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Lenten Worship Series 2021 A Sanctified Art LLC | sanctifiedart.org In the season of Lent, we are reminded that, again & again, suffering and brokenness find us. We doubt again, we lament again, we mess up again. Again & again, the story of Jesus on the cross repeats—every time lives are taken unjustly, every time the powerful choose corruption and violence, every time individuals forget how to love. With exacerbation we...

February 7, 2021 – Reconciling Sunday – Pastor Teressa SiversActs 10:23b-34 God who is Justice; May the words that we speak, and the actions that we engage in, be a reflection of your Dream for all your people, for all your creation. Amen and Amen. Audre Lorde was an outspoken, feminist, civil rights activist, born in February of 1934, and she died in November of 1992. Why don’t I let her introduce herself through the...

Sunday, January 31, 2021 – Pastor Teressa SiversActs 10:9-23 Author of compassion, Open us—heart, mind, body and soul—to your way. Amen. St. Paul’s United Methodist Church—a compassionate community led and transformed by the Spirit…that is our vision, our goal, who we strive to be. A Compassionate community—a group of compassionate people—a vital part of becoming Beloved Community. I would argue that ALL churches should hold...

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Sunday, January 24, 2021 – Pastor Teressa SiversActs 10:4b-8, 44-48 (We will be exploring the story of Cornelius and Peter for 4 Sundays. Feel free to read Acts 10:1-11:18 for the whole story) Let us pray: Spirit, Spirit of gentleness, blow through the wilderness of our lives, calling and free. Spirit, Spirit of restlessness, stir us from placidness; Wind, Flame, Breath…Love. Amen. “Danger, Will Robinson, Danger!” This is...