Zions Stone UCC
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Encounter & Action
Pastor Mike preaches on how an encounter with the Divine is an encounter with our Lord Jesus Christ, and how that encounter reveals who we are and how we are to cooperate with his freely given grace. 5th Sunday After Epiphany, Year C: Judges 6:11-24; 1 Corinthians 15:1-11; Luke 5:1-11 www.gofundme.com/f/ZionsStoneChurchRepairFund Intro & Outro music: Parallel by Hotel Pools & oDDling www.youtube.com/watch?v=hFal0LKZw…kVShypKgM&index=5

The Prophetic Pattern of Divine Speech
Pastor Mike preaches on how the prophetic pattern of divine speech helps break us from the vicious circles of sin. As we gather divine speech exposes our hearts and build us up in Christ. 4th Sunday After Epiphany, Year C: Jeremiah 1:4-10; 1 Corinthians 14:12-25; Luke 4:21-32 www.gofundme.com/f/ZionsStoneChurchRepairFund Intro & Outro music: Parallel by Hotel Pools & oDDling www.youtube.com/watch?v=hFal0LKZw…kVShypKgM&index=5

Today is Holy to the Lord
Pastor Mike preaches on the assembling of the people of God to hear the reading of the Word of God, to respond to the Word of God, and to rejoice by feasting and how that models our own worship 3rd Sunday After Epiphany, Year C: Nehemiah 8:1-12 www.gofundme.com/f/ZionsStoneChurchRepairFund Intro & Outro music: Parallel by Hotel Pools & oDDling www.youtube.com/watch?v=hFal0LKZw…kVShypKgM&index=5

Do Whatever He Tells You
Pastor Mike preaches on Jesus turning the water into wine at the wedding feast at Cana and how, following the example of the Blessed Virgin we are to notice what is wrong around us, intercede for others, and do whatever Jesus tells us to do. 2nd Sunday After Epiphany, Year C: Isaiah 62:1-5; 1 Corinthians 12:1-11; John 2:1-11 www.gofundme.com/f/ZionsStoneChurchRepairFund Intro & Outro music: Parallel by Hotel Pools & oDDling www.youtube.com/watch?v=hFal0LKZw…kVShypKgM&index=5

Bring Home What You Have Received
Pastor Mike preaches on some spiritual lessons of the monastic life and how, though most of us are not called to that life, the church functions much in the same way. What we have been given we are to take and share with the world around us. 2nd Sunday of Christmas www.gofundme.com/f/ZionsStoneChurchRepairFund Intro & Outro music: Parallel by Hotel Pools & oDDling www.youtube.com/watch?v=hFal0LKZw…kVShypKgM&index=5

Signs of Joy
Pastor Mike preaches on how joy rooted in Jesus Christ surpasses any attempt to substitute that with anything our materialistic and secular culture has to offer. 4th Sunday of Advent; Isaiah 7:14, Isaiah 35:10; Luke 2:10-14 www.gofundme.com/f/ZionsStoneChurchRepairFund Intro & Outro music: Parallel by Hotel Pools & oDDling www.youtube.com/watch?v=hFal0LKZw…kVShypKgM&index=5

Salvation & Story
Pastor Mike continues his Advent series, Emmanuel: God With Us. In today's sermon he highlights the overarching story of salvation that David and Zechariah were part of, a story that we are called to enter in as we see that in Jesus God has kept his promises to his people. Advent; 1 Chronicles 29:10-18; Luke 1:67-79 www.gofundme.com/f/ZionsStoneChurchRepairFund Intro & Outro music: Parallel by Hotel Pools & oDDling www.youtube.com/watch?v=hFal0LKZw…kVShypKgM&index=5

Comfort
Pastor Mike continues the series God With Us by preaching on the comfort that Jesus Christ brings. www.gofundme.com/f/ZionsStoneChurchRepairFund Intro & Outro music: Parallel by Hotel Pools & oDDling www.youtube.com/watch?v=hFal0LKZw…kVShypKgM&index=5

Justice & Righteousness
Pastor Mike begins a new series for Advent, Emmanuel: God With Us by preaching on justice and righteousness. Jesus brings us both now and in the age to come, and how that differs from cultural definitions of justice; and how our reception of righteousness makes us holy, expressing itself in acts of justice.

