Couldn’t make it to worship this week? Know someone who could use inspiration? That’s why God gave us podcasts!
We all need to be reminded of the Good News of God’s love in Christ for us and for the whole world, and what it means for how we live. So listen and share with a friend.
Come Holy Spirit | Sermon| Pentecost | 6.5.22
he Holy Spirit, our advocate and helper, is within and among us today just as on that day of Pentecost so many years ago. We cannot hold all the pain and suffering nor all the joy and new life that the world has to offer right now, but God can and does. Come Holy Spirit, like a fire refine us that we can live your love. Come Holy Spirit, like wind move us from this place…
I Have No Words, But God Gives Us Language | Sermon | John 17 | 5.29.22
What can we say at a time like this? What energy and ethos will keep us moving toward abundant life for all and give us the courage to make real change so that life begins right here and right now? One of my seminary professors day after day would remind us in class, “God gives us a language to…
But We Had Hoped… | Sermon | Easter 6 | Luke 24:13-35 | 5.22.22
Two disciples are on the road grieving. Jesus shows up, listens to their dashed hopes, and points them to the good news. Then breaks bread and sends them to share that good news. There is so much we had hoped for that we are carrying in grief. Jesus joins us as we walk, listens, asks us to share…
A Vision of Love that Looks Like Jesus | Sermon | Easter 5 | John 13:31-35 | 5.15.22
Peter has to relay his vision of God’s love that shows no partiality to the rest of the church. We’re seeking to catch a glimpse of God’s vision for Spirit in the Hills and our strategic planning team will be sharing it with us this year. We don’t have the full vision yet,…
Sermon | Easter 4 | John 10:22-30 | Mission Developer Katy Miles-Wallace | 5.8.22
Katy Miles-Wallace, the mission developer of Technicolor Ministries joined us on Sunday, May 8th to share what God is up to in and through Technicolor Ministries and proclaim God’s good news. “To be sheep of the Good Shepherd means that we must believe, listen, and follow. It means that…
Sermon | Easter 3 | John 21:1-19 | Pastor Lea Walker-Clark | 5.1.22
We welcomed Pastor Lea Walker-Clark, pastor and mission developer of Palabra de Vida in Austin on May 1st to proclaim the gospel and share what God is up to as they begin this new community of faith. “So keep loving, Church. Keep learning, Church. Keep sharing and serving, dear Church. For if…
Faith, Belief, Trust: An Encounter with the Risen Christ | Sermon | John 20 | 4.24.22
Behold The Cross | Sermon | Good Friday 4.15.22
When we behold the cross, what do we see? We see pain and suffering and our capacity for violence. We see an offer of forgiveness and another way of life. We see God knows the depths of human suffering. We see us doing our best to stop unstoppable love.
Faith, Belief, Trust: An Encounter with the Risen Christ | Sermon | John 20 | 4.24.22
Faith is both head work and heart work. We trust in God and then seek to grow in understanding who God is and who God is calling us to be and become. We bring our questions and our doubts with us, and even when we cannot bring ourselves to show up, Christ shows up with us, loves us, blesses us, and…
Love and Live Resurrection | Sermon | Luke 24 | Easter 4.17.22
Resurrection is God’s ultimate statement that there is hope and that love and life have the last word, not sin and death. In Christ’s resurrection we see and hear the greatest reminder that God loves us. Then we receive the call to live the good news of resurrection, of God’s way…