You can choose to watch all of this Sunday's worship service in a series of linked videos, one after the other, by clicking this link. Just press the button that says "PLAY ALL" and sit back and relax. You can also just click on the graphic to the left.​ Otherwise, proceed as normal through the sections.

You can choose to watch all of this Sunday's worship service in a series of linked videos, one after the other, by clicking this link. Just press the button that says "PLAY ALL" and sit back and relax. You can also just click on the graphic to the left.​ Otherwise, proceed as normal through the sections.

You can choose to watch all of this Sunday's worship service in a series of linked videos, one after the other, by clicking this link. Just press the button that says "PLAY ALL" and sit back and relax. You can also just click on the graphic to the left.​ Otherwise, proceed as normal through the sections.

Amidst a season of collective pain, they conceived of something new and unexpected, radically improving the lives of their neighbors and themselves. Perhaps they have something to teach these three servants about how best to use the “talents” they are given!

What if the last servant in this parable Jesus tells buried the wrong thing? Should he have used his talent, and buried his fear? Or was he right to take ill-gotten wealth out of circulation so it could no longer be used destructively in an unjust economy?
 
Jesus told parables, not allegories with coded meanings needing only a key to discover the “true meaning.” Jesus told parables like the one of the super-wealthy man who went on a journey and entrusted enormous sums to three servants while he was gone. This is a parable that defies any simple interpretation and instead invites us every time we encounter it to ask interesting questions of it and our own lives. There is always more “there” there. What for you, what for us this day?
 
Enter into worship. 

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​Who might we identify as our “sentry cranes”? Who are those in our midst who remain awake even as the rest of us sleep? Who are the ones crying out to warn us of impending danger? Amos has his own take on what puts us in danger—empty religion as a tool of oppression, lacking justice and righteousness. Jesus’ parable remains more troublesome to understand in our own time. But stay awake, we must, to the Word coming to us.
 
Enter into worship. Join the celebration awaiting us. 

You can choose to watch all of this Sunday's worship service in a series of linked videos, one after the other, by clicking this link. Just press the button that says "PLAY ALL" and sit back and relax. You can also just click on the graphic to the left.​ Otherwise, proceed as normal through the sections.

To know others have been before us, to remember that we are not alone in this work of being human, to know that God is with us is to begin to name the hope we have as children of the Just and Compassionate One.
 
So prepare for this day. Find a candle, or many and light them. Our preacher will invite us to do just that if you haven’t already. Give thanks for those who have led the way for us, mentored us, guarded and guided us, finished the race. And remember that you are doing the same for others. Be challenged and inspired. Look for the hope that surrounds us. Be that hope for others. Enter into worship.