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Rev. Juan Carlos Huertas

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Jun 2, 2024 5:30 AM America/Chicago

Weakness and Accountability - June 02, 2024 - Rev. Juan Carlos - Sermon

It is difficult to acknowledge our shortcomings, mistakes, and weaknesses. It is also difficult to be accountable to a different way of life, to our desire to be agents of peace, reconciliation, and wholeness. This week Pastor Juan Carlos Huertas invites

May 19, 2024 4:00 AM America/Chicago

The Spirit is Life - May 19, 2024 - Rev. Juan Carlos - Sermon

Is this all there is? Is this what life is about? Feeling like you are in a hamster wheel? So often we get into patterns of life that seem dull, dry, empty, we can feel them but find it hard to snap out of them. This week Pastor Juan Carlos Huertas remind

May 12, 2024 4:00 AM America/Chicago

Serving in the Kingdom - May 12, 2024 - Rec. Juan Carlos - Sermon

Each of us is a unique person, with unique gifts, abilities, and perspectives. Rehearsing the kin-dom of God, a kin-dom of love, acceptance, compassion, justice, and completion, requires all of our gifts to make it known. What would it look like to be of

Apr 28, 2024 4:00 AM America/Chicago

The End is the Beginning - April 28, 2024 - Rev. Juan Carlos - Sermon

Jesus' death and resurrection ended a season of life for his disciples and yet it began another, the season called the Church. This week, Pastor Juan Carlos Huertas invites us to consider some wisdom from 2,000 years ago that could help us as we think abo

Apr 21, 2024 5:30 AM America/Chicago

Christians - April 21, 2024 - Rev. Juan Carlos - Sermon

This week Pastor Juan Carlos Huertas takes us to a city called Antioch where the followers of Jesus were first called Christian. What does it mean to be Christian and what does Christianity have to do with the church?

Apr 7, 2024 4:00 AM America/Chicago

Upon This Rock - April 7, 2024 - Rev. Juan Carlos - Sermon

Sermon Series with Pastor Juan Carlos - April 7-28 In the first sermon on our Church series Pastor Juan Carlos Huertas reminds us that the Church was instituted by Jesus. This way of beginning gives us a glimpse of what the intention of said institution i

Feb 25, 2024 3:00 AM America/Chicago

What the Bible is Not - Feb. 25, 2024 - Rev. Juan Carlos - Sermon

In parts of Christianity the bible is seen as THE authority for our lives and for knowing what it means to be a Christian. In such a tradition the words that the bible contain can easily be used as weapons to shame, humiliate, divide, and damn people who

Feb 18, 2024 3:00 AM America/Chicago

Whose Authority? - Feb. 18, 2024 - Rev. Juan Carlos - Sermon

There are Christianities that offer an authoritarian framework with answers to all of life difficult questions, divinely inspired social mores, and single interpretations of scriptures by those in power. Those of us who are attempting to find a more open

Feb 11, 2024 3:00 AM America/Chicago

On Judging Others - Feb. 11, 2024 - Rev. Juan Carlos - Sermon

Judging is easy to do, all of us have our opinions, ways of looking at the world, and belief systems. And yet these days it seems like we are often on the defensive, afraid of speaking our minds, where others easily share their minds. What happens when we

Feb 4, 2024 3:30 AM America/Chicago

The Waiting Room - Feb. 4, 2024 - Rev. Juan Carlos - Sermon

Waiting rooms are often not places that we enjoy. Our lives too busy to wait, waiting is often around anxiety producing moments, hospitals, car repair shops, doctor’s offices, and unemployment lines. This week a community waits with expectation, could w

Jan 28, 2024 3:30 AM America/Chicago

Living A Life - Jan. 28, 2024 - Rev. Juan Carlos - Sermon

What kind of life are you living? What kind of life do you want to live? These days it is easy to wonder if we are living the life we want to live, it is easy to wonder if there is a better life – but what does that life look like? This week Pastor Juan

Dec 31, 2023 3:00 AM America/Chicago

Seasons - Dec. 31, 2023 - Rev. Juan Carlos - Sermon

This week, Pastor Juan Carlos Huertas reflects on a recent article that encouraged all of us to think about our lives in seasons. This way opens us to self-compassion, striving, and relationships over the span of our lives, in the midst of the ups and dow

Dec 10, 2023 3:00 AM America/Chicago

Advent Hope - December 10, 2023 - Rev. Juan Carlos - Sermon

As we continue to count down for the celebration of Christmas Pastor Juan Carlos Huertas invites us to consider hope. What are we hopeful for? What are barriers to our hope? How is a gospel hope different from the hope of greeting cards and consumerist cu

Nov 19, 2023 3:00 AM America/Chicago

The Grateful 10% - November 19, 2023 - Pastor Juan Carlos - Sermon

Gratitude is an important virtue in our day to day life. It paves the way for perspective, presence, and generosity so it is surprising how little it seems to be practiced in our day to day life. This week Pastor Juan Carlos Huertas speaks to us about gra

Nov 5, 2023 3:00 AM America/Chicago

Ancestral Presence - Nov. 6, 2023 - Rev. Juan Carlos - Sermon

Many old churches have cemeteries surrounding them and with the rise of crematoriums, churches are reclaiming the church as a place where our loved ones find final rest. What does it mean to be surrounded by the saints? What is saintliness? How might we r

Oct 29, 2023 4:00 AM America/Chicago

A New Heaven and A New Earth - Oct. 29, 2023 - Rev. Juan Carlos - Sermon

In the last few weeks we have been overwhelmed by the pictures from the Middle East. We did not need another “hotspot” in the world, another place of suffering, violence, and despair. Add war to the many other ills around us and we can easily be disco