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The noise and chaos of Palm Sunday soon takes a precipitous decline a week later when Jesus finds himself before Pontius Pilate and his accusers. Pastor Jen contrasts the noise and silence of Palm Sunday and Passion Sunday and asks why Jesus stood silent
How can we have faith when God is silent? Pastor Jacob explores those moments in life when we have so many questions, but God seems nowhere to be found.
This story from Mark 3 has a lot of interesting elements, but in this sermon, Pastor Jen zeroes in on the silence of the Pharisees after Jesus questions them. What happens in that moment when our silence starts to solidify as stubbornness?
We all know that death can come at any time. What's hard is that we don't know when that time will be and Scripture doesn't give us any answers. What do we do in the face of the silence surrounding our own deaths?
In this famous passage, Elijah is running for his life and hiding in a cave when he hears a "still, small voice." But what did God actually say in the silence of that moment? Have you ever thought about the conversation between Elijah and God? Join Pastor
There are over 600,000 word forms in the English language. We are inundated everyday with a constant stream of words. But with so many words, sometimes they lose they power--particularly, the words we use to talk about God. When we have said so many wrong
We begin our journey to Easter Sunday with this year's Ash Wednesday service, a night to remember and reflect on our own mortality. Join us this Lent as we enter into the silence of Scripture. Tonight, hear the words of the Psalmist: Selah. Pause...breath
Moral of the story: never underestimate a woman. Deborah and Jael seem like such different characters, but in the same story (gruesome though it is) God calls them both. In the last sermon of our Women of the Bible series, join Pastor Jen as she explores
Listen as President of the Pacific School of Religion, Rev. Dr. David Vasquez-Levy, guest preaches at Claremont United Church of Christ and explores how Jochebed and other women of the revolution changed the story of the Bible!
Like so many other women in the Bible, the Canaanite woman and her daughter in Matthew 15 remain nameless. Her story is one of the most confusing in all of Scripture, but perhaps this unnamed woman teams up with Jesus to teach us the greatest lesson of al
This week we look at a troubling story of a woman whose life was marked by oppression and abuse: Hagar. Instead of hearing her story as people from a completely different context and culture, Pastor Jen invites us to consider how Hagar’s life and hardsh
Romans 16 is a boring chapter to read. It's just a list of names of people to whom Paul sends his greetings. But the list includes 10 women, several who were leaders in the early church. Join Pastor Jacob as he highlights one, Junia, who was an apostle, o