Join us for worship every Sunday at 9am and 10:30am in the Sanctuary and at 11:15am in Warehouse 839, in person or online (livestreaming or on demand). (You can watch on our website or on Facebook Live — Facebook instructions are HERE.)
Sermon titles, scripture verses, and preachers are listed HERE.
2025: The Whole Story
Building on the foundation of The Great Story (our 2022-2024 message series), our next two-year journey, The Whole Story, invites us to dive deeper into the story behind the Bible. Together we’ll explore how scripture came to be, how it has been interpreted across time, and how we can engage it with meaningful and important questions in our modern context. This series will focus on theological reflection, a practice that helps us balance scripture with tradition, reason, and experience to discern God’s will and grow in faith.
We will be guided by Romans 12:2 (NIV): “Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is—[God’s] good, pleasing and perfect will.” We will engage scripture as a dynamic and living text.
Starting in Lent, we will work our way backward through history, beginning with the present day and traveling all the way to the Old Testament, exploring how people throughout history have wrestled with theological questions in their own contexts and what we have learned since then that can deepen our understanding today.
This is an invitation to reflect, question, and grow in faith together, discovering how God’s story continues to shape and transform us.
Join us as we journey through
The Whole Story!
Lent Booklet: United Methodist Social Principles
These booklets support our message series, The Whole Story.
First Booklet: Our Theological Task
Sunday Messages
Reflecting Theologically in a Broken World:
Lamentations and the United Methodist Social Principles
Most services also livestream.
Wednesday, March 5 – ASH WEDNESDAY – 7am & 6:30pm worship, Sanctuary
A Covenant Renewal Service with a Collection of Readings and the Imposition of Ashes
March 9 – An Introduction to Lament & Social Principles
Lamentations 1:1-5, Matthew 5:4
Holy Communion
Pastor April preaching
March 16 – Community of All Creation: Theological Reflection & the Environment
Lamentations 2:6-8, Romans 8:18-26
Remembrance of Baptism
Pastor April speaking
March 23 – Economic Community: Theological Reflection & Economic Justice
Lamentations 2:11-13, 19, Isaiah 58:6-12
Holy Communion
Pastor Jon preaching
March 30 – Social Community: Theological Reflection & Social Justice
Lamentations 3:49-58, Luke 14:15-24
Remembrance of Baptism
Pastor April preaching
April 6 – Political Community (Part 1): Theological Reflection & Restorative Justice
Lamentations 4:5-8, 17-18 Isaiah 2:1-4
Holy Communion
Pastor Jon preaching
April 13 – Political Community (Part 2): Welcoming the Stranger
Lamentations 5:1-5, 19-22, Luke 19:41-44
Holy Communion
Pastor Jon preaching
Thursday, April 17 – MAUNDY THURSDAY – 7pm in Warehouse 839 & livestreaming
Washing of the Disciples Feet & the Commandment to Love One Another
John 13:1-17, 34-35
Prayer labyrinth in the gym 5:30-7pm & 8-9pm
Holy Communion
Pastor Jon leading
Friday, April 18 – GOOD FRIDAY – 7pm in the Sanctuary & livestreaming
Crucifixion of Christ, A Service of Lament, John 19:1-30, Isaiah 53:3-9
Pastor Jon leading
Saturday, April 19 – EASTER VIGIL – 7pm with our friends at Resurrection Evangelical Lutheran Church
3500 Main St, Hilliard 43026
April 20 – EASTER – New Life
John 20:1-18, Lamentations 5:21, 1 Corinthians 15: 19-26
Remembrance of Baptism
Pastor April preaching
Why Lamentations?
The book of Lamentations is a poetic expression of deep grief and sorrow, written in the wake of the destruction of Jerusalem and the exile of the Jewish people. Its verses capture the pain of loss, the weight of brokenness, and the yearning for renewal. Yet, amid its lament, Lamentations holds space for hope—a reminder that even in despair, God’s steadfast love and faithfulness remain.
In our WHOLE STORY journey through Lent, Lamentations offers us a framework to name and engage with the relevant griefs of our own time: the environmental crises, economic injustices, social inequalities, and political turmoil. Each week during worship, we will take time for confession—acknowledging where we have strayed from God’s path—and reflect on how we can align our work as a church more fully with God’s vision.
We will pair Lamentations with excerpts from the United Methodist Church’s recently updated Social Principles. Adopted by the 2024 General Conference, this is the first major rewrite of the Social Principles since their creation in 1972. The updated Social Principles are a renewed guide for how we, as followers of Christ, can live faithfully and justly in our communities. They address pressing issues of our time with clarity and hope, calling us to confront hard truths about our world while also challenging us to imagine and work toward a better one.
By sitting with the rawness of lament, alongside space for deeper theological reflection, we have an opportunity to see, confess, and respond to the ways we have fallen short of God’s vision for justice, mercy, and restoration. Lament will be a tool to face our reality with courage, allowing our grief to fuel thoughtful theological reflection that catalyzes faithful responses, as we draw closer to the renewal and resurrection of Easter.