Posts tagged with ‘Isaiah’

  • Seeing & Noticing on Christmas Eve (Visio Divina)

    By on December 30, 2025

    12/24/2025 Christmas Eve Lessons & Carols Chris Breslin Images Lesson 3 – Sunlight in the Forest (Charles Burchfield Lesson...

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  • Rubble is a Sacred Place

    By on December 14, 2025

    12/14/2025 – Third Sunday of Advent Isaiah 35:1-10 Chris Breslin Slides for Sunday’s worship gathering Music for Sunday’s worship...

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  • The God of Slow and Small

    By on December 7, 2025

    12/7/2025 – Second Sunday of Advent Isaiah 11:1-10 Chris Breslin Slides for Sunday’s worship gathering Music for Sunday’s worship...

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  • When Swords Become Plowshares

    By on December 1, 2025

    11/30/2025 – First Sunday of Advent Isaiah 2:1-5 Cristal Ocampo Ruiz Music for Sunday’s worship gathering Wake Up Jesus...

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  • The Gift & the Task of Hope (Oak Youth Sunday)

    By on May 19, 2025

    5/18/2025 5th Sunday of Easter Isaiah 40:28-31, Psalm 31:24, Proverbs 4:11-12, Micah 7:7 Brodie Heginbotham, Garrett Clayton, Noa Breslin,...

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  • “I Am Doing a New Thing”

    By on April 6, 2025

    4/6/2025 Fifth Sunday of Lent Isaiah 43:16-21 Parker Hughes   Slides from April 6, 2025 Music for Sunday’s worship...

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  • In This Economy?!

    By on March 23, 2025

    3/24/2025 Third Sunday of Lent Isaiah 55:1-9 Gwen Heginbotham   Slides from March 23, 2025 Music for Sunday’s worship...

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  • The Ghosts of Epiphanies Past

    By on January 6, 2025

    1/05/2025 Epiphany Isaiah 60:1-6/Matthew 2:1-12 Chris Breslin   Slides for January 5, 2025 Music for Sunday’s worship gathering This...

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  • Seeing & Noticing on Christmas Eve (Visio Divina)

    By on January 1, 2025

    12/24/2024 Christmas Eve Lessons & Carols Chris Breslin   Images Lesson 1 – Creation (St. John’s Bible) Lesson 4...

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  • This Revelatory Reversal (St. Anna Sewell)

    By on November 17, 2024

    11/17/2024 Isaiah 11:1-10 Gwen Heginbotham   Slides for November 17, 2024 Music for Sunday’s worship gathering How Can I...

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  • The Holy Here

    By on September 16, 2024

    09/15/2024 Isaiah 6:1-8 / Revelation 4 Chris Breslin   Music for Sunday’s worship gathering Your Love Is Strong by...

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  • Peace Like a River

    By on July 1, 2024

    06/30/2024 John 14:26-27, Isaiah 50:10 Elizabeth Christenson   Music for Sunday’s worship gathering This Joy by Caesar Peace Like...

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  • Isaiah’s Whoa & Woe

    By on May 27, 2024

    05/26/2024 Isaiah 6:1-8 Chris Breslin   Music for Sunday’s worship gathering Isaiah 6 by The Jonah Project Holy, Holy,...

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  • Making Sense of Friday

    By on March 31, 2024

    03/29/2024 Stations of the Cross Reflection Chris Breslin   Music for Sunday’s worship gathering By the Mark by Welch/Rawlings...

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  • Follow the Child (St. Maria Montessori)

    By on November 13, 2023

    11/12/2023 Isaiah 11:1-9 Meg Hoffman   Music for Sunday’s worship gathering Peace Like a River by Traditional Great is...

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  • A Church in This Place

    By on July 31, 2023

    07/30/2023 Isaiah 61 Chris Breslin   Slides from July 30th.   Music for Sunday’s worship gathering Peace Like a...

