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    • Jul 17, 2025 LATEST EPISODE
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    Rhythm and Word - July 16, 2025

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 17, 2025 4:35


    Joe Morrow continues a series about the people who have shaped his faith journey and views. Joe takes us back to 1933, reflecting on the writings of Dorothy Day in the Catholic Worker and focusing on her involvement in community building through hospitality houses during a time of economic collapse. How can we each take inspiration from Dorothy Day to make individual efforts to show similar hospitality to others?

    Service - July 13, 2025

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 17, 2025 83:09


    The worship service recording includes both pre-service and post-service music. View PDF of worship bulletin |  (Right-click on link and open it in a new tab if you want podcast to keep playing)

    Sermon - July 13, 2025

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 17, 2025 20:14


    A sermon by Nancy Benson-Nicol. View PDF of worship bulletin |  (Right-click on link and open it in a new tab if you want podcast to keep playing)

    Rhythm and Word - July 9, 2025

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 9, 2025 6:17


    Associate Pastor Joe Morrow continues a series about the people who have shaped his faith journey and views.  Joe reflects on the writings of mystic and Trappist monk Thomas Merton, focusing on the movement from the mind to the heart and opening ourselves to the mystical, which inspires us to find peace with others, ourselves, and with God.

    Service - July 6, 2025

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 8, 2025 76:24


    The worship service recording includes both pre-service and post-service music. View PDF of worship bulletin |  (Right-click on link and open it in a new tab if you want podcast to keep playing)

    Sermon - July 6, 2025

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 8, 2025 22:26


    A sermon by Rocky Supinger. View PDF of worship bulletin |  (Right-click on link and open it in a new tab if you want podcast to keep playing)

    Rhythm and Word - July 2, 2025

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 3, 2025 6:31


    With this podcast Associate Pastor Joe Morrow begins a new series about the people who have shaped his faith journey and views. Joe reflects on the neighbor-focused theology of missionary Kōsuke Koyama as presented in his book, Water Buffalo Theology. We use this theology to ask ourselves if we are here to harm or to help our neighbors.

    Service - June 29, 2025

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 1, 2025 61:55


    The worship service recording includes both pre-service and post-service music. View PDF of worship bulletin |  (Right-click on link and open it in a new tab if you want podcast to keep playing)

    Sermon - June 29, 2025

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 1, 2025 12:25


    A sermon by Bob Hagel. View PDF of worship bulletin |  (Right-click on link and open it in a new tab if you want podcast to keep playing)

    Rhythm and Word - June 25, 2025

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 25, 2025 6:32


    Rocky Supinger concludes the series on G. K. Chesterton's Heretics and Orthodoxy by discussing how Chesterton argued that some ideal must motivate political engagement. We reflect on how Chesterton proposed “reform” as an alternative to the ideals of “evolution” or “progress” that were popular during his time.

    Service - June 22, 2025

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 25, 2025 72:25


    The worship service recording includes both pre-service and post-service music. View PDF of worship bulletin |  (Right-click on link and open it in a new tab if you want podcast to keep playing)

    Sermon - June 22, 2025

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 25, 2025 21:12


    A sermon by Rocky Supinger. View PDF of worship bulletin |  (Right-click on link and open it in a new tab if you want podcast to keep playing)

    Rhythm and Word - June 18, 2025

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 19, 2025 6:21


    Rocky Supinger continues the series on G.K. Chesterton's Heretics and Orthodoxy by discussing the central experience of faith, which is the central experience of life — mystery and familiarity — at the same time. We reflect on how life within this faith is “eternal” life. It goes on like this forever, not because of us, but also never without us.    

    Service - June 15, 2025

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 18, 2025 70:49


    The worship service recording includes both pre-service and post-service music. View PDF of worship bulletin |  (Right-click on link and open it in a new tab if you want podcast to keep playing)

    Sermon - June 15, 2025

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 18, 2025 19:53


    A sermon by Tom Are Jr. View PDF of worship bulletin |  (Right-click on link and open it in a new tab if you want podcast to keep playing)

    Rhythm and Word - June 11, 2025

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 12, 2025 6:56


    Rocky Supinger continues the series on G.K. Chesterton's Heretics and Orthodoxy by discussing the relationship of place to our faith. We reflect on how our love of places is an expression of our love for the people with whom we share those places. Our love for the place we live is, ultimately, an expression of our love of God.   

