1 sermon / Mark 1:9-15 / February 28, 2016 / Roger Paynter

"We need not only the strength to defer a decision;
we also need the strength to make a decision." — T.S. Eliot

1 sermon / John 3:1-17 / February 21, 2016 / Roger Paynter

"What Jesus meant by flesh is the person disrupted; what Jesus meant by Spirit is the person restored." — Paul Tournier

1 sermon / Mark 6:1-13 / February 7, 2016 / Roger Paynter

“The peculiar grace of a Shaker chair is due to the fact that it was made by someone capable of believing that an angel might come and sit in it.” — Thomas Merton

1 sermon / January 31, 2016 / Rev. Dr. Jeffrey Haggray

"Love is patient; love is kind; love is not envious or boastful or arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice in wrongdoing, but rejoices in the truth." 1 Corinthians 13:4-6

1 sermon / January 24, 2016 / Roger Paynter

"Just then a man in their synagogue who was possessed by an impure spirit cried out, ‘What do you want with us, Jesus of Nazareth? Have you come to destroy us? I know who you are—the Holy One of God!’" Mark 1:23-24

1 sermon / January 17, 2016 / Roger Paynter

"Therefore God exalted him to the highest place and gave him the name that is above every name, ..." Philippians 2:9

1 sermon / January 10, 2016 / Roger Paynter

"Indeed there are those who are last who will be first, and first who will be last." Luke 13:30

5 sermons / November 27 - December 27, 2015 / Peter Rhea Jones, David Gushee and Roger Paynter

"For unto us a child is born, to us a son is given, and the government will be on his shoulders. And he will be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace." Isaiah 9:6

10 sermons / September 13-November 22, 2015 / guest preachers

"When the day of Pentecost came, they were all together in one place." Acts 2:1

14 sermons / June 7-September 6, 2015 / Dr. Peter Rhea Jones and Dr. David Gushee preaching

"Then he told John's disciples, "Go back to John and tell him what you have seen and heard—the blind see, the lame walk, the lepers are cured, the deaf hear, the dead are raised to life, and the Good News is being preached to the poor."
Luke 7:22

5 sermons / May 3-31, 2015 / Julie Pennington-Russell

"The Lord bless you and keep you."
Numbers 6:24

1 sermon / April 19, 2015 / Julie Pennington-Russell

"Then Jesus took them through the writings of Moses and all the prophets, explaining from all the Scriptures the things concerning himself."
Luke 24:27

1 sermon / April 12, 2015 / Julie Pennington-Russell

"Suddenly Jesus was standing among them! He said, ‘Peace be with you. As the Father has sent me, so I am sending you.’ Then he breathed on them and said ‘Receive the Holy Spirit.’"
John 20:19b-22

1 sermon / April 12, 2015 / Julie Pennington-Russell

"Suddenly Jesus was standing among them! He said, ‘Peace be with you. As the Father has sent me, so I am sending you.’ Then he breathed on them and said ‘Receive the Holy Spirit.’"
John 20:19b-22

1 sermon / April 5, 2015 / Julie Pennington-Russell

The angel said... "Do not be afraid. Jesus, who was crucified, is not here. For he has been raised from the dead." Matthew 28:5-6

1 sermon / March 29, 2015 / Julie Pennington-Russell

"Blessings on the King who comes in the name of the Lord!" Luke 19:38a

6 sermons  /  February 22 - March 29, 2015  /  Julie Pennington-Russell

1 sermon / February 15, 2015 / Julie Pennington-Russell

"God is the one who began this good work in you, and I am certain that he won't stop before it is complete on the day that Christ Jesus returns." 1 Philippians 1:1-11

1 sermon / February 8, 2015 / Julie Pennington-Russell

"For now there are faith, hope and love. But of these three, the greatest is love." 1 Corinthians 13:13

1 sermon / February 1, 2015 / Julie Pennington-Russell

The story of Ananias and Sapphira isn’t Chicken Soup for anybody’s soul. But it does remind us how important it is to say the truth and live the truth with each other in the church of Jesus.