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[Sermon] Not Meant to Be Comfortable
Healing requires discomfort, and the church is called to touch the wounds of the world rather than avoid them

Hector Garfias-Toledo
6 days ago
![[Sermon] Guarding the Common Good](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/a6374f_c08a92871b4e484691654b48da1f3fcf~mv2.jpg/v1/fill/w_443,h_250,fp_0.50_0.50,q_30,blur_30,enc_avif,quality_auto/a6374f_c08a92871b4e484691654b48da1f3fcf~mv2.webp)
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[Sermon] Guarding the Common Good
Isaiah 56 begins with a command: guard, not create.

Hector Garfias-Toledo
Aug 16
![[Sermon] In the Muddle](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/EAjpBO7ej8A/maxresdefault.jpg)
![[Sermon] In the Muddle](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/EAjpBO7ej8A/maxresdefault.jpg)
[Sermon] In the Muddle
Guest preacher Jeff Tobin walks through Psalm 85's three movements: grateful memory of God's past deliverance, anxious lament in a disoriented present, and hopeful vision of a healed future.

Jeff Tobin
Aug 9
![[Sermon] Room in the Net](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/9PqZ7x938DA/maxresdefault.jpg)
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[Sermon] Room in the Net
Pastor Hector and Bruce Sutherland explore Matthew's parables of the mustard seed, the yeast, and the net cast into the sea.

Hector Garfias-Toledo
Jul 26
![[Sermon] What Do You Make of This?](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/n6Z27YVnEN0/maxresdefault.jpg)
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[Sermon] What Do You Make of This?
Jesus doesn't hand his disciples an answer to the parable of the sower, he asks them a question.

Hector Garfias-Toledo
Jul 12
![[Sermon] The Unforced Rhythms of Grace](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/4ghEaM3-etQ/maxresdefault.jpg)
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[Sermon] The Unforced Rhythms of Grace
We stop trying to force our way into God's heart, and realize we're already standing in it. Grace isn't earned. It's meant to flow through our lives, in word and action, unforced and free.
![[Sermon] Whose Voice Do We Trust?](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/DAyUhuJfDmk/maxresdefault.jpg)
![[Sermon] Whose Voice Do We Trust?](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/DAyUhuJfDmk/maxresdefault.jpg)
[Sermon] Whose Voice Do We Trust?
At a kairos moment — a hinge in history — the ancient question of discernment becomes urgently present.

Mary Denny
Jun 28
![[Sermon] Speak in the Daylight](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/BeadS0-MXv0/maxresdefault.jpg)
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[Sermon] Speak in the Daylight
The prophet Jeremiah didn't hold back with God. He accused, complained, and declared himself cheated, and God was big enough to hold all of it.

Hector Garfias-Toledo
Jun 21
![[Sermon] The Harvest Is You](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/Q4TdNylEymY/maxresdefault.jpg)
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[Sermon] The Harvest Is You
Jesus tells the disciples to pray for laborers, then immediately tells them they are the laborers.

Hector Garfias-Toledo
Jun 14
![[Sermon] The Scandal of Proximity](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/oAVf1Fbi9Tw/maxresdefault.jpg)
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[Sermon] The Scandal of Proximity
David Horton explores what it means that God's holiness isn't a fragile thing to be protected from the compromised and the broken, but a contagious fire that moves toward them.

David Horton
Jun 7
![[Sermon] The Right Kind of People](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/MwlFZ10-ICM/maxresdefault.jpg)
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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
May 31
![[Sermon] The Day Jesus Shakes Your Life](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/I9HuRvHGoTo/maxresdefault.jpg)
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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
![[Sermon] When God Scatters and Gathers](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/Eo5whRyPjiE/maxresdefault.jpg)
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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
![[Sermon] Keep the Party Going](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/UMzmyHzvBt0/maxresdefault.jpg)
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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
![[Sermon] Changing the Narrative](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/tHTZhLZgt4w/maxresdefault.jpg)
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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
![[Sermon] Yahweh Shepherds Me](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/zKPwSb_NOj0/maxresdefault.jpg)
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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
![[Sermon] Eyes That Could Not See](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/02Fc689QZCo/maxresdefault.jpg)
![[Sermon] Eyes That Could Not See](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/02Fc689QZCo/maxresdefault.jpg)
[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
![[Sermon] Dangerous People](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/e9-S-ez-pTE/maxresdefault.jpg)
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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
![[Sermon] Not the Same Jar](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/OnY_CuR5dc4/maxresdefault.jpg)
![[Sermon] Not the Same Jar](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/OnY_CuR5dc4/maxresdefault.jpg)
[Sermon] Not the Same Jar
The resurrection body is not unmarked; it is mended.
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