The Kingship of Jesus
Pastor Mike preaches on the kingship of Jesus and how it is shown in his coming judgement, the freedom he brings, and the truth he incarnates. Christ the King, Year B: Daniel 7:9-14; Revelation 1:4b-8; John 18:33-37 www.gofundme.com/f/ZionsStoneChurchRepairFund Intro & Outro music: Parallel by Hotel Pools & oDDling www.youtube.com/watch?v=hFal0LKZw…kVShypKgM&index=5

The New & Living Way
Pastor Mike preaches from the Epistle to the Hebrews on Jesus Christ as the new and living way into the presence of God and the finality of his sacrifice, once for all time. 25th Sunday After Pentecost, Year B: Daniel 12:1-3; Hebrews 10:11-25; Mark 13:1-8 www.gofundme.com/f/ZionsStoneChurchRepairFund Intro & Outro music: Parallel by Hotel Pools & oDDling www.youtube.com/watch?v=hFal0LKZw…kVShypKgM&index=5

They Will Shine Forth
Pastor Mike preaches on how the wicked do not know the secret purposes of God, the secret purpose of God is Christ in us, and just like the departed saints we will share in the glory of Jesus as icons of the resurrection. All Saints, Year B: Wisdom 3:1-9; Revelation 21:1-6a; John 11:32-44 www.gofundme.com/f/ZionsStoneChurchRepairFund Intro & Outro music: Parallel by Hotel Pools & oDDling www.youtube.com/watch?v=hFal0LKZw…kVShypKgM&index=5

The Blessed Are Known By, & Know, Jesus
Greg Parker, Jr. preaches on Psalm 1, considering Christ who is the blessed way. Reformation Sunday, Year B: Psalm 1; Acts 15:12-22; Matthew 13:54-58 www.gofundme.com/f/ZionsStoneChurchRepairFund Intro & Outro music: Parallel by Hotel Pools & oDDling www.youtube.com/watch?v=hFal0LKZw…kVShypKgM&index=5

St. James & the Way of the Righteous
Pastor Mike preaches on the life and example of St. James the Brother of the Lord and his turn from unbeliever to believer, from scoffer to disciple. St. James of Jerusalem, Brother of the Lord, Year B: Psalm 1; Acts 15:12-22; Matthew 13:54-58 www.gofundme.com/f/ZionsStoneChurchRepairFund Intro & Outro music: Parallel by Hotel Pools & oDDling www.youtube.com/watch?v=hFal0LKZw…kVShypKgM&index=5

The Life of Faith
On the feast of St. Luke, Pastor Mike preaches on St. Paul's final instructions to Timothy, how that helps us navigate the life of faith, and how St. Luke demonstrated that in his own life. St. Luke the Evangelist, Year B: Psalm 147:1-11; II Timothy 4:1-13; Luke 4:14-2 www.gofundme.com/f/ZionsStoneChurchRepairFund Intro & Outro music: Parallel by Hotel Pools & oDDling www.youtube.com/watch?v=hFal0LKZw…kVShypKgM&index=5

On Suffering, Pt. 2
Pastor Mike continues his short series, On Suffering. Entrenched in his suffering Job, responding to the false accusations of his friend Eliphaz, desires to find God to present his case before Him. And we see in Jesus Christ the once hidden way to God has been opened and we can find grace and help in our time of need. 20th Sunday After Pentecost, Year B: Job 23:1-9, 16-17; Hebrews 4:12-16; Mark 10:17-31 www.gofundme.com/f/ZionsStoneChurchRepairFund Intro & Outro music: Parallel by Hotel Pools & oDDling www.youtube.com/watch?v=hFal0LKZw…kVShypKgM&index=5

