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This week, Pastor Joe preaches from Mark 1:9-15 as we kick off the Lent Season. Together, we explore the temptation of Jesus and our own belovedness!

This week, Pastor Joe reminds us about noticing the awe and wonder of God in the every day, preaching from the story of Jesus' transfiguration in Mark 9:2-9. 

This week, Pastor Joe wraps up our short two-week series called Creating the World Anew. Preaching from Isaiah 40:21-31, he challenges us to let go of all that we had once hoped for and to live into the realities of today alongside God who is still creating. 

This week, Pastor Joe launched a quick two-week series called Creating the World Anew. Looking at 1 Corinthians 8:1-13, we explore the ways knowledge tempts us to have power over one another and how we might live our lives centered around love (and not knowledge)! 

This week, we wrap up our series, Following Jesus, by inviting pastoral intern, Angela Molloy, to share with us. Preaching from Mark 1:14-20, Angela invites us to make the intentional decision of making discipleship part of our identity, and not just a task to check off the to-do list.

This week, we continue our series, Following Jesus, by inviting our newest pastoral intern, Jancy Schrader, to share with us. Preaching from John 1:43-51, Jancy invites us to reflect on why we follow Jesus and reminds us of both the personal and communal sides of doing this thing called faith. 

Happy New Year! This week, we launched a short 3-week series called Following Jesus, looking to the ways Jesus launched his ministry! Preaching from Mark 1:4-11, Pastor Joe reflects on baptism.

Join Pastor Joe and Pastor Kristin as they share on Luke 2:22-33. They also reflect on 2023 and look forward to 2024!

Together, we celebrate Christmas Eve remembering how the fulfillment of hope, peace, joy and love came to us in Jesus and committing to work towards that same fulfillment once again. Pastor Joe preaches from Luke 2:1-20. 

This week, we continue on in our Advent series and turn to Mary's encounter with the angel Gabriel. Check out Pastor Joe's sermon from Luke 1:26-38.

*Please excuse the audio level inconsistencies of the episode as recording issues were impacted during the sermon. 

This week, we continue through the season of Advent focusing our attention on Joy. Pastoral Intern Brian Fu preaches from John 1:6-8, 19-28 and John 3:25-30, inviting us to learn from John the Baptist on how to declare joy into this broken world. 

This week, our Pastor for Community Engagement, Rev. Kristin Joyner, preaches from Mark 1:1-8, encouraging us to practice preemptive peace in our daily lives for the sake of the world!

This week, we enter into the season of Advent looking at how we might wait for the coming of hope with excitement and with expectancy! Pastor Joe preaches from Mark 13:24-37.

This week, our Pastoral Intern, Brian Fu, preaches from 1 Thessalonians 5:1-11, 16-18. In his message, he shares how giving thanks might be expressed through being firm in one's faith and loving one another. 

This week, we wrapped up a short two-week series on how we might most fully serve God! Turning to Joshua 24:1-3a, 14-25, Pastor Joe challenges us to make the intentional and conscious decision to fully serve God in worship, in loyalty, and in obedience! 

Today, we launched a short two-week series exploring the ways we serve God. This week, Pastor Joe Kim preached from Joshua 3:7-17 looking at the role of the priests as the people crossed the Jordan. How might God be calling us to shoulder the burden on behalf of the community? 

Today, we celebrate All Saints by remembering those who have gone before us this past year and those we carry with us on our hearts. Pastor Joe preaches from Deuteronomy 34:1-12 as he reminds us of God's ongoing story!

This episode we finish the short two-week series on the Psalms. Pastor Joe preaches on Psalm 96 and challenges us to experience this beloved Psalm with fresh perspectives while looking at the ways these words of old continue to speak life into us today. 

We've entered into a short two-week series on the Psalms looking at the ways these words of old continue to speak life into us today. This week, Pastor Joe preaches on Psalm 23 and challenges us to experience this beloved Psalm with fresh perspectives!

In this episode, Joe details pictures the work of Warner Solomon at the Chicago Temple. Those pictures can be found here! 

Today, we celebrate Native American Ministries and turn to Psalm 19 as Pastor Joe asks if we can imagine the vastness of God?