Liturgy: 5th Sunday After Pentecost, Selections from Leviticus 26 (June 23, 2024)

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Hymns

Hymn GTG #81, “Glorious Things of Thee Are Spoken”
Hymn GTG #639, “O Sing a New Song”
Hymn GTG #64, “I Long for Your Commandments”
Hymn GTG #65, “Guide Me, O Thou Great Jehovah”

Liturgy: 3rd Sunday After Pentecost, Psalm 65 (June 9, 2024)

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Hymns

Hymn GTG #479, “Ho, All Who Thirst”
Hymn GTG #480, “Take Me to the Water”
Hymn GTG #476, “Crashing Waters at Creation”
Hymn GTG #410, “God Is Calling through the Whisper”

Liturgy: 2nd Sunday After Pentecost, Job 38:1-38 (June 2, 2024)

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Hymns

Hymn GTG #12, “Immortal, Invisible, God Only Wise”
Hymn GTG #648, "Thankful Hearts and Voices Raise"

Hymn GTG #24, “God, Who Stretched the Spangled Heavens” 

Sermon: “Beyond Our Ken; Within Our ‘Can’”, Isaiah 6:1-8/John 1:1-5, 9-14 (May 30, 2021--Trinity Sunday)

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Today is what’s affectionately known by many preachers as “Heresy Sunday”. Devoting a week’s worship to the Holy Trinity SEEMS like a great idea in principle, but if you’ve ever attempted to explain the Trinity to anyone unfamiliar with the doctrine, you can understand why this is actually one of the most challenging Sundays of the year to preach. The Trinity is such a strange concept—three equal and unified persons of the same substance contained within a single God—that humanity has yet to discover an analogy that doesn’t accidentally slip into heresy in one way or another.

Entirely Random Reflection

When I was younger, I hated being outside. I didn't like the warmth, I didn't like the brightness, I didn't like that it required moving around. Like, I spent the better part of several days of a family cruise in our (interior) cabin watching movies instead of sitting by the pool. The prospect of going outside for anything other than necessary errands made me feel anxious and physically uncomfortable.