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  • Here, Now, God with Us

    By on December 25, 2022

    12/24/2022 Christmas Eve Lessons & Carols Chris Breslin Joy to the World Jam

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  • Anticipating the Unexpected

    By on December 18, 2022

    12/18/2022 Isaiah 7:10-16 Natasha Arnold   Slides from December 18, 2022 Music for Sunday’s worship gathering Silent Night by Mohr...

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  • Joy Springs Up

    By on December 12, 2022

    12/11/2022 Isaiah 35 Chris Breslin   Slides from December 11, 2022 Music for Sunday’s worship gathering Psalm 126 by Bifrost...

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  • Life in the Peaceable Kingdom

    By on December 5, 2022

    12/04/2022 Isaiah 11:1-10 Chris Breslin   Slides from December 4, 2022 Music for Sunday’s worship gathering Come All You Weary by...

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  • Life is Advent

    By on November 28, 2022

    11/27/2022 Isaiah 2:1-5 Chris Breslin   Slides from November 27, 2022 Music for Sunday’s worship gathering Lo How A...

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  • Christmas Eve Lessons & Carols with the Gathering Church

    By on December 27, 2021

    12/24/2021 Genesis 1:1-5 | Isaiah 9:2, 6-7 | Luke 1:26-38 Curt Lowndes, Brodie Heginbotham, & Elizabeth Swett   Order...

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  • Agents of Instead-ness

    By on October 24, 2021

    10/24/2021 Isaiah 61 Chris Breslin   Watch the whole worship gathering via YouTube. Watch this week’s Oak Kids’ Godly...

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  • A Deliberate & Liberative Rest (Oak Church 6th Anniversary)

    By on October 26, 2020

    10/25/2020 Isaiah 61 Chris Breslin Oak Folk Testimonies by Brynn Pendrak, Joey Morningstar, & Carolina Kammel Slides from October...

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  • The Healing Wounds of Jesus

    By on June 11, 2020

    06/07/2020 Isaiah 53 Chris Breslin   “God’s ‘yes’ will always have the final say over our ‘no.’ God’s justice...

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  • Love So Amazing (Good Friday audio version)

    By on April 10, 2020

    Video version available via Youtube Slides of Featured Artwork Presentation Song: “Daughters of Zion” By Isaac Wardell, Erin Rose...

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  • The Fast We Didn’t Choose

    By on March 30, 2020

    03/29/2020 Isaiah 58:5-10 Chris Breslin   “The self-denial involved in the period of Lent isn’t about just giving up...

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  • In the Days to Come

    By on December 2, 2019

    12/01/2019 Isaiah 2:1-5 Chris Breslin   “To practice Advent is to lean into an almost cosmic ache: our deep,...

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  • Another Ring (5th Anniversary)

    By on October 28, 2019

    10/27/2019 Isaiah 61 Chris Breslin   “Above all, trust in the slow work of God. We are quite naturally...

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  • Evergreen (Easter Sunday)

    By on April 22, 2019

    04/21/2019 Isaiah 11:1-10 Chris Breslin   “Resurrection means the worst thing is never the last thing.” -Frederick Buechner  ...

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  • The Pains of Being Pure of Heart

    By on February 10, 2019

    02/10/2019 Isaiah 6:1-11 Chris Breslin   “Holy ground is dangerous ground. The holy is never, never something of God...

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  • Epiphany & Jubilee

    By on January 28, 2019

    01/27/2019 Luke 4:14-21 Chris Breslin   “A Sabbath is a weekly Jubilee during which the powerful are humbled and...

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  • New Year, New You…Same God

    By on January 20, 2019

    01/20/2019 Isaiah 30:1-5, 12-22 Charlene Brown   Season Resources: Joy is for Epiphany, tooby Miroslav Volf (Christian Century) Living...

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  • A New Life Burgeons

    By on October 29, 2018

    10/28/2018 Isaiah 60:15-22 & Revelation 21:1-5 Chris Breslin   “What we call the beginning is often the end. And...

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  • Hope-filled & Peace-able, Imagine That

    By on July 1, 2018

    07/01/2018 Isaiah 11:1-10 & Jeremiah 37:1-14 Chris Breslin   “A prophet’s true greatness is his ability to hold God...

