We are a culture that is obsessed with the extraordinary. As Michael Horton writes in his book, Ordinary, “We’ve become accustomed to looking around restlessly for something new, the latest and greatest, that idea or product or person or experience that will solve our problems, give us some purpose, and change the world… Who wants to be that ordinary person who lives in an ordinary town, is a member of an ordinary church, and has ordinary friends and works an ordinary job? Our life has to count!” And yet, the most profound works of God in our lives and the world ordinarily happen through the most ordinary means, and the most extraordinary act of faith we can do is be consistently faithful in the most ordinary ways. The Gospel of John is one of the most extraordinary books in the Bible, opening with one of the most incredible explorations of the incarnation and divinity of Jesus we can find in Scripture. But just about halfway through the first chapter, John pivots and the Gospel becomes somewhat, well, ordinary. This summer, we’ll look at a chapter a week and see how God, through the ordinary means of grace and life, brings about extraordinary acts of redemption and salvation.

The Resurrection of Jesus Christ is an event so monumental it can not be contained in one story.  All four Gospels include stories of the appearances of Jesus Christ in the forty days after His Resurrection and leading up to the Ascension.  These appearances not only prove the Resurrection, they provide what we need to believe in and live out the Resurrection of Jesus Christ today.  Through the season of Easter, we’ll look at the Resurrection Stories in the Gospels of John and Luke.

Our Lent 2026 sermon series is Spiritual Pathways – Disciplines for Growth. Anytime we desire to seek to grow and get stronger, it takes intentional discipline. That includes our spiritual growth. This series is exploring the disciplines of our faith that enable us to grow deeper in our relationship with God.

Whether they do so formally or not, most every church ends their worship service with a blessing for the congregation, you’ll see it in your bulletin as the “benediction,” which means “good word.” In many churches, and most Sundays here, that benediction comes from Number 6:24-26, called the Aaronic Blessing. There, God tells Moses’ brother Aaron, the head of the priests, to bless the people of Israel by saying, “The Lord bless you and keep you; the Lord make his face to shine upon you and be gracious to you; the Lord lift up his countenance upon you and give you peace.” This benediction is more than just a good word or a promise of blessing though. As Mike Glodo writes, “God made us with faces so that his could shine on ours and that the Aaronic Blessing could be to us not only a ‘little Bible,’ but a ‘little gospel.’ Over the course of these six weeks, we’ll seek to gain a deeper understanding of the blessing in Numbers and how the Gospel is both summarized and lived out through it.