On Suffering
Pastor Mike preaches on the reading from Hebrews that says Jesus was made lower than the angels, how his suffering and death led to his glorification, what it means that his suffering perfected him, and how our own suffering is redeemed through our identification with his suffering. 19th Sunday After Pentecost, Year B: Job 1:1, 2:1-10; Hebrews 1:1-4, 2:5-12; Mark 10:2-16 www.gofundme.com/f/ZionsStoneChurchRepairFund Intro & Outro music: Parallel by Hotel Pools & oDDling www.youtube.com/watch?v=hFal0LKZw…kVShypKgM&index=5

Rabble Rouser (or Strong Cravings)
Pastor Mike preaches on how the rabble, mixed among the people of God, caused God's people to focus on the strong craving for what they left behind instead of gratitude on God's gracious provision. 18th Sunday After Pentecost, Year B: Numbers 11:4-6,10-16; James 5:13-20; Mark 9:38-50 www.gofundme.com/f/ZionsStoneChurchRepairFund Intro & Outro music: Parallel by Hotel Pools & oDDling www.youtube.com/watch?v=hFal0LKZw…kVShypKgM&index=5

The Cure for Quarreling Community
Pastor Mike preaches on quarreling in church communities, where those disagreements stem from, and how God directs us to deal with them. 17th Sunday After Pentecost, Year B: Jeremiah 11:18-20; James 3:13-4:3,7-8; Mark 9:30-37 www.gofundme.com/f/ZionsStoneChurchRepairFund Intro & Outro music: Parallel by Hotel Pools & oDDling www.youtube.com/watch?v=hFal0LKZw…kVShypKgM&index=5

Reorientation
Pastor Mike preaches on the pattern of confusion, confrontation, and reorientation that occurs when we have wrong ideas in our minds of who Jesus is, and what he's done, when we encounter who Jesus actually is and what he has actually done (and continues to do). 16th Sunday After Pentecost, Year B: Isaiah 50:4-9; James 3:1-12; Mark 8:27-38 www.gofundme.com/f/ZionsStoneChurchRepairFund Intro & Outro music: Parallel by Hotel Pools & oDDling www.youtube.com/watch?v=hFal0LKZw…kVShypKgM&index=5

Partiality, Judgment, & Mercy
Pastor Mike preaches on how in the church we are all one and thus it is sinful when we show partiality to the rich and powerful over the poor. When we see the poor and the suffering in our midst and we, under the pretense of love, don’t feed or clothe them with what we have, then the faith we profess to have is devoid of meaning, and shows our actual lack of faith because our faithfulness is shown to be empty. . 15th Sunday After Pentecost, Year B: Isaiah 35:4-7a; James 2:1-17; Mark 7:24-37 www.gofundme.com/f/ZionsStoneChurchRepairFund Intro & Outro music: Parallel by Hotel Pools & oDDling www.youtube.com/watch?v=hFal0LKZw…kVShypKgM&index=5

Hard Words (Or Faith Seeking Understanding)
Concluding his series on John 6, Pastor Mike preaches on the unbelief of Jesus' own disciples at his hard words and how their reaction exposes our own unbelief. Faith is not blind belief it is trust, in spite of doubts and difficulties, propelling us to seek understanding that what we hold to be true may be wrong, and needs to be challenged by the words of our Lord. 14th Sunday after Pentecost, Year B: Joshua 24:1-2,14-18; Ephesians 6:10-20; John 6:60-71 www.gofundme.com/f/ZionsStoneChurchRepairFund Intro & Outro music: Parallel by Hotel Pools & oDDling www.youtube.com/watch?v=hFal0LKZw…kVShypKgM&index=5

