St. Paul's Church - Willington, Ct

What Jesus's adoptive father reveals about what true righteousness looks like.

This Sunday we considered the significance of Matthew's genealogy of Jesus: Why are 4 mothers included in a genealogy that otherwise only mentions fathers? What do the included women have in common, and what does their inclusion reveal about God?

This year we continued our tradition of hearing testimonies from people in our congregation about how God has worked in their lives. This year we heard stories from Betty, Andrea, Josh, and Keith.

The conclusion to our Jonah series: What the vine exposes about Jonah's heart, and what the Book of Jonah reveals about God's heart.

This week in Part Two of our Jonah series, we considered the significance of the whale: how did Jesus understand the whale, and what does Jesus's understanding tell us about his approach to interpreting the Old Testament?

This week we considered how the first chapter of Jonah reflects our tendency to flee from God's call, and yet God continues to pursue us.

Guest Speaker Kyler Barr speaks on the burdens we carry.

This week's reflection is based on "I Know You Know Me" by Caroline Spence (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mjYt9w8zgZc)

This week's reflection is based on "The Lust, the Flesh, the Eyes and the Pride of Life" by the 77s (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QfO3BSf-fY0)

This week's reflection is based on "The Brotherhood of Man" by The Innocence Mission (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iOTNu_MMLEE)

This week's reflection is based on "'Free" by Florence and the Machine (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I1CT7jS_Vjg)

For the next five weeks, each sermon is going to be inspired by a song. This week's song is "Found You" by Silicone Boone. Found You, by Silicone Boone (Official Lyric Video): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CCSMPPgrHy8

This morning we took a close look at "The Lord's Prayer," Jesus's example of how we should pray.

This week we looked at the final words in 1st John. We considered... are we supposed to have assurance of eternal life? How do we understand prayer? What are we supposed to do when we see a brother or sister sin? What is the "sin that leads to death"? And why does John finish with a warning against idols?

Every week we confess through the Apostle's Creed "Christ will come again to judge the living in the dead." In this week's passage, John offers help to those of us who may have anxiety about that day.

1 John tells us two essentials we need in order to be the kind of church Christ came to build: orthodoxy and orthopraxy.

This week in 1st John: what love is (and isn't).

John said earlier in the letter that "if we say we are with sin, the truth is not in us." But in our passage this week, he says "whoever is born of God does not sin." We considered: how do we reconcile these statements?

We continued our study in 1st John with reflection on two commands: (1) Do not love the world or anything in the world, and (2) See that what you have heard from the beginning remains in you. We considered how these commands are sometimes misunderstood, and how to take them to heart.