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Good Food: Hungry for Hope (December 1, 2024)
Welcome to Advent! This is a season of preparation, of making our hearts and minds ready to receive the good news that God has come to us once again. It’s also a season of waiting and longing, not only for the celebrations of Christmas but for Christ’s return, when our hope will become sight and…
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All Saints Sunday: An Eternal Hope – November 3, 2024
The lectionary doesn’t give us passages from the book of Revelation very often, because it’s truly a little terrifying and can be tricky to interpret. But today, we’re going to hear from the very end of the book – the second-to-last chapter – which offers us a vision of what God intends eternity to look…
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Who We Are: The Work of Love – October 27, 2024
Today, we’re wrapping up our three-week series introducing and diving deep into Parkwood’s mission statement. If you’ve missed the last two weeks, I encourage you to check out our YouTube channel to catch up – this will make more sense in context, I promise. Our Mission is this:Rooted in Christ’s love, Parkwood Presbyterian Church seeks…
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Who We Are: Growing in Love for God – October 20, 2024
Today, we continue our deep dive into Parkwood’s Mission Statement, looking at where it came from, how it shapes who we are as a church community and what we do. It goes like this: Rooted in Christ’s love, Parkwood Presbyterian Church seeks to grow in love for God and neighbor. This love is the work…
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Who We Are: Rooted in Christ’s Love – October 13, 2024
In 2021, as we began to emerge from the chaos of pandemic life, we as a congregation and the elders at the time engaged in a process of thinking, planning, dreaming, and discerning. Out of that process came two statements: a statement of our mission, our answer to the question “why are we here?”, and…
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The Election & Parkwood: What To Expect
A Note from Pastor Sarah This past weekend, I met up with a friend who lives in Tennessee for lunch. She’s in town for a few days, just visiting, but one of the first things she told me was “oh my goodness, THE COMMERCIALS. How do you do this?!” She, of course, meant the incessant…
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Playing Together – World Communion Sunday, October 6, 2024
Today, we meet Jesus in the gospel according to Mark. We find him in the middle of his travelling ministry – in chapters 9 and 10, he’s been in Capernaum, travelling through Galilee, and now he’s in Judea and the region beyond the Jordan. A group of religious leaders just came up to test Jesus,…
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Seeds & Shelter – 30th Anniversary Sermon, 9/22/24
Our Scripture reading this morning comes from the gospel according to Matthew. It’s a short one, just two verses, so let’s zoom out and get a little context. This whole chapter is full of parables, with Jesus repeating over and over and over again ‘the kingdom of heaven is like…’ It’s like a little bit…
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Inside Thoughts – 9/15/24 Sermon
We find ourselves once again in the book of James this morning. If you were with us last week, you might remember that James is zeroed in on the internal workings of the Christian community – reminding the people who are already seeking to follow Jesus of what we are called to be and do…