    Service - June 8, 2025

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 12, 2025 79:39


    The worship service recording includes both pre-service and post-service music. View PDF of worship bulletin |  (Right-click on link and open it in a new tab if you want podcast to keep playing)

    Sermon - June 8, 2025

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 12, 2025 18:15


    A sermon by Tom Are Jr. View PDF of worship bulletin |  (Right-click on link and open it in a new tab if you want podcast to keep playing)

    Rhythm and Word - June 4, 2025

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 4, 2025 7:09


    This podcast is the first of four in a series on the works that have had the greatest impact on Senior Associate Pastor Rocky Supinger's faith — Heretics and Orthodoxy by British novelist and essayist Gilbert Keith Chesterton. This evening we reflect on how Chesterton's writings were about the kind of outlook on life that faith should give us — a life of purpose. The Lord didn't really give the disciples a detailed process for doing that or insist on a metric of efficiency. Rather, he gave us an aim to pursue, a wild, seemingly unattainable aim. The strength of our faith will be measured, then, in our commitment to that aim — not in spite of the aim's grandiosity, but because of it.  

    Service - June 1, 2025

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 1, 2025 80:02


    The worship service recording includes both pre-service and post-service music. View PDF of worship bulletin |  (Right-click on link and open it in a new tab if you want podcast to keep playing)

    Sermon - June 1, 2025

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 1, 2025 18:28


    A sermon by Tom Are Jr. View PDF of worship bulletin |  (Right-click on link and open it in a new tab if you want podcast to keep playing)

    Rhythm and Word - May 28, 2025

    Play Episode Listen Later May 28, 2025 8:37


    Here to the story of Priscilla and Aquila in Acts 18:1–4, 18–27. As we think about these verses and others where they are mentioned, Matt Helms invites us to consider how Priscilla and Aquila are teachers to the teachers of the early church. We also give thanks for those who have shaped our own spiritual lives, just as Priscilla and Aquila did in the early church.

    Service - May 25, 2025

    Play Episode Listen Later May 27, 2025 77:03


    The worship service recording includes both pre-service and post-service music. View PDF of worship bulletin |  (Right-click on link and open it in a new tab if you want podcast to keep playing)

    Sermon - May 25, 2025

    Play Episode Listen Later May 27, 2025 24:45


    A sermon by Tom Are Jr. View PDF of worship bulletin |  (Right-click on link and open it in a new tab if you want podcast to keep playing)

    Rhythm and Word - May 21, 2025

    Play Episode Listen Later May 26, 2025 8:12


    Today we turn to the story of Lydia in Acts 16:11–14. As we think about that text, Matt Helms invites us to consider how representative Lydia is of how the church was able to grow and sustain itself as it spread in the Roman Empire. We also ponder how these stories of those in the early church speak to the importance of every member of the church being invested in the work that we are called to do.

    Service - May 18, 2025

    Play Episode Listen Later May 26, 2025 87:08


    The worship service recording includes both pre-service and post-service music. View PDF of worship bulletin |  (Right-click on link and open it in a new tab if you want podcast to keep playing)

    Sermon - May 18, 2025

    Play Episode Listen Later May 26, 2025 19:34


    A sermon by Rocky Supinger. View PDF of worship bulletin |  (Right-click on link and open it in a new tab if you want podcast to keep playing)

    Rhythm and Word - May 14, 2025

    Play Episode Listen Later May 26, 2025 7:55


    In this podcase we turn to the story of a meeting between Peter and Cornelius in Acts 10.  As we think about that text, Matt Helms invites us to consider how Cornelius helps Peter — and us today — to realize that the church is not beholden to the way that things have always been and that the church is dynamic and always changing.

    Service - May 11, 2025

    Play Episode Listen Later May 14, 2025 79:15


    The worship service recording includes both pre-service and post-service music. View PDF of worship bulletin |  (Right-click on link and open it in a new tab if you want podcast to keep playing)

    Sermon - May 11, 2025

    Play Episode Listen Later May 14, 2025 13:38


    A sermon by Matt Helms. View PDF of worship bulletin |  (Right-click on link and open it in a new tab if you want podcast to keep playing)

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    Rhythm and Word - May 7, 2025

    Play Episode Listen Later May 14, 2025 8:29


    Drawing from Acts 9:36–43, Matt Helms invites us to consider Tabitha's discipleship and quiet leadership in the early church, touching the lives of so many with her good works and charity.

