Pray with us. If you haven’t gotten a chance to view our online service, go here to our Online Sunday Service . In this episode, the Rev. Thomas Skillings offers today’s sermon. He encourages us to dare to be open to change...like Jesus was and like so many people in generations past. We then invite you to sing along to the hymn, There's a wideness in God's mercy.
Pray with us. If you haven’t gotten a chance to view our online service, go here to our Online Sunday Service . In this episode, the Rev. Julie Graham offers today’s sermon. She encourages pick a prayer practice that gets to the heart of what is going on with us and with our relationship with God. Listen to the congregation sing, Ana Hernandez's Be still and know that I am God.
Pray with us. If you haven’t gotten a chance to view our online service, go here to our Online Sunday Service . In this episode, the Rev. Thomas Skillings offers today’s sermon. He encourages us to read the story of the multiplication of loaves as God's invitation to know we will be cared for when we think we've reached our limits. Listen to the congregation sing, Guide me, O though great Jehovah....
Pray with us. If you haven’t gotten a chance to view our online service, go here to our Online Sunday Service . In this episode, Jocelyn A. Sideco offers today’s sermon. She invites us to practice Ignatian Spirituality by recognizing God's presence in our desires and imagination. And together we explore Dr. Rev. Martin Luther King's Beloved Community and begin to ask ourselves, how would I finish the following sentence: "The Kingdom of Heaven is like..." Listen to the congregation sing, Seek ye ...
Pray with us. If you haven’t gotten a chance to view our online service, go here to our Online Sunday Service . In this episode, Pastor Pete Garrison offers today’s sermon. He invites us to be in conversation, in relationship, in prayer with Jesus. God loves us first. That’s what moves us to love in thanksgiving. We are, at once, Saint and Sinner, wheat and weed. Listen! Since grace is mediated by means, how does God show up in your life? Pastor Pete suggests we talk to Jesus and say, “Thank you...
Pray with us. If you haven’t gotten a chance to view our online service, go here to our Online Sunday Service . In this episode, Retired 7th Episcopal Bishop of California, The Very Rt. Rev. William E. Swing offers today’s sermon. This excerpt leads him to ask these questions: “What if we rose together? The hurt of the world, is the seed of heaven that is scattered in the hearts of everyone everywhere. Will it take root in the heart and grow into the harvest of compassionate living? What if a se...
Pray with us. If you haven’t gotten a chance to view our online service, go here to our Online Sunday Service . In this episode, Thomas gets serious. He confesses that we are late to this generational moment or movement towards a more just society. We then sing to "So the day dawns for me." After I close, stay tuned for a special bonus: Dr. Matthews plays Charles Ives' fifth movement of Variations on America, Allegro....
It’s Pride Sunday! Pray with us. If you haven’t gotten a chance to view our special Pride Sunday online service, go here to our Online Sunday Service . In this episode, we continue to reach beyond our church walls, just as Jesus does. Listen to a shared sermon connecting the ideas that unify the Gay community through Gilbert Baker’s Pride Flag, reflect on your own practice of welcome and welcoming others, pray for peace in your heart and in the hearts of all in our society as the congregation le...
Pray with us. For those who missed us on Sunday, participate in the entire service by going here to our Online Sunday Service . Listen and pray together as Julie acknowledges our real fear AND reminds us that God's love is real, too. Then sing Morning glory, starlit sky together.
Pray with us. For those who missed us on Sunday, participate in the entire service by going here to our Online Sunday Service . Listen and pray together as Thomas encourages us to be bold sheep always seeking unity and receive a blessing from our youngest singers.
Pray with us. For those who missed us on Sunday, participate in the entire service by going here to our Online Sunday Service . Listen and pray together as Thomas reminds us of the power of the Trinity. We join our voices to the age-old struggle, Lift Every Voice and Sing.
Pray with us. For those who missed us on Sunday, participate in the entire service by going here to our Online Sunday Service . Listen and pray together as Julie reminds us to breathe in the Spirit. Our virtual choir sing a Hymn to the Eternal Flame.
Pray with us. For those who missed us on Sunday, participate in the entire service by going here to our Online Sunday Service . Listen and pray together as Jocelyn reflects on the 2 Paracletes who teach, remind, abide, testify, and deal with truth in our lives. Our virtual choir premieres our Composer-in-Residence Patricia Van Ness's Psalm 103.
Pray with us. For those who missed us on Sunday, participate in the entire service by going here to our Online Sunday Service . Listen and pray together as we all sing Come, my Way, my Truth, my Life and listen to Thomas' words of deep consideration and contemplation during this new moment in our society's story.
