Scott Clark 6 days ago 9 min Unwelcome (Dis)Comfort -- 2 Samuel 11:1-15 (Rev. Dvera Hadden) (9th Sunday After Pentecost) With discomforting Scriptures, the Spirit unsettles us and challenges us to see how we oppress, to change, and to join God's work of welcome
Scott Clark Jul 11 11 min Welcoming God -- 2 Samuel 6:1-5, 12b-19 (Seventh Sunday After Pentecost) The welcome we return to God must be as loving and liberating as the welcome we have received.
Scott Clark Jul 4 11 min Shake Off the Dust -- Mark 6:1-13 (Sixth Sunday After Pentecost) Jesus rejects inhospitality, welcomes everyone, and insists that we do too – through the spiritual practice of hospitality.
Scott Clark Jun 27 11 min How Love Shows Up -- 1 Sam. 17:57-18:5, 2 Sam. 1:1, 17-27 (5th Sunday After Pentecost; Pride Sunday) We are how love shows up in the world – God’s love for the whole world, embodied in humanity, in us.
Scott Clark Jun 20 2 min Hope from Here -- 2 Corinthians 4:6-18 (Fourth Sunday After Pentecost) In the love of Christ, music invites us to stand in the midst of real life, and hope from there.
Scott Clark Jun 13 10 min God Chooses You -- 1 Samuel 15:34-16:13 (Third Sunday After Pentecost) God has chosen to be Christ for the world, and in that choice, God continues to choose us again and again.
Scott Clark Jun 6 7 min Take the Call -- Exodus 3:4-14 (Patrick O'Connor, preaching; Graduation Sunday) God calls us to be part of God's creation work; may we take the call.
Scott Clark May 31 11 min What Happens Next -- Acts 2:42-3:10 (Trinity Sunday) Our life in Christ is life in community, reaching out to the world with Christ's healing touch in our hands.
Scott Clark May 23 10 min "Moments of Shared Witnessing" -- Acts 2:1-21 (Pentecost Sunday) At Pentecost, in a moment of shared witnessing, we find the life of Christ alive in us.
Scott Clark May 16 10 min Here We Go -- Acts 1:1-11 (Ascension Sunday) The Risen Christ Ascends with a blessing and an assignment for the here and now. Here we go!
Scott Clark May 10 11 min Where Love Abides -- 1 John 4:7-21 (Sixth Sunday of Easter) 1 John 4 offers us a topography of where love abides – how we locate ourselves and move around in love, as we abide in God, and God in us.
Scott Clark May 2 9 min The Bread We Break -- Luke 24:13-35 (Fifth Sunday of Easter) In the bread we break, the Risen Christ makes us bread for the world.
Scott Clark Apr 25 9 min Be Bold -- Acts 14:1-4 (Ariel Mink, preaching) (Fourth Sunday of Easter) We are Easter people, called and empowered through the Risen Christ to live out our faith and challenge the powers that oppress.
Scott Clark Apr 18 9 min Broiled Fish and Cinnamon Toast -- Luke 24:36b-48 (Third Sunday of Easter) In stories of broiled fish and cinnamon toast: Resurrection is an everyday, embodied experience of the Risen Christ, embodied in us.
Scott Clark Apr 11 7 min “Life, in Jesus’ Name” -- Acts 4:32-35; John 20:19-31 (Rev. Dr. Aimee Moiso, preaching) Resurrection opens up the power of life to overturn death and its forces, and the choice to center ourselves in that reality.
Scott Clark Apr 4 8 min The Blessing of Life -- Mark 16:1-8 (Easter Sunday) In Resurrection, the Risen Christ blesses us with life, and invites us to go and tell the story with the lives we live
Scott Clark Mar 28 10 min The Blessing of Foolishness -- Mark 11:1-11 (Palm Sunday) In Palm Sunday, the cross, and the empty tomb, Jesus blesses the world by declaring a new reality with his body.
Scott Clark Mar 21 9 min The Blessing of Tears to Shed -- Psalm 22 (Fifth Sunday in Lent) God blesses us with tears to shed with each other, the presence of God in the midst of our suffering.
Scott Clark Mar 14 8 min The Blessing of a Name -- Genesis 17:1-7, 15-16 (Patrick O'Connor preaching) (Fourth Sunday in Lent) In the blessing of a name, God claims us as God's own; and in our names for God, we use metaphor to offer glimpses of what we see of God.
Scott Clark Mar 7 9 min The Blessing of Anger -- John 2:13-22 (Third Sunday in Lent) In the blessing of anger, Jesus takes a stance against everything that does us harm, and invites us into Resurrection life.