Eating or Believing?
Continuing the series on John 6, Pastor Mike preaches on eating and believing. Jesus intensifies his earlier statements leaving his hearers baffled. Is eating his flesh merely a metaphor for believing or is there something else to it all? 13th Sunday After Pentecost, Year B: Proverbs 9:1-6; Ephesians 5:15-20; John 6:51-58 www.gofundme.com/f/ZionsStoneChurchRepairFund Intro & Outro music: Parallel by Hotel Pools & oDDling www.youtube.com/watch?v=hFal0LKZw…kVShypKgM&index=5

How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Mother of God
On the Feast of the falling asleep of the Blessed Virgin, Pastor Mike preaches from the Magnificat from the Gospel of Luke, and how it shows us Mary's humble acceptance of God's divine plan, her recognition in the salvation that was to come through her Son, and the divine reversal brought to humanity through the defeat of the evil spiritual forces that held humanity captive. The Virgin Mary, Mother of Our Lord Jesus Christ, Year B: Isaiah 61:10-11, Galatians 4:4-7; Luke 1:46-55 www.gofundme.com/f/ZionsStoneChurchRepairFund Intro & Outro music: Parallel by Hotel Pools & oDDling www.youtube.com/watch?v=hFal0LKZw…kVShypKgM&index=5

Unbelief
Pastor Mike continues in John 6 contrasting seeing Jesus and believing versus seeing him and not believing and how the Exodus story is a model that can help us understand how unbelief leads some to reject the drawing of the Father to the Son. 11th Sunday after Pentecost: I Kings 19:4-8; Ephesians 4:17-5:2; John 6:35-51 www.gofundme.com/f/ZionsStoneChurchRepairFund Intro & Outro music: Parallel by Hotel Pools & oDDling www.youtube.com/watch?v=hFal0LKZw…kVShypKgM&index=5

The Food that Endures
Pastor Mike continues his sermon series on John 6. Jesus is sought by the crowd not because of his teaching or his signs, but because they want something from him. And in response Jesus identifies himself as the true manna from heaven. 10th Sunday after Pentecost: Exodus 16:2-15; Ephesians 4:1-16; John 6:22-35 www.gofundme.com/f/ZionsStoneChurchRepairFund Intro & Outro music: Parallel by Hotel Pools & oDDling www.youtube.com/watch?v=hFal0LKZw…kVShypKgM&index=5

Theophanic Bread
Pastor Mike begins a new series, The Bread of Life, based on the readings from John 6. In the miracle of the multiplication of the loaves followed by Jesus walking on the sea, we see how both are not only a revealing of Jesus as a prophet greater than Moses, but also as a theophany revealing Jesus to be the God who treads upon the waves. 9th Sunday After Pentecost, Year B: 2 Samuel 11:1-15; Ephesians 3:14-21; John 6:1-21 www.gofundme.com/f/ZionsStoneChurchRepairFund Intro & Outro music: Parallel by Hotel Pools & oDDling www.youtube.com/watch?v=hFal0LKZw…kVShypKgM&index=5

Peace
Pastor Mike preaches on how Christ's act of redemption was meant to bring both those who were far off from and those who were near the covenants of promise together as one. 8th Sunday After Pentecost, Year B: II Samuel 7:1-14; Ephesians 2:11-22; Mark 6:30-34, 55-56 www.gofundme.com/f/ZionsStoneChurchRepairFund Intro & Outro music: Parallel by Hotel Pools & oDDling www.youtube.com/watch?v=hFal0LKZw…kVShypKgM&index=5

The Plan
Pastor Mike preaches on God's work of blessing us with all spiritual blessings: our being chosen, predestined, and adopted to be sons of God. And all of this is in service to his overall plan of uniting all into Christ. 7th Sunday After Pentecost, Year B: II Samuel 6:1-5, 12-19; Ephesians 1:3-14; Mark 6:14-29 www.gofundme.com/f/ZionsStoneChurchRepairFund Intro & Outro music: Parallel by Hotel Pools & oDDling www.youtube.com/watch?v=hFal0LKZw…kVShypKgM&index=5

