For the foreseeable future, our worship will be based online. We are using Zoom as our worship platform. You can download Zoom from https://zoom.us/download or from your mobile platform app store. For the connection information please contact the church office. If you’d like to follow along in worship later, then we have two options: You can find our online worship recordings on…
* 1200 South Carbon Street *Marion, Illinois * Sunday School at 9:00AM * Worship at 10:30AM
1200 South Carbon Street · Marion, Illinois
Faith Development – 9:00 AM * Worship Service – 10:30 AM
Faith Development – 9:00 AM * Worship Service – 10:30 AM
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Friends, Session has been hard at work and prayer trying to discern a path forward in the middle of rapidly changing circumstances. Here is where we are at, out of an abundance of caution, and concern for our physical health. Sunday, March 15th – We will gather for Sunday School and Worship. We will not have our usual fellowship meal. We will record this service for…
September 20, 2020 – The 16th Sunday after Pentecost – In the Middle
Genesis 15:1-6 We find Abram in the middle of things. Abram has already believed God. By the time we get here, he has heard God’s promises, We should be familiar with the middle of the things. Abram has moved from Ur to Canaan, from Canaan to Egypt, and has come back out of Egypt. He…
September 13, 2020 – The 15th Sunday after Pentecost – A Familiar Story
Genesis 2:4b-7, 15-17; 3:1-8 This is the second creation story related in Genesis. We don’t read the whole thing here, but we do get most of the action. We need to unpack the baggage we have in this passage, and do some work with what’s actually in the text, not what was in our children’s story Bibles once upon a time, or…
Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called children of God. -Matthew 5:9 The season of peace is 4 weeks prior to World Communion Sunday (the 1st Sunday of October) and the giving and receiving of the Peace and Global Witness Offering. It is a time for individuals, families, congregations, and communities to grow…
September 6, 2020 – The 14th Sunday after Pentecost – The Devil is in the Details, God is in the Whole
Week 6 – The People of God in a Strange LandRevelation 21:1-8 New heaven and new earthRevelation 21:9-22:7 The new Jerusalem The end times are fascinating. All too often we get caught up in the counting and the descriptions. The animals, the scrolls, the lampstands, the bowls, the gates, the measurements of the city, the types of foundation, the layout, and the…
August 30, 2020 – The 13th Sunday after Pentecost – Outside the City Limits
Week 5 – The People of God in a Strange LandActs 8:9-24 Conversion of Simon MagusActs 8:26-40 Conversion of the Ethiopian Eunuch As we’ve noted many times before, the people of God spend a lot of time waiting for the arrival of the Messiah. They don’t always wait patiently, and they often wait with desperation. In the waiting, they reach out for…
August 23, 2020 – The 12th Sunday after Pentecost – NMIMBY (No Messiah in My Back Yard)
Week 1 – The People of God in a Strange LandMatthew 2:13-23 Flight to EgyptMark 6:1-16 Jesus not respected in Nazareth By the time we arrive in Matthew and Mark, the people of God havebeen awaiting the Messiah for a long time. Of course, they aren’t the onlypeople on the face of the earth. So when a Messiah shows up, and isspoken…
August 16, 2020 – The 11th Sunday After Pentecost – A Word from Taiwan
We hear how the 121st Psalm has gotten one of our mission co-workers, Jonathan Seitz, and his family through COVID as they live, move, and have their being in Taiwan.
As our world has turned and churned and changed over the past months, one of the things that has been brought to the light is that we, as humans, are very good at being bad to one another. Calvin’s total depravity has been on witness throughout these months, over masks, and restaurants, over toilet paper,…
August 9, 2020 – The 10th Sunday after Pentecost – Sing an old/new/favorite song
A music Sunday
August 2, 2020 – The 9th Sunday after Pentecost – Psalter Sunday
A Sunday with the Psalter.