    Service - May 4, 2025

    Play Episode Listen Later May 14, 2025 82:45


    The worship service recording includes both pre-service and post-service music. View PDF of worship bulletin |  (Right-click on link and open it in a new tab if you want podcast to keep playing)

    Sermon - May 4, 2025

    Play Episode Listen Later May 14, 2025 18:40


    A sermon by Tom Are Jr. View PDF of worship bulletin |  (Right-click on link and open it in a new tab if you want podcast to keep playing)

    Rhythm and Word - April 30, 2025

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 30, 2025 7:46


    In this installment, we turn to Philip and the baptism of the Ethiopian eunuch in Acts 8:26–39.  Matt Helms invites us to consider how this interaction showed openness and welcome in the early church as Philip baptized the eunuch even though the eunuch was not part of a faith community. We also pause to ask how we might similarly welcome and embrace people where they are on their faith journeys today.

    Service - April 27, 2025

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 28, 2025 78:27


    The worship service recording includes both pre-service and post-service music. View PDF of worship bulletin |  (Right-click on link and open it in a new tab if you want podcast to keep playing)

    Sermon - April 27, 2025

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 28, 2025 20:12


    An Easter sermon by Nanette Sawyer. View PDF of worship bulletin |  (Right-click on link and open it in a new tab if you want podcast to keep playing)

    Rhythm and Word - April 23, 2025

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 28, 2025 8:40


    Associate Pastor Matt Helms leads our reflection on how those who worked behind the scenes in the early church provide us with examples of how we all can fill such roles and responsibilities as the church today.

    Service - April 20, 2025 (Easter)

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 28, 2025 77:02


    The worship service recording includes both pre-service and post-service music. View PDF of worship bulletin |  (Right-click on link and open it in a new tab if you want podcast to keep playing)

    Sermon - April 20, 2025 (Easter)

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 28, 2025 14:58


    An Easter sermon by Tom Are Jr. View PDF of worship bulletin |  (Right-click on link and open it in a new tab if you want podcast to keep playing)

    Rhythm and Word - April 13, 2025

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 16, 2025 5:59


    A short midweek Lenten reflection by Nancy Benson-Nicol, Associate Pastor Exploring Matthew 27 and Psalm 22 as resources for reflection on our Lenten journey and in preparation for Easter.

    Service - April 13, 2025

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 16, 2025 84:22


    The worship service recording includes both pre-service and post-service music. View PDF of worship bulletin |  (Right-click on link and open it in a new tab if you want podcast to keep playing)

    Sermon - April 13, 2025

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 16, 2025 20:27


    A Palm Sunday sermon by Tom Are Jr. View PDF of worship bulletin |  (Right-click on link and open it in a new tab if you want podcast to keep playing)

    Rhythm and Word - April 9, 2025

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 9, 2025 9:43


    A short midweek Lenten reflection by Joe Morrow, Associate Pastor Exploring Psalm 139 as a resource for reflection on our Lenten journey and in preparation for Easter.

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    Service - April 6, 2025

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 9, 2025 80:22


    The worship service recording includes both pre-service and post-service music. View PDF of worship bulletin |  (Right-click on link and open it in a new tab if you want podcast to keep playing)

    Sermon - April 6, 2025

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 9, 2025 16:20


    A sermon by Tom Are Jr. View PDF of worship bulletin |  (Right-click on link and open it in a new tab if you want podcast to keep playing)

    Rhythm and Word - April 2, 2025

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 3, 2025 8:20


    A short midweek Lenten reflection by Nancy Benson-Nicol, Associate Pastor Exploring the book of Psalms as a resource for reflection on our Lenten journey and in preparation for Easter.

    Service - March 30, 2025

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 3, 2025 72:43


    The worship service recording includes both pre-service and post-service music. View PDF of worship bulletin |  (Right-click on link and open it in a new tab if you want podcast to keep playing)

    Sermon - March 30, 2025

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 3, 2025 18:14


    A sermon by Tom Are Jr. View PDF of worship bulletin |  (Right-click on link and open it in a new tab if you want podcast to keep playing)

    Rhythm and Word - March 26, 2025

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 26, 2025 8:50


    A short midweek Lenten reflection by Joseph L. Morrow, Associate Pastor Exploring the book of Psalms as a resource for reflection on our Lenten journey and in preparation for Easter.

    Service - March 23, 2025

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 26, 2025 80:49


    The worship service recording includes both pre-service and post-service music. View PDF of worship bulletin |  (Right-click on link and open it in a new tab if you want podcast to keep playing)

    Sermon - March 23, 2025

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 26, 2025 20:31


    A sermon by Tom Are Jr. View PDF of worship bulletin |  (Right-click on link and open it in a new tab if you want podcast to keep playing)

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