The Pattern
Pastor Mike preaches from the stories of David, Paul, and Jesus highlighting the pattern of being hit with adversity after experiencing moments of God's goodness, and how they responded. 6th Sunday After Pentecost, Year B: II Samuel 5:1-10; 2 Corinthians 12:2-10; Mark 6:1-13 www.gofundme.com/f/ZionsStoneChurchRepairFund Intro & Outro music: Parallel by Hotel Pools & oDDling www.youtube.com/watch?v=hFal0LKZw…kVShypKgM&index=5

St. Paul, Qin Shihuang, & Grace
Pastor Mike preaches on the Chinese emperor Qin Shihuang's obsessive quest to find immortality, contrasting it with St. Paul's self giving love on display for the Corinthian church and how even as our bodies waste away, our inner self is being renewed by the grace of God (his energies at work). Second Sunday After Pentecost, Year B: Genesis 3:8-15; 2 Corinthians 4:13-5:1; Mark 3:20-35 www.gofundme.com/f/ZionsStoneChurchRepairFund Intro & Outro music: Parallel by Hotel Pools & oDDling www.youtube.com/watch?v=hFal0LKZw…kVShypKgM&index=5

Worship of the Trinity
Pastor Mike preaches from Psalm 29 on how the church is the reconstitution of the heavenly beings called to offer worship to God arrayed, or in the beauty of, holiness and how the doctrine of the Trinity leads us to contemplation, adoration, and worship. Trinity Sunday, Year B: Psalm 29; Romans 8:12-17; John 3:1-17 www.gofundme.com/f/ZionsStoneChurchRepairFund Intro & Outro music: Parallel by Hotel Pools & oDDling www.youtube.com/watch?v=hFal0LKZw…kVShypKgM&index=5

Three Activities of the Holy Spirit
Drawing from Jesus' words to the disciples in John 16, Pastor Mike preaches on the three activities of the Holy Spirit: convicting the world of sin, righteousness, and judgment. Pentecost (Whitsunday), Year B: Acts 2:1-21; Romans 8:22-27; John 15:26-27, 16:4b-15 www.gofundme.com/f/ZionsStoneChurchRepairFund Intro & Outro music: Parallel by Hotel Pools & oDDling www.youtube.com/watch?v=hFal0LKZw…kVShypKgM&index=5

Binary
Pastor Mike preaches on the binary statement we see in the reading from 1st John, and how those who believe in the Son have life, and those who do not believe in the Son do not have life as well as how God himself testifies to the Son's identity. Sunday After Ascension, Year B: Acts 1:15-17,21-26; 1 John 5:9-13; John 17:6-19 www.gofundme.com/f/ZionsStoneChurchRepairFund Intro & Outro music: Parallel by Hotel Pools & oDDling www.youtube.com/watch?v=hFal0LKZw…kVShypKgM&index=5

Burdened or Victorious
Pastor Mike preaches on how the commands of our Lord Jesus Christ are not burdensome and how our fulfilling them shows our abiding in God's love. This enactment of our faith aids in our victory over the world which is still captive to sin and death. 6th Sunday of Eastertide, Year B: Acts 10:44-48; 1 John 5:1-6; John 15:9-17 www.gofundme.com/f/ZionsStoneChurchRepairFund Intro & Outro music: Parallel by Hotel Pools & oDDling www.youtube.com/watch?v=hFal0LKZw…kVShypKgM&index=5

Life on the Vine
Pastor Mike preaches on Jesus' imagery of the vine, fruit, and branches and how God is glorified not through the damnation of sinners but through the growing to maturity, bearing fruit, of those who are in Christ. 5th Sunday of Eastertide, Year B: Acts 8:26-40; 1 John 4:7-21; John 15:1-8 www.gofundme.com/f/ZionsStoneChurchRepairFund Intro & Outro music: Parallel by Hotel Pools & oDDling www.youtube.com/watch?v=hFal0LKZw…kVShypKgM&index=5

