Sermons
Baptism and Solidarity
Queries:
What are sustainable and sustaining ways of organizing our lives together?
What kinds of practices and rituals provide me sustenance?
What way of seeing others and myself will sustain us–all of us?
How can we sustain the ministry of Jesus, right now? Where is that ministry needed?
You Sustained Me
Queries:
What sustenance do I receive from this community? What sustenance do I need?
How do and can we sustain each other in the challenges each of us are facing?
What sustenance do we provide those outside of our community?
How can I participate in ways that help sustain the life and ministry of CFC?
Joy is Resistance
Queries:
How does Mary’s joyous song speak to you today?
What difference does joy make?
What is bringing you joy? How is joy sustaining you, in this season?
How have you witnessed or experienced joy as an act of resistance?
The Saving Work of Peace
Queries:
What is Peace? What is the way to peace?
From what does our world need to be saved?
Where are the peacemakers? How can we join in their saving work?
How can we plant the seeds of peace? How can we nourish those seeds?
Extended Open Worship
Queries:
What does it mean to me to wait for Christ? To be ready for Christ?
“Keep awake.” Why? What helps me “keep awake”?
Am I ready for anticipated and unanticipated needs? How can I be ready?
Where do hospitality and hope intersect?
Is this text more reassuring or more unsettling? Why?
How do the images of people being “taken” or separated hit me, today?
What does this passage mean to me in light of Matthew 25–an image of a Christ who comes to us in the hungry, the stranger, and the sick?
Staying Human (Guest Speaker: Laura Simmons)
Laura Simmons is a recorded minister with Sierra Cascades Yearly Meeting of Friends and a member of West Hills Friends Meeting. She taught at what was then called George Fox Seminary for 17 years, on subjects from communication to reconciliation to teaching. Laura now splits her time between being an on-call chaplain and running a freelance writing and editing business (new clients always welcome!).
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