Messages from a small church seeking the center of God's heart and will.
Episodes
Sunday Apr 25, 2021
Sunday Apr 25, 2021
Matthew 2
A story about magicians, angels, a homicidal king, and the horrifying and unnecessary death of a townful of little boys. Why is this story even in the Bible?
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Mini Message: Barb Jernigan
Main Message: Pastor Jenn
Sunday Apr 18, 2021
Sunday Apr 18, 2021
Matthew 1
What happens when God is with us: we get better connected to our heritage, freed from our past, and our insignificance is turned into significance.
[God with us] means God will make sure things work out. --Dr John Goldingay
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Pastor Jenn
This podcast will now also incorporate audio from the "Mini Message" (formerly known as "Children's Message"), usually presented by Rev Barbara Jernigan. This particular episode also contains audio from an impromptu family meeting which happened right before our congregational time of prayer.
Sunday Apr 11, 2021
Sunday Apr 11, 2021
Psalm 8
A transition sermon between our series on Atonement (WDJD) and an extended meander through the Gospel of Matthew. Many thanks to bibleproject.com for the use of their video and teaching on Psalm 8.
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Pastor Jenn
Sunday Apr 04, 2021
Sunday Apr 04, 2021
Matthew 28:1-8
Jesus defeated death. If He didn't, none of the other ways of looking at the atonement even matter.
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Pastor Jenn
Friday Apr 02, 2021
Friday Apr 02, 2021
Isaiah 53
The lens makes all the difference.
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Pastor Jenn
Tuesday Mar 23, 2021
Tuesday Mar 23, 2021
Leviticus 16
Sin is contagious. It needs to be eradicated. Jesus does that.
[Ironically, this is the one that didn't get preached in church, on the anniversary of our Covid lockdown, because Pastor Jenn was sick with a fever that day. (She doesn't have Covid--don't worry!)]
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Pastor Jenn
Sunday Mar 14, 2021
Sunday Mar 14, 2021
Exodus 14:5-31
There is no sin that doesn't hurt anyone. The sin of slavery hurts everyone. And Jesus frees us.
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Pastor Jenn
Sunday Mar 07, 2021
Sunday Mar 07, 2021
John 2
Cleaning out the good in favor of the best.
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Rev Barbara Jernigan
Sunday Feb 28, 2021
Sunday Feb 28, 2021
Genesis 22:1-19
Abraham could have stopped believing that this God who had called him was really different from the gods he had left in the human-sacrificing city of Ur, and obeyed no matter what, as just one god among many.
Abraham could have held onto his belief that this God was different from the gods he had left and as such God would never ask such a thing as sacrificing the son of the promise.
Either way, the promise was doomed. Or Abraham could have found the third way.
This is the one where Pastor Jenn completely loses it in the middle.
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Pastor Jenn
Sunday Feb 21, 2021
Sunday Feb 21, 2021
Genesis 15
We know Jesus died on the cross for our sins, but how did that actually work? For one thing, He fulfilled the terms of the covenant with Abraham.
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Pastor Jenn