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January 17, 2021 – Pastor Teressa SiversActs 10:1-3, 34-43 (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) “I really am learning that God doesn’t show partiality of one group over another.” That sentence, the beginning of Peter’s sermon in chapter 10, is the center of the book of Acts on which the whole narrative turns. “God doesn’t show partiality…”...

Sunday, January 10, 2021 – Pastor Teressa SiversActs 19:1-7 & Mark 1:4-11 The Rev. Dr. Willie Jennings—today he is a professor of theology and Africana studies at Yale University. In the late 90s and early 2000s, he was a theology and black church studies professor at Duke University Divinity School where I was attending seminary. Rev. Jennings was a favorite preacher in our York Chapel in the Divinity school for midweek...

Epiphany Worship Series 2021 In the season of Epiphany, God reveals or shows us who God ultimately is in and through the life and ministry of Jesus the Christ. We begin with the coming of the Magi, who show us that Jesus is for all people. As we explore once again what Jesus reveals to us about God, the Word Made Flesh, we also are shown who we are called to be as followers of Jesus, as followers of Jesus’ Way. As we begin a new year...

Followers of the Way Worship SeriesEpiphany Sunday: January 3, 2021 – Pastor Teressa SiversIsaiah 60:1-6 & Matthew 2:1-12 The Give-Away: A Christmas Story in the Native American Tradition by Ray Buckley Experience reading the story on YouTube “They do not know who they are…” “They do not know who they are…” That is the summary of the heartbreaking verdict shared by the animal council in our children’s time story today, a...

Centering and Introduction The first watch night service was on December 31, 1862, as African Americans, both slave and free, gathered in churches and homes across our nation, and waited and watched for the new year, 1863, when the Emancipation Proclamation went into effect. Watch Night—Freedom Night. Every year since, New Year’s Eve is a time for the black community to remember a time when they were enslaved and a time when freedom...