April 23 2017 Sermon

Pastor Becca’s sermon series this season is “Film and faith” and we’ll be exploring certain secular (meaning non-faith based) movies and their ability to inform us and shape our faith, even though they are made by people who do not share our worldview. Entertainment...

Giving up Death – Easter Sunday, 2017

I have never liked butterflies. That sounds crazy, right? Everyone loves butterflies. Not me. They creep me out. Beautiful or not, they’re still insects, and while I can appreciate their beauty and value from a distance, I’d rather them not invade my personal space....

Giving Up Popularity: Palm Sunday 2017

If you have been anywhere near a kid in the past few years, it is likely that you have heard the song “Let it Go” from the Disney animated film, “Frozen.” Frozen quickly became one of the top Disney films every released, and theme song, “Let it Go,” won an Oscar that...

Giving Up Enemies – April 2, 2017

There’s a Spanish story of a father and son who had become estranged. The son ran away, and the father set off to find him. He searched for months to no avail. Finally, in a last desperate effort to find him, the father put an ad in a Madrid newspaper. The ad...

Giving Up Our Lives March 26, 2017

On January 1, 1863, the President of the United States signed a controversial executive order. Our country was in a precarious place socially, economically, and politically. We were in the midst of a Civil War, and Abraham Lincoln had been president for two years. The...

Giving Up Superiority March 19, 2017

There once lived a lion who believed he was superior to all others. He was so proud of his mastery over the animal kingdom that he decided to make sure all of the other animals knew that he was, indeed, the king of the jungle. So sure of his superiority was this lion...