Knowing Love & Truth
Pastor Mike preaches on the link between love and truth. Too often these are set at opposition against one another but actually work together. 4th sunday of Eastertide, Year B: Acts 4:5-12; 1 John 3:16-24; John 10:11-18 www.gofundme.com/f/ZionsStoneChurchRepairFund Intro & Outro music: Parallel by Hotel Pools & oDDling www.youtube.com/watch?v=hFal0LKZw…kVShypKgM&index=5

The Key to the Scriptures
Pastor Mike preaches on Jesus' post-resurrection appearance to his disciples and giving them the key to understanding the Scriptures: his passion, resurrection, and forgiveness of sin being proclaimed to all nations. In turn this keeps us from ignorance and lawlessness. 3rd Sunday of Easter, Year B: Acts 3:12-19; 1 John 3:1-7; Luke 24:36b-48 www.gofundme.com/f/ZionsStoneChurchRepairFund Intro & Outro music: Parallel by Hotel Pools & oDDling www.youtube.com/watch?v=hFal0LKZw…kVShypKgM&index=5

Confession & Forgiveness
After an opening excursus on sin and death (mortality), Pastor Mike preaches on how Jesus gave the Apostles the gift of being able to forgive sins that was grounded in his work of redemption. When we come together in worship and confess our sins we are truly forgiven and freed from the weight of guilt and shame. 2nd Sunday After Easter, Year B: Acts 4:32-35; 1 John 1:1-2:2; John 20:19-31 www.gofundme.com/f/ZionsStoneChurchRepairFund Intro & Outro music: Parallel by Hotel Pools & oDDling www.youtube.com/watch?v=hFal0LKZw…kVShypKgM&index=5

The Veil of Death & the Lord's Salvation
Drawing from the reading from the prophet Isaiah, Pastor Mike preaches on the resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ as the fulfillment of the prophet's words that the Lord would swallow up the veil of death that covers all people. Christ is risen! Easter, Year B: Isaiah 25:6-9; 1 Corinthians 15:1-11; John 20:1-18 www.gofundme.com/f/ZionsStoneChurchRepairFund Intro & Outro music: Parallel by Hotel Pools & oDDling www.youtube.com/watch?v=hFal0LKZw…kVShypKgM&index=5

Kingship, Humility, & Suffering
On this Palm & Passion Sunday Pastor Mike preaches on the three themes of Kingship, humility, and suffering from the Triumphal Entrance of Jesus and the Passion narratives from the Gospel according to St. Mark. Palm & Passion Sunday, Year B: Mark 11:1-11. Mark 15:1-39 www.gofundme.com/f/ZionsStoneChurchRepairFund Intro & Outro music: Parallel by Hotel Pools & oDDling www.youtube.com/watch?v=hFal0LKZw…kVShypKgM&index=5

Grant Me
Pastor Mike finishes his series on the lenten prayer of St. Ephrem. In the final line of the prayer we acknowledge God's lordship over us and how we then can ask God to grant us sight to see our own sins and to help us not judge one another. 5th Sunday of Lent, Year B www.gofundme.com/f/ZionsStoneChurchRepairFund Intro & Outro music: Parallel by Hotel Pools & oDDling www.youtube.com/watch?v=hFal0LKZw…kVShypKgM&index=5

Give Me
Continuing the series on the Lenten prayer of St. Ephrem, Pastor Mike preaches on the four virtues that we ask God to give us: chastity, patience, humility (meekness of mind), and love - which binds it all together. Fourth Sunday of Lent, Year B www.gofundme.com/f/ZionsStoneChurchRepairFund Intro & Outro music: Parallel by Hotel Pools & oDDling www.youtube.com/watch?v=hFal0LKZw…kVShypKgM&index=5

Take From Me
Drawing from the Lenten prayer of St. Ephrem, Pastor Mike preaches on who St. Ephrem was, why his Lenten prayer is still so powerful, and gives scriptural examples to highlight the four things the prayer asks God to take from us: despair, sloth, lust for power, and idle talk. 3rd Sunday of Lent, Year B www.gofundme.com/f/ZionsStoneChurchRepairFund Intro & Outro music: Parallel by Hotel Pools & oDDling www.youtube.com/watch?v=hFal0LKZw…kVShypKgM&index=5

