“A return to civility is not enough. Civility is too often deployed when we find that we lack love. What the Lord requires of us is not civility, it is justice.”

Preacher: Amos Disasa
Date: October 28th, 2018
Scripture: Jeremiah 31:7-9

“When we are in the whirlwind, we are apt to assume that God must respond when we demand explanation for what life mysteriously prepared the first time around.”

Preacher: Amos Disasa
Date: October 21st, 2018
Scripture: Job 38:1-7, 34-41

“I've heard many of you say, "I love DOWNTOWN CHURCH, how can I help?" Here's how.”

Preacher: Dawn Hyde
Date: October 14th, 2018
Scripture: Mark 10:17-31

"The light only held for a moment and then it shifted away. My eyes beheld it, that oil smudge, illumined in the light, my fingerprint."

Preacher: Dawn Hyde
Date: October 7th, 2018
Scripture: Hebrews 1:1-4

"Prayer is as simple as acknowledging God’s presence. But, prayer is powerful when you expect change."

Preacher: Dawn Hyde
Date: September 30, 2018
Scripture: James 5:13-18

"Jesus is the Son of God, but he's also just a son."

Preacher: Dawn Hyde
Date: September 9, 2018
Scripture: Mark 7:24-30

"Jesus tells us that NOTHING has the power - just by going in - to make us damaged goods. It is what comes out that matters."

Preacher: Dawn Hyde
Date: September 2, 2018
Scripture: Mark 7:1-8, 14-15

"We need something extra, something eternal to ourselves, something real we can put on to summon strength from the outside in. Shoes help with this."

Preacher: Dawn Hyde
Date: August 26, 2018
Scripture: Ephesians 6:10-20

"Wisdom is the voice that's whispering in your ear all day, reminding you that the secret to life is that there is no secret."

Preacher: Amos Disasa
Date: August 19, 2018
Scripture: 1 Kings 2:10-12; 3:3-14

"He commands the clouds to move and fires to flare. He speaks and God hears. The the very next day he’s with us, afraid and broken, can’t get up because he gave up."

Preacher: Amos Disasa
Date: August 12, 2018
Scripture: 1 Kings 19:4-8

"What happens if the gift of grace that is ours to give and receive slowly and silently becomes an empty and unbelievable set of well worn phrases, and flimsy talking points, and irrelevant church chitter-chatter?"

Preacher: Amos Disasa
Date: August 5, 2018
Scripture: Ephesians 4:7-16

"People die when we use one another. People die and a part of us dies, too."

Preacher: Dawn Hyde
Date: July 29, 2018
Scripture: 2 Samuel 11:1-15

"If you start to do that every day, grasping every minute and every encounter with someone to be fully present to the pain and joy in their life as Christ would have you do, you will get tired. You might forget to eat. Or lose out on some sleep."

Preacher: Dawn Hyde
Date: July 22, 2018
Scripture: Mark 6:30-34

"It's dramatic on purpose: Herodias draws our attention away from her first sin to focus on her power over John the Baptist, his head on a platter." 

Preacher: Dawn Hyde
Date: July 15, 2018
Scripture: Mark 6:17-29

"The more I prayed that prayer, the more I got frustrated with God. I didn’t understand why God would lead us out on a boat that we might not survive."

Preacher: Dawn Hyde
Date: June 24, 2018
Scripture: Mark 4:35-41

"We tend to forget the small beginnings of big stories to make room for the more memorable grand finales. But every story worth telling, which is like every life worth living, starts small."

Preacher: Amos Disasa
Date: June 17, 2018
Scripture: Mark 4:26-34

"He  taught them a new song. A song of defiance in the face of demons. A song of delight in the midst of darkness."

Preacher: Amos Disasa
Date: June 10, 2018
Scripture: Mark 3:20-27

"The bow of the mighty will break. The barren will bear seven. Fortunes change."

Preacher: Dawn Hyde
Date: June 3, 2018
Scripture: 1 Samuel 2:1-5

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"She does something that would be unforgivable for someone in her role… She speaks. She speaks up. She speaks out. She says.'No.'"

Preacher: Dawn Hyde
Date: May 27, 2018
Scripture: 1 Kings 17:8-16

"Life gets fractured, love gets lost, bodies fail, an inexplicable tragedy changes the trajectory of our journey. And if we just knew that there was a part coming up where it said, "and then God groaned," would we be able to bear this momentary suffering?"

Preacher: Amos Disasa
Date: May 20, 2018
Scripture: Romans 8:22-27