This week, we begin the new series “Becoming”, which explores some of the ways God is continuing to shape us – both as individuals and as a community – into becoming a unique and beautiful presence in our city. Lead Pastor Scott Hodge kicks off the series by talking about grace and how being a grace-filled community means we are accepting, authentic, and believe in second chances.
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This week, we conclude the Easter season by celebrating Ascension Sunday, and hear the gospel story about Jesus ascending into heaven. Scott relates how this story of beginnings and endings can teach us about the beginnings and endings in our lives.
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This week marks the Sixth Sunday of Easter, as we continue our celebration of new life and God’s gift of unfailing love by exploring the words of Jesus found in John 15:9-17.
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On this Fifth Sunday of Easter our Lead Pastor, Scott Hodge, took us the words of Jesus found in John 15:1-8: “Remain in me, and I will remain in you. For a branch cannot produce fruit if it is severed from the vine, and you cannot be fruitful unless you remain in me.”
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On this Fourth Sunday of Easter, we continue our celebration and exploration of new life and resurrection. We walk through the familiar Psalm 23 together as we explore the idea of God as our Shepherd.
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Imagine trying to convince your closest friends that you’re not dead. This is the bizarre predicament Jesus finds himself in on this Third Sunday of Easter. Lead Pastor Scott Hodge takes us into the gospel reading found in Luke 24:35-48, and we find the balance struck by Jesus between human and divine.
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This week, we continue the season of Easter by looking at the reading from John 20:19-31 about the disciple Thomas and his doubts. and Lead Pastor Scott Hodge poses the introspective questions: “how do we see the wounds of Christ in our own wounds and how do we see the wounds of Christ in the wounds of the world?”
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This weekend the Orchard tribe celebrates Easter and the hope of the resurrection story. Lead Pastor Scott Hodge reminds us that the story of Easter is full of chaos, that God never adheres to our expectations, and that new life begins in the dark.
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This Sunday marks the beginning of Holy Week – the week we join Christians around the world to reflect on Jesus’ journey to the cross. On Palm Sunday, Lead Pastor Scott Hodge takes us into the riveting story of Jesus’ procession into Jerusalem (Mark 11:1-11).
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As we continue into the fifth week of Lent, we continue to shake out of the familiar, look at things in a new light, and wake up to new observations about the life we are called to lead. Through this week’s reading in John 12:20-33, Tammy Helfrich reminds us that there is no life without death, and that the power of Easter is not just that Jesus is alive, but that Jesus was dead. And we are reminded that this walk we are called to take, of taking up our cross and following Jesus into death, will result in our eternal life.
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On this Fourth Sunday of Lent, our Lead Pastor Scott Hodge took us into one of the most well known scriptures of all time – John 3:16. Exploring the context surrounding this passage and the conversation Jesus was in the midst of having with Nicodemus, Scott challenged us to consider what it means to truly “believe” in Jesus.
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This week, Lead Pastor Scott Hodge continues our Lenten journey with a message focused on Jesus’ words from John 2: 13-22, which come to be understood as a call to maintain our physical bodies as temples of God, acting as the body of Christ in our world today.
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Down is up. Losing is saving. Death is life. On this Second Sunday of Lent, Scott Hodge took us into the paradoxical words of Jesus found in Mark 8:31-38: “Take up your cross, and follow me. If you try to hang on to your life, you will lose it. But if you give up your life for my sake…you will save it.”
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On this first Sunday of Lent, our Lead Pastor, Scott Hodge took us into the story of Jesus being baptized and then led by the Spirit into the wilderness where he was tempted for 40 days (Mark 1:9-15). Reminding us that Lent is a season where we are invited to spend time in the wilderness, Scott challenged our community to do so remembering our true identity as God’s beloved, while also trusting that there are “angels” in the desert who offer us help, rest and strength.
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In the final week of Epiphany and Transfiguration Sunday, Tammy Helfrich speaks about both the experience of the disciples as they witnessed Jesus’ transfiguration, and the significance of Transfiguration Sunday as we move into the season of Lent.
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