The Faith that Founded Us is the Faith that Sustains Us
On the 250th Anniversary of Zion's Stone UCC, our own Ray Biery preaches on the faith of those who founded our church and how that faith is one we share. Their own stories and struggles continue to be a guide and inspiration for us today as we follow them in following Jesus. 2nd Sunday of Lent, Year B www.gofundme.com/f/ZionsStoneChurchRepairFund Intro & Outro music: Parallel by Hotel Pools & oDDling www.youtube.com/watch?v=hFal0LKZw…kVShypKgM&index=5 Image by Silas Barr Photography

The Church is the Body of Christ (Not a Social Club)
Pastor Mike concludes his series The Church Is/Is Not by preaching on the Church is the Body of Christ (Not a Social Club). The church is not a social club or gathering. The church, marked by the preaching of the Word, administration of the Sacraments, and living the disciplined Christian life, is the One, Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic body of the living Christ. 1st Sunday of Lent, Year B: 1 Corinthians 12:12-27 www.gofundme.com/f/ZionsStoneChurchRepairFund Intro & Outro music: Parallel by Hotel Pools & oDDling www.youtube.com/watch?v=hFal0LKZw…kVShypKgM&index=5 Image by Silas Barr Photography

Repent & Return to the Lord
Pastor Mike preaches on how Lent is one of the primary ways we are confronted with the holiness of God, human sinfulness, and God's abundant mercy and love, and his call to repent and return to him. Ash Wednesday, Year B: Joel 2:1-2, 12-17 www.gofundme.com/f/ZionsStoneChurchRepairFund Intro & Outro music: Parallel by Hotel Pools & oDDling www.youtube.com/watch?v=hFal0LKZw…kVShypKgM&index=5

The Church is For our Transfiguration (Not Moral Transformation)
Pastor Mike preaches on the mistake of seeing the faith primarily as a pattern of moral transformation that inevitably leads to moralistic therapeutic deism. Our participation in the resurrected life of Christ is part of our own transfiguration as the journey from death to life, begun at our baptism and kept by our faith and faithfulness, is fully realized. The Transfiguration, Year B: I Corinthians 9:16-23, Mark 9:2-9 www.gofundme.com/f/ZionsStoneChurchRepairFund Intro & Outro music: Parallel by Hotel Pools & oDDling www.youtube.com/watch?v=hFal0LKZw…kVShypKgM&index=5 Image by Silas Barr Photography

The Church is Inclusive (Not Exclusive)
Pastor Mike continues his series The Church Is/Is Not and preaches on The Church is Inclusive (Not Exclusive). After starting out with the cultural definition of inclusivity we turn to the Scriptures to see the true definition, and application, by looking at the issue of Gentile inclusion in the early church, and the controversy it kicked up for both Sts. Peter and Paul. 5th Sunday After Epiphany: I Corinthians 9:16-23 www.gofundme.com/f/ZionsStoneChurchRepairFund Intro & Outro music: Parallel by Hotel Pools & oDDling www.youtube.com/watch?v=hFal0LKZw…kVShypKgM&index=5 Image by Silas Barr Photography

The Church is Exclusive (Not Inclusive)
Pastor Mike preaches on the exclusivity of Jesus Christ as the means of human salvation as well as the exclusivity inherent in the reception of the sacraments of Baptism and the Eucharist, and how that compares with popular theologies of inclusion (that aren't based in scripture but in cultural beliefs about inclusion). 4th Sunday After Epiphany, Year B: Deuteronomy 18:15-20; I Corinthians 8:1-13; Mark 1:21-28 www.gofundme.com/f/ZionsStoneChurchRepairFund Intro & Outro music: Parallel by Hotel Pools & oDDling www.youtube.com/watch?v=hFal0LKZw…kVShypKgM&index=5 Image by Silas Barr Photography