God is Here

Carolyn Marshall Wright “John One Five” 2024 watercolor on paper 15 x 22 inches

Marjory Bankson

July 6, 2025

Fourth Sunday After Pentecost

Text: Luke 10:1-11, 16-20

Our gospel text for today begins with Jesus sending out 72 of his followers in pairs to “test the waters” for a later visit by Jesus himself. David has already given us a wonderfully embodied experience of what that might have felt like, so I will focus on the backstory.

In preparing these disciples for their trial run, Jesus gives a series of directions that reveal the values they have experienced together:

  • Carry no purse, no bag, and no extra sandals – all things we would normally pack for a trip.

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Story Telling Time:  “The Secret Agent” by Edward Hayes

Carolyn Marshall Wright “John One Five” 2024 watercolor on paper 15 x 22 inches

Cynthia Dahlin

June 29, 2025

Third Sunday After Pentecost

Two weeks ago, John Morris told us “…we have a sort of tension here – we have the Word of God as a truth that was there at the beginning, a deep structure of everything that is and could be – but we also have the Word of God as evolving, requiring understanding and interpretation, not the kind of Word we can point to in a piece of scripture and say, “It’s written there, so it must be true.”…

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READ & DISCUSS Call to Commitment by Elizabeth O’Connor

How Did Seekers and other CoS churches Begin?

What were the founding values?
Join this 3-week zoom class

July 8, 15 and 22 (7-8:30pm)

to READ & DISCUSS Call to Commitment by Elizabeth O’Connor

Leaders:  Marta Brenden (newcomer with questions) & Fern Edwards (who experienced those days)
This book put Church of the Savior on the map in 1963.  As an ecumenical church, open to all in a segregated city, the book describes a level of commitment that felt to some like a monastic order.  Others saw it as radical and exclusive — but Call to Commitment brought inquiries from many people and several seminaries.…

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READ & DISCUSS Call to Commitment by Elizabeth O’Connor

How Did Seekers and other CoS churches Begin?

What were the founding values?
Join this 3-week zoom class

July 8, 15 and 22 (7-8:30pm)

to READ & DISCUSS Call to Commitment by Elizabeth O’Connor

Leaders:  Marta Brenden (newcomer with questions) & Fern Edwards (who experienced those days)
This book put Church of the Savior on the map in 1963.  As an ecumenical church, open to all in a segregated city, the book describes a level of commitment that felt to some like a monastic order.  Others saw it as radical and exclusive — but Call to Commitment brought inquiries from many people and several seminaries.…

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Sermon by Erin Bush

Carolyn Marshall Wright “John One Five” 2024 watercolor on paper 15 x 22 inches

Erin Bush

June 22, 2025

Second Sunday After Pentecost

Erin exegeted the Biblical texts for the day, particularly 1 Kings 19:1-15a. The text of her sermon is not yet available.…

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