Sermons

February 14, 2021 "Transforming Love" - Dave Gombert ScriptureMark 9:2-9 Six days later, Jesus took with him Peter and James and John, and led them up a high mountain apart, by themselves. And he was transfigured before them,  and his clothes became dazzling white, such as no one on earth could bleach them.  And there appeared to them Elijah with M...

February 7, 2021 Chris Killgore & Christa Killgore ScriptureIsaiah 63:7-8 I will tell of the kindnesses of the Lord, the deeds for which he is to be praised, according to all the Lord has done for us—yes, the many good things he has done for Israel, according to his compassion and many kindnesses. He said, “Surely they are my people, children who will be true to m...

January 31, 2021 "Have You Been Chosen?" - Georgene Greene ScriptureOld Testament Lesson: Deuteronomy 18: 15-18 The Lord your God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among your own people; you shall heed such a prophet. This is what you requested of the Lord your God at Horeb on the day of the assembly when you said: “If I hear the vo...

January 24, 2021 "Love" - Rev. Virginia L. Heller ScriptureGospel Lesson: John 15:1-17 "I am the true vine, and my Father is the vinegrower.  He removes every branch in me that bears no fruit. Every branch that bears fruit he prunes to make it bear more fruit.  You have already been cleansed by the word that I have spoken to you.  Ab...

January 17, 2021 "Shalom" - Rev. Virginia L. Heller ScriptureGospel Lesson: John 5:1-15 After this there was a festival of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. Now in Jerusalem by the Sheep Gate there is a pool, called in Hebrew  Beth-zatha, which has five porticoes.  In these lay many invalids—blind, lame, and paralyzed. One man was there w...

January 10, 2021 "A Baptism of Peace" - Rev. Virginia L. Heller ScriptureGospel Lesson: Mark 1:4-11John the baptizer appeared in the wilderness, proclaiming a baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sins.  And people from the whole Judean countryside and all the people of Jerusalem were going out to him, and were baptized by him in the river Jordan, confes...

January 3, 2021 "The Gifts" - Rev. Virginia L. Heller ScriptureOld Testament Lesson: Isaiah 60:1-6 Arise, shine; for your light has come, and the glory of the Lord has risen upon you.  For darkness shall cover the earth, and thick darkness the peoples; but the Lord will arise upon you, and his glory will appear over you. Nations shall come to ...

December 27, 2020 "The Greatest Gift of All" - Rev. Virginia L. Heller ScriptureGospel Lesson: Matthew 2:13-23 Now after they had left, an angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream and said, “Get up, take the child and his mother, and flee to Egypt, and remain there until I tell you; for Herod is about to search for the child, to destroy him.”  Then J...

December 24, 2020 "And Baby Makes...Us One" - Rev. Virginia L. Heller ScriptureJohn 1:1-4 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God.  All things came into being through him, and without him not one thing came into being. What has come into being  in him was life, and the li...

December 20, 2020 "God is with us-Hear the Angel Voices" - Rev. Virginia L. Heller ScriptureLuke 1:8-14 Once when he was serving as priest before God and his section was on duty,  he was chosen by lot, according to the custom of the priesthood, to enter the sanctuary of the Lord and offer incense.  Now at the time of the incense offering, the whole assembly of the peo...