John Gunter Sixty eight years ago the Ballard Marine Railway Company of Seattle Washington laid down the wooden hull parts for the construction of a Mark 1 motor class minesweeper. The wood came from the pine timbers of Oregon. She was given the name HMS J 826 and entered into service of the royal Navy. [...]
Tiffany Kromer (Tiffany’s sermons and other reflections are on her blog) Psalm 8 John 15:26-16:15 It is that time in our church year where we stop and reflect on one of the most important, yet mysterious and confusing doctrines of the Christian faith—the Trinity—the three in one, one in three. Now, there are many ways [...]
Marthame Sanders (Marthame’s sermons and other reflections are also available on his blog) Acts 2:1-21 Romans 8:14-17 Since I’ve been your pastor, it has been my practice to offer a kind of “state of the church” reflection on Pentecost Sunday. This year, we’ve been having an extended remix of that through our small group dinners [...]
(the service didn’t get recorded this week. sorry. But here’s a bonus special message from Marthame) Marthame Sanders (Marthame’s sermons and other reflections are also available on his blog) Psalm 97 Revelation 22:12-14, 16-17, 20-21 I was totally confused about how to start off today’s reflection until the mail came. I knew it must’ve been the [...]
Tiffany Kromer (Tiffany’s sermons and other reflections are on her blog) Psalm 67 Revelation 21:10, 22-25 Every time I read from the book of Revelation, an annoying song comes to my mind and becomes the soundtrack to my reading. I learned it when I was in middle school from a group of friends. The song [...]
The following prayer was read in worship this past Sunday, our “Preschool Sunday”. It is comprised entirely of our children’s prayers. Meghan Brown Saavedra, OPC’s student pastor, asked the children in Sunday School what they would like to pray for. She took their words and compiled them into the following “Prayers of the People”. ——————————— [...]
Marthame Sanders (Marthame’s sermons and other reflections are also available on his blog). Psalm 148 Revelation 21:1-6 The whole idea from this series on Revelation began with the notion that we need to spend some time de-mythologizing and re-engaging the book of Revelation. And in order to do so, we need to strip away the [...]