WORSHIP WITH US on Sunday, November 2, at 10:15 a.m.

WE LIVE STREAM OUR WORSHIP SERVICES AT 10:15 ON SUNDAY MORNING. You can join us online in real time at https://vimeo.com/event/1424751. This streaming address is the same each week.

The video of Sunday’s worship service will be posted after worship at https://vimeo.com/channels/1547852.

You can view and download the bulletin here.

Today is our annual All Saints Sunday Jazz Worship Service. It’s always a joy to welcome back our friends in the Dick Watson Quartet. In providing the music for this Sunday, they help us to think about the Christian life. In a very real sense, the Christian life is a jazz life, a life of improvisation.

We start with the basic theme—God’s love for us and for all creation revealed through the Hebrew Scriptures and shown in the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus—and then we go off on various riffs and improvisations on that theme. By our actions, we expand and expound on God’s love. Using the past while never being bound to it, we explore our understanding of just who this Jesus is. We discover new variations in our own lives—and then we come back to that original theme of God’s love for us and all creation. Each generation, each life adds its own beautiful interpretation.

On All Saints Sunday we open our ears and our eyes and our hearts and recognize that we are faithful people, not in isolation but in community. By the grace and mercy of the living God, that community extends not only in space but also through time. We are united in faith and struggle with those who came before us just as we are united with those who come after us.

Scripture Lesson: Romans 8:18-25; Hebrews 12:1-3

Sermon: “Held in God’s Love”

The Rev. Bill Lovin preaching

Anthem           “This Little Light of Mine”                Dick Watson Quartet

No matter who you are or where you are on life’s journey, you are welcome here.