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2024 Message Series
The Great Story Continues
In 2022 we embarked on a year-long journey through the Old Testament with our Sunday message series The Great Story: Israel. In 2023 we continued The Great Story with the life of Jesus as told in the Gospel of Matthew.
We saw the arc of the story and the beautiful vision it unfolds for humanity: God is a God who wants above all to be in relationship with us and to build the Beloved Community among us here on earth.
This God continues to reveal love, presence, grace, generosity, and forgiveness not from a distance but right here with us. God comes into our world, arriving into our midst, often when we need it the most.
The Church
We turn the page to our final year of the Great Story series: the story of the church, as told to us in the Acts of the Apostles and the letters of Paul.
The story of the church is rooted in the story of Jesus, and the story of Jesus is grounded in the story of Israel that we find in the Old Testament, where we started this journey. It is truly one GREAT story that points us to a God who is revealing a love for ALL people, that we might allow this love to change us from the inside out – and that our collective transformation might bring forward God’s vision for a world where love, healing, and justice are at the core of how we live with one another.
We’re thrilled to be doing this all in partnership with Fairmont Presbyterian Church in Dayton. Their Lead Pastor, the Rev. Dr. Brian Maguire, and our Pastor April are good friends.
Sunday Messages
October 6 – Right Relations
Philemon
Pastor Jon speaking
October 13 – Gentiles & Jews are Saved by Faith
Galatians 2:15-21
Pastor April in dialogue with Brenda Martinez Nieves
October 20 – Law & Faith – CELEBRATION SUNDAY!
Galatians 3:6-14
Pastor April speaking
October 27 – The Purpose of the Law
Galatians 3:19-29
Professor Kate Common, Ph.D., speaking
November 3 – Christian Freedom – ALL SAINTS SUNDAY
Galatians 5:1-15
Pastor Jon speaking
November 10 – Work of the Flesh & Fruit of the Spirit
Galatians 5:16-26
Pastor April speaking
November 17 – The Supremacy of Christ
Hebrews 1:1-4
Pastor Jon speaking
November 24 – A Benediction to the Church, A Sending Forth
Hebrews 13:20-21
Pastor April speaking
December 1 – ADVENT 1 – HOPE – A Vision of Christ
Revelation 1:12-18
Pastor April speaking
December 8 – ADVENT 2 – JOY – SPECIAL MUSIC SUNDAY
Pastor Jon speaking
December 15 – ADVENT 3 – LOVE – Call to the Churches
Revelation 3:14-22
Pastor April speaking
December 22 – ADVENT 4 – PEACE – A New Heaven & A New Earth
Revelation 21:1-4
Pastor April speaking
December 24 – CHRISTMAS EVE
Luke 2:1-18
Pastor Jon speaking
2025: The Whole Story
Building off our work in The Great Story, we will look at the story behind the Bible, how it came to us, and how we can ask meaningful and important questions as we learn and engage this gift.
We will ask important questions about the text. We’ll test those against a diversity of perspectives. We’ll discern together what some of this means for us in 2025.
Details coming soon!