's book (Prayer: a Simple Guide for Normal People), this week we talked about "Pausing" before God. What if the Pause is actually when we confess: who God is, who we are without God, and who we are willing to be with God?
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Scripture Reading and Message in a Basket: Rev Barbara Jernigan
Main Message: Pastor Jenn (Rev Jennifer A G Layte)
Sunday Feb 27, 2022
Sunday Feb 27, 2022
Series: Thoughts & Prayers #1
27 February 2022
Genesis 4:19-26, Mark 1:29-37
Is prayer the number one thing humans have in common? If it is, what does it matter? How did it start? And what does it mean that even Jesus prayed?
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Scripture Reading: Bernice Rivera
Message in a Basket: Rev Barbara Jernigan
Main Message: Pastor Jenn (Rev Jennifer A G Layte)
Sunday Feb 20, 2022
Sunday Feb 20, 2022
Series: Temple–The Meeting of Heaven and Earth #7
20 February 2022
Revelation 21:9-22:5
What "going to church" has to do with loving our neighbor, and with God's version of happily ever after.
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Scripture Reading: Bernice Rivera
Message in a Basket: Rev Barbara Jernigan
Main Message: Pastor Jenn (Rev Jennifer A G Layte)