A Place of Thanksgiving -- Psalm 78:1-8, Phil. 1:2-11 (Thanksgiving Sunday)
In Jesus Christ, God’s grace reaches us and embraces us even in the mire and the muck. We tell that story true and give thanks.
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Scott Clark
- Nov 12
- 10 min
The Life We Live on Tuesday -- Matthew 23:1-12 (23rd Sunday After Pentecost)
God’s New Creation comes to life, not just in the words we say and sing on Sunday, but in the life we live on Tuesday.
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Scott Clark
- Nov 6
- 10 min
"A Crowded Cosmos" -- Revelation 7:9-21 (All Saints' Sunday; 22nd Sunday After Pentecost)
God embodies God’s love for the world in the communion of the saints, all of us embraced, drawn together in one Body.
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Scott Clark
- Oct 29
- 7 min
Holy Questions - Lev. 19:1-2, 15-18, Matt. 22:34-45 (Rev. Dvera Hadden, preaching)
There is a place for you here if you come with questions.
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Scott Clark
- Oct 23
- 6 min
Life in a Body -- Romans 12:1-8 (21st Sunday After Pentecost
Whoever you are, in the Body of Christ, there is a place for you here.
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Scott Clark
- Oct 15
- 7 min
Who Will We Be? -- Philippians 4:4-14 (20th Sunday After Pentecost)
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Scott Clark
- Oct 8
- 12 min
Somewhere Between Despair and Hope - Jeremiah 12:10-13; Romans 8:18-27 (19th Sunday After Pentecost)
In the severity of climate disruption, the place for us here is always our place in the Body of Christ – an integrated part of all creation.
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Scott Clark
- Sep 24
- 10 min
Companions on the Way -- Genesis 18:1-10; Matthew 20:1-16 (17th Sunday After Pentecost)
As we accompany each other, God creates a world of welcome, where everyone is seen as fully human and everyone has enough.
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Scott Clark
- Sep 17
- 10 min
A People on the Move -- Lev. 19:1-4, 33-37; Matthew 2:23-33 (16th Sunday After Pentecost)
In a world of people on the move, God insists that we love and shelter the stranger.
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Scott Clark
- Sep 10
- 10 min
"A Place for You Here" -- Romans 12:9-21 (15th Sunday After Pentecost)
In the Body of Christ, love comes to life – as we love with integrity, share in the deep need of the world, and practice hospitality.
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Scott Clark
- Sep 3
- 8 min
A Good Day's Work -- Matthew 14:13-21 (14th Sunday After Pentecost; Labor Day Weekend)
Jesus invites us in to work healing and feeding, bringing to life a world of possibility.
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Scott Clark
- Aug 27
- 9 min
Singing the Songbook of Life -- Psalm 1 (13th Sunday After Pentecost)
The Psalms take us on a journey through the whole of life – and what we find – again and again – everywhere we look – is the goodness of God
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Scott Clark
- Aug 20
- 9 min
And What About Those Angry Psalms? -- Psalm 109 (11th Sunday After Pentecost)
God – in God’s goodness and steadfast love – stands with the poor, the vulnerable, and the oppressed, in the place of deepest need. In our a
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Scott Clark
- Aug 6
- 9 min
"My God, My God, Why Have You Forsaken Me?"- Psalm 22, Matt. 27:45-54 (10th Sunday After Pentecost)
From the cross, Jesus cries out in the lament of the psalms, and brings us into a new song for a new creation and a brave new world.
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Scott Clark
- Jul 30
- 9 min
So Help Me God -- Psalms 56 and 103 (8th Sunday After Pentecost)
When we pray out of our pain, God is listening, and God is for us.
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Scott Clark
- Jul 16
- 10 min
"Sing a New Song" -- Psalms of Praise -- Psalms 146-150 (7th Sunday After Pentecost)
We praise to name and acknowledge God’s goodness in the world. “We praise God in order to see the world as God does,” and then to say “Yes!”
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Scott Clark
- Jul 9
- 10 min
Do We Really Want to Be Known? -- Psalm 139 (6th Sunday After Pentecost)
God searches us, knows us, and loves us still. God creates us, challenges us, recreates us – always in love.
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Scott Clark
- Jul 3
- 9 min
The Psalms and the Nations -- Psalm 72 (5th Sunday After Pentecost)
God insists that public power be used for the well-being of the poor, the vulnerable, and the marginalized.
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Scott Clark
- Jun 25
- 10 min
The Songs We Know by Heart -- Psalms 121 & 23 (Pride Sunday; 4th Sunday After Pentecost)
In the Psalms, we sing our life to God, and God sings our life with us – every distress into deliverance, every lament into liberation.
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Scott Clark
- Jun 18
- 11 min
Psalms of Liberation -- Psalms 137 and 126 (Juneteenth & the 3rd Sunday After Pentecost)
In psalms of liberation, we remember, hope, and move forward into God’s ongoing, liberating work in the world.
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