If we’re honest, we fear many things and sometimes many people.  But seriously – if God is for us, who’s against us? 7th Sunday after Pentecost – July 27, 2014 Romans 8:26-39 – Pastor Evan Davis

As the Church, we’ve spent a lot of time worrying about who’s in the will and who’s out.  Who gets the inheritance of Christ and who doesn’t?  The good news for us is that we’ve been written into God’s will in the blood of Jesus Christ, crucified and risen.  That […]

The good news CHANGES us.  It does not leave us the same.  The apostle Paul is serving up some serious good news in Romans 8:1, which we heard today as we travel through the letter this summer.  At Power in the Spirit, our Virginia Synod ministry conference last week, I […]

There are many things we want, and need, to stop doing.  Or to start.  But no matter how much we want to do the things we know we should, we can’t.  Why can’t we just be good? Paul’s answer, and Martin Luther’s, is because we are addicted to sin – […]

On Sunday, June 29, 2014, after about four months of listening to God in scripture, listening to each other in conversation, and prayer, we formally adopted this purpose statement and these guiding principles as a congregation.  They will be the rock that grounds us in God’s mission as we go […]

As we here in the U.S. celebrate Independence Day this week, I hope we consider what it means to be free.  But as Christians, part of the worldwide Body of Christ, let’s consider what the apostle Paul thought about freedom (and by extension, Martin Luther, who was one of Paul’s […]

We spend an awful lot of our lives worrying about ourselves.  Rather than “how do I lead a good life?”, what if our questions instead were about God and our neighbors? “Dead or Alive?” – Romans 6:1b-11 – June 22, 2014 Pastor Evan Davis

What are human beings that you should care for them, God?  The question of Psalm 8 is one we’ve all asked at one point or another.  What is life all about?  What is the meaning or purpose of our normal, everyday lives?  In the 8th psalm and in the creation […]

Our American, historically Christian and English-speaking society has never been more diverse than it is today.  That may be disorienting to many.  But to those who are more recent immigrants to this country (we’re all immigrants), and those who have grown up outside of the church, we are the ones […]

What the world worships as unknown, this God we know intimately.  This God makes a claim on us.  This God we proclaim to the world.   The 6th Sunday of Easter – May 25, 2014 – John 14:15-21, Acts 17:22-31, Psalm 66:8-20