WORSHIP WITH US on Sunday, August 16, 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.

Like many people, I’ve been hearing and reading and thinking about artificial intelligence. It’s hard not to. Much of what I’ve learned is disconcerting. Then came the op-ed piece whose title warned: “If You Weren’t Worried About A.I., You Should Be After the Past Few Weeks.”

So, in the coming weeks, I want to explore the real and the artificial—and I’ll come back to that warning about AI on an upcoming Sunday. But it seems to me that if we are going to understand the artificial, we first need to consider the real.

And that’s not always easy.

SCRIPTURE LESSONS: Romans 12:9-13; John 15:12-16a

SERMON: “The Real and the Artificial, Part I: Let Love Be Genuine”

The Rev. Bill Lovin preaching

ANTHEM       “Serenity”      Ola Gejeilo

We are happy to welcome our guest instrumentalists this morning: Mark Anderson and Addie Schindler, trumpet, Jessica Wiskus, horn, Nathan Currie and Andy Owens, trombone, Nick Todd, tuba, Cecily Colins, violin.

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