Pray with us. For those who missed us on Sunday, participate in the entire service by going here to our Online Sunday Service . Listen and pray together as Thomas shares a word about Thanks and Praise and the Men's Choir share their 2016 recording of Bobby McFerrin's beautiful arrangement of Psalm 23.
Pray with us. For those who missed us on Sunday, participate in the entire service by going here to our Online Sunday Service . Listen and pray together as the choir sings Josef Rheinberger's Abendlied. The text is based on Luke 24:29, "stay with us, because it is almost evening and the day is now nearly over." Then Julie reflects on the Emmaus story and invites us to consider how the resurrected Christ breaks though in our lives, unexpectedly....
Pray with us. For those who missed us on Sunday, participate in the entire service by going here to our Online Sunday Service . Listen and pray together with Sunday's Gospel passage, consider the words prepared by Rev. Thomas Skillings, and reflect deeper with Fanny Hensel's April by Dr. Matthews.
Pray with us. For those who missed us on Sunday, participate in the entire service by going here to our Online Sunday Service . We also have 3 Holy Week Special episodes posted within that Playlist. Listen and pray together, consider the words prepared by Rev. Thomas Skillings. What is the gift of Easter during this pandemic?
Pray with us. For those who missed us on Sunday, participate in the entire service by going here to our Online Sunday Service . Listen and pray with Elizabeth Kimble's Sanctus premiered by the Virtual Choir of St. Paul's. Consider the words prepared by Rev. Thomas Skillings. What does it mean to be the most courageous you during the pandemic?
Pray with us. For those who missed us on Sunday, participate in the entire service by going here to our Online Sunday Service . Listen and pray with Hymn 750, "So the Day Dawn for Me" sung and played by Dr. Susan Matthews and the St. Paul's Choir and consider the words prepared by Rev. Thomas Skillings. Can you simply be with another person's suffering? Can you wait for God to move and give life?
Pray with us. For those who missed us on Sunday, participate in the entire service by going here to our Online Sunday Service . Listen in on the first verse of Amazing Grace played and sung Dr. Susan Matthews and the St. Paul's Choir, consider the words prepared by Rev. Thomas Skillings. What are you anxious about? How might you finds ways to trust God?
Pray with us. For those who missed us on Sunday, participate in the entire service by going here to our first Online Liturgy. Listen in on the first verse of We Shall Walk in Peace played and sung Dr. Susan Matthews and quintet of St. Paul's Choir singers, consider the words prepared by Rev. Thomas Skillings and reflect, if only for a moment, on just how prayer can lead to deeper action for yourself and others during this temporary new normal....
Pray here. Together. Our guest preacher, the Rev. Ellen Wondra reflects on the readings for the second Sunday in Lent, when Nicodemus, a leader of the Jews, asks Jesus what he means by being renewed by the Spirit. On International Women's Day, Ellen suggests that God has always and continues to invite us to be made whole through the work of the Spirit in our midst. Also listen to the Choir premier our composer-in-residence, Patricia Van Ness's A Great Host , an adaptation of Psalm 68. For the en...
Pray here. Together. The Rev. Thomas Skillings reflects the readings for the first Sunday in Lent, when Jesus is tempted in the desert. Where are you tempted to settle for comfort, safety, control that keeps you from having a radical trust and commitment to God's work in these 40 days? For the entire service and/or sermon, visit us here .
Pray here. Together. Jocelyn A. Sideco reflects on the transfiguration of Jesus, Mardi Gras, and how we can all identify as people of faith able to use our power to benefit others and live into a more just world. For the entire service and/or sermon, visit us here .
Pray here. Together. Rev. Thomas Skillings offers some words of encouragement for us all to continue to soften our hearts and take action to be in better relationship with one another. For the entire service and/or sermon, visit us here .
We sing I Want to Walk as a Child of the Light , Rev. Julie Graham offers words of encouragement, and we reflect on our own ability to practices the ways of the world not the ways of God.
We extend birthday greetings, the Choirs sing a beautiful presentation hymn and Thomas breaks open God's Word: followers of Jesus are called to bring the light into the world.
We all sing "As We Gather At Your Table," and Thomas helps us unpack our identity as Christians as more of a verb than a noun.
This week Bishop Marc Andrus shared words of love and encouraged us to take action. We pray for all those struggling and we raise our voices in prayer, singing "Lift Ev'ry Voice."
