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The Inn: Housing The Holy

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As our world and our lives are filled with grief, anxiety and fear, we journey together in this Advent Season making room in our hearts and lives for hope, peace, joy and love. The journey to Bethlehem is our own journey. It is a journey as close as our own hearts. Is there room for love to be born?

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Making Room with Rev. Dr. Steven Koski. Series: The Inn: Housing The Holy A Spacious Christianity, First Presbyterian Church of Bend, Oregon. Scripture: Jeremiah 33.14-16; Psalm 25. 4-5. During this Advent season, we’re going to imagine our lives as that in asking ourselves is there room and on this first Sunday of Advent with hearts, so full of anxiety, despair, fear? How might we create space and make room in our hearts for hope? Join us each Sunday, 10AM at bendfp.org, or 11AM KTVZ-CW Channel 612/12 in Bend. Subscribe/Follow, and…
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A Place at the Table with Rev. Dr. Steven Koski. Series: The Inn: Housing The Holy A Spacious Christianity, First Presbyterian Church of Bend, Oregon. Scripture: Baruch 5.1-5; Philippians 1.9-11. About the Series, The Inn: Housing The Holy: As our world and our lives are filled with grief, anxiety and fear, we journey together in this Advent Season making room in our hearts and lives for hope, peace, joy and love. The journey to Bethlehem is our own journey. It is a journey as close as our own hearts. Is…
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Make Room for Joy, with Rev. Dr. Steven Koski. Series: The Inn: Housing The Holy A Spacious Christianity, First Presbyterian Church of Bend, Oregon. Scripture: Luke 2. 8-10. During this Advent season we are asking ourselves, Is there room? On this third Sunday of Advent we are asking ourselves, Is there room for joy? In such challenging times, it might be difficult to even think about joy. But, when there is little room for joy, this is when we need joy the most. So join us this Sunday as we…
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Love Endures, with Rev. Dr. Steven Koski. A Spacious Christianity, First Presbyterian Church of Bend, Oregon. Scripture: Matthew 1.23, 1 Cor.13.7. On this fourth and last Sunday of Advent we ask ourselves, Is there room for love? God did not come to us in brute strength and invincibility. God came to be with us and the sheer vulnerability of a helpless crying baby. It is vulnerability that connects in the love we show to one another. Is there room to be vulnerable? About the Series, The Inn: Housing The Holy:…
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Christmas Eve Candlelight Service, with Rev. Dr. Steven Koski. Series: The Inn: Housing The Holy A Spacious Christianity, First Presbyterian Church of Bend, Oregon. Scripture: Isaiah 9.2-7;Luke 2. We all need to hear the good news of great joy we celebrate in the birth of a child in the manger. There is a light that shines in the darkness a light the darkness cannot overcome. Join us this Christmas Eve. As we once again receive the gift of this light and find the hope and courage we need to bring…
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Epiphany 2022, with Rev. Kally Elliott. A Spacious Christianity, First Presbyterian Church of Bend, Oregon. The story of the Magi journey to see the baby is in some way, our own story. The light you have been waiting for is here today is what we call Epiphany Sunday. It’s when we read the story of the Magi who saw a light in the dark they saw the child with married his mother, and they knelt down and paid him homage. Join us as we wonder how the story of the…
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Living in Our Time Being, with Rev. Barry Heath. Series: The Inn: Housing The Holy A Spacious Christianity, First Presbyterian Church of Bend, Oregon. Scripture: Habakkuk 1:1-4; 2:1-3, Galatians 2:1-3. The box of Christmas decorations are being put away. This week, Rev. Barry Heath will discuss what it means to live with a mystery that we celebrated when these decorations were up, and to live in the realities of our time, where the Daily News seems to take away all the mystery and the miracle that we remembered at Christmas…
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The Strength to Love, with Rev. Dr. Steven Koski. A Spacious Christianity, First Presbyterian Church of Bend, Oregon. Scripture: Luke 3: 21-23. These are such challenging days, demanding the very best of us. Demanding our deepest love and our bravest action. But, we can grow tired and overwhelmed. This Sunday we’re focusing on the life and the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. who said, “the strength to love comes from knowing at the deepest level that you are loved”. This Sunday we’ll remember the baptism of Jesus and…
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