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[Sermon] The Right Kind of People
On the first Sunday of the long green season, we are called back to the basics: sitting together, eating together, and holding each other as the daily practice of a people shaped by Trinity's love.

Dr. Kempton Hewitt
4 days ago
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[Sermon] The Day Jesus Shakes Your Life
It starts with a question for the children: when you hear the word "church," what do you think of? And it ends with a baptism.

Hector Garfias-Toledo
May 24
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[Sermon] When God Scatters and Gathers
Conversation sermon with Lorelle Skellie. The God who scatters the wicked is the same God who gathers the orphan and the widow, and that is not a contradiction but a revelation.

Hector Garfias-Toledo
May 17
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[Sermon] Keep the Party Going
Pastor Hector argues that obedience to Jesus isn't a condition for love but its natural overflow

Hector Garfias-Toledo
May 10
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[Sermon] Changing the Narrative
Pastor Hector invites us to see John 14 through a surprising lens: the power of narrative to hold systems in place — or set people free.


Conversations on the Road 2026
This summer, for several Sundays, the sermon time will again take the form of a dialogue between Pastor Hector and a member of the congregation.

Hector Garfias-Toledo
Apr 28
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[Sermon] Yahweh Shepherds Me
To be shepherded is to submit — not to worldly power, which promises control but delivers captivity, but to the living God who seeks us in spite of ourselves.

Hector Garfias-Toledo
Apr 26
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[Sermon] Eyes That Could Not See
What keeps us from recognizing Jesus in our midst? Fear, grief, busyness, comfort — and yes, the relentless propaganda of a culture that has weaponized Jesus's name to divide and diminish.

Hector Garfias-Toledo
Apr 19
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[Sermon] Dangerous People
The world is full of forces working to push us into locked rooms — into isolation, fear, and despair.

Hector Garfias-Toledo
Apr 12
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[Sermon] Not the Same Jar
The resurrection body is not unmarked; it is mended.
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[Sermon] God of the Gaps
As Jesus enters Jerusalem — not on a warhorse, but on a donkey — we see a God who does not hover above our fractures but descends into them.

Hector Garfias-Toledo
Mar 29
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[Sermon] Yes, Lord
When Jesus asks Martha if she believes, she doesn't offer a theological argument. She says simply: Yes, Lord.

Dr. Kempton Hewitt
Mar 22
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[Sermon] Seeing with the Heart
We live in a world that discards what is chipped, cancels what is complicated, and overlooks what is small.

Hector Garfias-Toledo
Mar 15
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[Sermon] Washing Away the Labels
Labels shape how we see others—and how we come to see ourselves. Like dust that slowly gathers on a window, these labels accumulate until they obscure our true identity.
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[Sermon] In the Space Between
Faith rarely grows in comfort; it grows in the space between certainty and promise.
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[Sermon] The Illusion of Self-Sufficiency
Lent begins with an honest inventory of our shards. In the wilderness, we confront the deep human impulse to live out of sync with God.

Hector Garfias-Toledo
Feb 22
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[Sermon] Dust, Honesty, and the Courage to Look at Death
Ash Wednesday confronts us with a hard truth: we cannot talk about life without talking about death.

Hector Garfias-Toledo
Feb 18
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[Sermon] Recentered in the Light
The Transfiguration is not simply a miraculous spectacle—it is a spiritual compass.

Hector Garfias-Toledo
Feb 15
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[Sermon] Be the Salt, Let the Light Shine
Pastor Hector invites us to reconsider why we are here—not just in worship, but in the world.
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[Sermon] The Beatitude Jesus and the Hopeless Unblessables
Guest preacher Jeff Tobin invites us to hear the Beatitudes not as abstract ideals, but as good news spoken to weary, struggling people.

Jeff Tobin
Feb 1
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