Category: Sunday Messages
Will We Go After Him
Worship, Mar 29, 9:45am
VIDEO. On Palm Sunday, Pastor Andrew illuminates this famous biblical text of Jesus entry into Jerusalem (John 12:12-19) by calling us to reflect on the remarkable love and relationship God desires of us. Through humor and having the mind of a child, Reverend Black challenges us to see what is hidden in plain sight and core to the Christian faith. This week's sermon will be transformative for adults and children alike.Read more
True Allegiance
Worship, Mar 22, 8:30 & 11am
VIDEO. As we dig into a tense exchange between Jesus and some of Jerusalem’s elite leaders around the question of paying taxes, we’ll ask ourselves what it might mean to “give to Caesar the things that are Caesar’s and to God the things that are God’s,” where our true or ultimate allegiance lies, and how we navigate making hard choices as we seek to live faithfully within the realities of a complex and messy world.Read moreOn Good Shepherds and THE Good Shepherd
Worship, Mar 15, 8:30 & 11am
VIDEO. This Sunday, as we commission FPC Santa Fe’s Pastor Nominating Committee, we’ll consider the characteristics of good shepherds versus bad shepherds as well as our own responsibility as “sheep” to listen for, discern, and follow the voice of THE Good Shepherd. The scriptures for the day are Ezekiel 34:1-10 and John 10:1-18. Join Pastor Ashley at 8:30 in Pope Hall and at 11:00 in the sanctuary or via livestream.Read moreA Transformative Disruption
Worship, Mar 8, 8:30 &11am
VIDEO. Just how inclusive and expansive is God’s mercy and mission? This Sunday, Pastor Ashley will explore with us what a Canaanite woman’s “disruptive” encounter with Jesus and faithful persistence on behalf of her suffering daughter reveals about the expansive and transformative nature of God’s mercy and mission.Read moreUpside-down Blessings for an Upside-down Kin(g)dom
Worship, Mar 1, 10am
VIDEO. This Sunday, as we look at Jesus’ Sermon on the Plain in Luke’s Gospel, Pastor Ashley has us consider anew the radical love Jesus calls us to exercise as well as Jesus’ “upside-down” blessings for the “upside-down” kin(g)dom of God that Jesus continually invites us to live into.Read more
Remaining Rooted in the Wilderness
Worship, Feb 22, 10am
VIDEO. Moving through the season of Lent can be its own wilderness journey, but this Lenten season is not the only “wilderness time” we are facing. As we begin the Lenten season, as well as our time with Pastor Ashley as our Transitional Pastor, she explores with us what Jesus’ responses to his temptations in the wilderness may have to say to us about remaining rooted in the wilderness that is this transitional season of this congregation’s—as well as our wider country’s—life.Read more
A Time to Be Attentive
Worship, Feb 15, 8:30& 11am
VIDEO. We are swamped by radical changes in the world around us and are faced with transitions in the life of our congregation. This Sunday, the Rev. Jim Brown calls to our attention to the Second Letter of Peter which advises that "you will do well to be attentive to the prophetic message of God's own glory and goodness."Read more
Standing in the Spirit: From Vision to Vocation
Worship, Feb 8, 8:30 & 11am
VIDEO. This week, LV West delivers a sequel to his "Watching the Wheel" message from Watch Night. Then in Ezekiel 1 we accompanied the prophet as he watched the Great Cosmic Wheel, and now we stand with the mighty prophet in the Spirit as he receives his prophetic calling in Ezekiel 2.Read more
For Such a Time As This
Worship, Feb 1, 10am
VIDEO. We live in interesting times, times of empire, where power is centralized, fear is weaponized, and entire communities live at the mercy of decisions made far away from them. Times when a cold darkness settles over the land and God can seem hidden. Pastor Andrew asks us, What does it mean to be faithful in such times?Read morePage 1 of 14