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  • Fill Your Horn with Oil and Get Going

    By on June 3, 2018

    1 Samuel 16:1-13 & Isaiah 61:1-3 Chris Breslin “The strength or weakness of means is neither the spur nor...

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  • Conversion at the Cross (Good Friday)

    By on March 30, 2018

    03/30/2018 Isaiah 52:14 & 53:1-6; John 18-19 Chris Breslin “Like the lynching tree in America, the cross in the...

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  • Advent 3: Lying at Rest & Letting the Pieces Fly

    By on December 19, 2017

    12/17/2017 Psalm 126 & Isaiah 61:1-4, 8-11 Chris Breslin “And I knew that the Spirit that had gone forth...

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  • Advent 2: Landscaping for Peace (and Kissing Babies)

    By on December 12, 2017

    12/10/2017 Isaiah 40:1-11; Psalm 85:1-2; 8-13 Sarah Neff “The peace between God and man and the salvation which comes...

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  • Advent 1: Seeing God’s Face

    By on December 9, 2017

    12/03/2017 Psalm 80:1-7, 17-19; Isaiah 64:1-9 Curt Lowndes Rev. Curt Lowndes is the Associate Pastor of the Gathering Church....

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  • Hospitality: A People Blessed by the Lord

    By on January 31, 2017

    01/29/2017 Isaiah 61:5-11 Chris Breslin   “For most of the church’s history, faithful believers located their acts of hospitality...

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  • Healed People, Healed City

    By on January 24, 2017

    01/22/2017 Isaiah 61:1-6 Sarah Neff   “The arc of the moral universe is long but it bends toward justice.”...

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  • Ordinary Hope

    By on January 18, 2017

    01/15/2017 Isaiah 61:1-3 Chris Breslin   “The calling of a prophet is to bring the world into divine focus.”...

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  • Give Us the Bread We Need for Today

    By on October 31, 2016

      10/30/2016 Isaiah 55 Chris Breslin (with artists and creatives from the Communion Arts Project: Alexandra Harper, Jessina Leonard,...

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  • Praying Twice: O Come Emmanuel

    By on November 30, 2015

    11/29/15 Chris Breslin Isaiah 11:29 “He who sings, prays twice.” –Saint Augustine “To listen seriously to music and to...

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  • A Planting Of The Lord: Greatly Rejoice

    By on November 26, 2014

    11/23/14 Chris Breslin Isaiah 61:10-11 “…’joy’ in Philippians is a defiant ‘Nevertheless!’ that Paul sets like a full stop...

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  • A Planting Of The Lord: Love Justice

    By on November 19, 2014

    11/16/14 Matt Hoffman Isaiah 61:8-9 “Injustice in the Bible is a particular type of sin. It’s an abuse of...

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  • A Planting of the Lord: Strangers

    By on November 12, 2014

    11/9/14 Chris Breslin Isaiah 61:5-7 Testimony by Haechul Shin “Hospitality means primarily the creation of free space where the...

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  • A Planting of the Lord: Oaks Of Righteousness

    By on November 5, 2014

    11/2/14 Chris Breslin Isaiah 61:3b-4 Testimony by Abby Wilson “I don’t think it is enough appreciated how much an...

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  • A Planting of the Lord: Spirit of the Lord is Upon Me

    By on October 27, 2014

    10/26/14 Chris Breslin Isaiah 61:1-3a Testimony by Stewart McNaull Related Quotes “The task of prophetic ministry is to nurture,...

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  • The True Story Of The Whole World: New Creation

    By on October 20, 2014

    10/19/14 Chris Breslin Isaiah 60:15-22, Revelation 21:1-5 Related Quotes “The end is where we start from.” –T.S. Eliot “The...

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  • Oak Church Commissioning

    By on September 15, 2014

    Audio from the September 14, 2014 Commissioning Service at the Gathering Church. Text: Isaiah 61. Words from Mark Acuff...

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