Harvard Avenue Christian Church

text :: Matthew 21: 1 – 11 preaching :: Rev David Emery For video of worship, go to www.hacctulsa.org/worship/sermons

+ Welcome & Call to Worship :: Rev. Courtney Richards + Pastoral Prayer :: Rev. Kevin Howe + The Lord’s Prayer + Reflection :: ‘shifting toward delight’ :: Rev. Howe + ‘Precious Lord’ (Dorsey) :: Avenue; Barry Epperly, director + Scripture :: Isaiah 58: 1 – 14 :: Rev. Richards + Reflection :: ‘Prepare : […]

+ Welcome & Call to Worship :: Rev. Kevin Howe + Pastoral Prayer / Lord’s Prayer :: Rev. Darlene Martinez + Scripture :: Isaiah 58: 1 – 12 :: Rev. Courtney Richards + Reflection :: “prepare: rebuilding” :: Rev. Howe + ‘It Is Well with My Soul’ (H.Spafford) :: Kelly Ford, tenor; Mark DeLuca, piano […]

+ Welcome & Call to Worship :: Rev. Courtney Richards + ‘Sanctuary’  ::  Rev. Kevin Howe + “Pandemic” (Lynn Ungar 3-11-20)  ::  Rev. Darlene Martinez + Pastoral Prayer / Lord’s Prayer :: Rev. Howe + ‘Great Is Thy Faithfulness’ :: Kelly Ford and Mark DeLuca + from ‘For Courage’ (John O’Donohue)  ::  Rev. Martinez + Reflection  […]

text :: Isaiah 58: 1 – 9a theme verse :: “Then your light shall break forth like the dawn, and your healing shall spring up quickly…” (Isa 58:8) // What light has God placed in us? What obstacle and interference has kept it covered? What practices can we engage to bring healing and hope? Where […]

text :: Isaiah 58: 1 – 7 theme verse :: “Is not this the fast that I choose … to let the oppressed go free?” (Isa 58:6) // Where do we need faithful freedom? What is keeping us from being fully alive in God’s presence? Where are we the ones blocking others from their full […]

text :: Isaiah 58: 1 – 5 The forty-day journey to Easter invites us to be honest with God, and ourselves, about our sin and our hope, about our shortcomings and our holy longings. Ash Wednesday begins with a cry for mercy and a commitment to follow Jesus on the way. reader :: Rev Kevin […]

text :: 1 John 4: 7 – 12 theme verse :: ‘No one has ever seen God; if we love one another, God lives in us, and his love is perfected in us.’ (1 Jn 4:12) // Sometimes love can be beyond all that we could ever expect of imagine. Agape (or divine love, as […]

text :: Song of Solomon 8: 5 – 7 theme verse :: ‘Many waters cannot quench love, neither can floods drown it.’ (Song 8:7) // Of all the things we talk about in church, love gets the most attention, and probably also the least. We’re not very good at talking about eros love – the […]

text :: Romans 12: 3 – 10 theme verse :: ‘…love one another with mutual affection; outdo one another in showing honor.’ (Rom 12:10) // We seem to understand that there is a sort of deepening of love between friends when we use a phrase like, “I love you like a brother/sister/sibling.” The Greek word […]

text :: John 12: 1 – 8 theme verse :: ‘The house was filled with the fragrance of the perfume.’ (Jn 12:3b) // In the gospels, Mary, Martha, and Lazarus make multiple appearances, in different combinations. Jesus’ own family is named, of course. And he gathers a group of disciples to travel and work with […]

text :: Ephesians 3: 14 – 21 theme verse :: “…know the love of Christ that surpasses knowledge, so that you may be filled with all the fullness of God.” (Eph 3:19) // If we step out on faith, following the star of Christ’s light; if we remember that a God who brought us this […]

text :: Mark 10: 46 – 52 theme verse :: “Then Jesus said to him, ‘What do you want me to do for you?’ The blind man said to him, ‘My teacher, let me see again.'” (Mk 10:51) // Sometimes it’s just hard to see: our eyes are tired; we’re not sitting close enough (or […]

text & theme verse :: Joshua 23:14 // In movies, when someone is being chased, it never fails that they look over the shoulder, lose their footing, and fall. But in real day-to-day life, on the usual journeys – and even the unusual ones – looking over our shoulder … remembering where we’ve been … […]

text :: Matthew 2: 1 – 12 theme verse :: ‘For we have seen his star at its rising, and have come to pay him homage.’ (Mt 2:2b) // The traditional text for the first Sunday of January – Epiphany Sunday, marking the arrival of the magi at the manger – is from Matthew’s gospel. […]

text :: Hebrews 11: 1 – 16 theme verse :: ‘Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen.’ (Heb 11:1) reader :: Bill Queen preaching :: Rev Kevin Howe

text :: Matthew 11: 2 – 10 theme verse :: ‘Are you the one who is to come, or are we to wait for another?’ (Mt11:3) // We jump to story decades later, in Jesus’ adult life and ministry. It seems out of place in the Advent/Nativity theme, but it shows so clearly what Jesus […]