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SUMMARY:Worship Service
DESCRIPTION:Join us at 9:30 am on Sundays — We Make a Place for Everyone!\n\nSilencing the Wind\nIn a world filled with noise and empty words\, God comes to us as stillness and silence\, even to the point that wind ceases (Matt. 14:32). Jesus walks over stormy waters to his disciples\, entering their boat and being present with them despite their fears and doubts. Today’s readings encourage us to keep our words spare and meaningful\, to lay aside our little faith with its wordy worries\, and to listen for God\, who comes to us as quieting comfort. \nThe wind blows us powerfully\, frighteningly\, making even familiar places seem strange\, stirring up the water to obscure our vision and make our journey fearful and slow. Today Jesus comes to us in our drowning panic\, quickly responding to our “Lord\, save me!” (v. 30). The “little faith” (v. 31) of Peter (and our little faith) is not only a chiding to “do better” in our faith lives and respond to Jesus’ call with discipline. It holds room for forgiveness. Even when we risk and screw up anyway\, God’s hand is there to reach out and catch us. \nTo command even the wind to be still is a powerful thing. If a very strong wind suddenly stopped near one of us\, we would probably panic\, wondering who did it\, whether it was the calm eye of a storm\, or whether a still bigger tornado is coming. But Jesus walked out upon the water and helped Peter in his fear to return to the boat’s safety and security. Jesus gives powerful reassurance and the gift of presence. God is not distant from our fears\, but close to keep us safe. \n\n~From Sundays & Seasons
URL:https://phlc.org/event/worship-service-8/
LOCATION:Sanctuary\, 11403 Perry Highway\, Wexford\, PA\, United States
CATEGORIES:PHLC
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SUMMARY:Saturday Evening Service!
DESCRIPTION:Join us for Special Saturday Evening Service  — We Make a Place for Everyone!\n\nAbundance from Scraps\nJesus is able to feed us abundantly\, even with scraps. He meets earthly needs by feeding the crowds and continues now to offer himself as holy meal\, freely given to all\, no matter their income or rank in society. Advertisers have trained us that what’s proclaimed as “free” usually isn’t. More often\, it’s a ploy to get our money for some other\, larger\, purchase. Today we are invited to trust and receive Jesus’ free gift of love without mistrusting that he’s got some scheme up his sleeve. \nIt can be hard to relax and trust God to take care of us and nourish us with the mere scraps we often see around us. We panic and take matters into our own hands instead of trusting. We experience that crushing sense of responsibility\, not just to ourselves\, but to our children or parents or other loved ones to keep them fed and clothed and healthy. Trusting as the crowd did that day seems completely foreign to those of us living in North America\, abundant in resources. \nWith food freely given\, with quantity enough to feed only a few\, Jesus makes this miracle\, and there are leftovers to clean up. But for most of us\, belief comes slowly and warily when we’ve been burned by experience: How will there be enough for all of us\, when we’ve been the last one at the lunch line\, the late arrival at the party\, and everything’s gone? What if we see people in the crowd we don’t want fed and jostle our way to the head of the line to get first choice? Will it be fair? Trusting that our daily bread and even our very lives are in God’s hands is hard to do as we grow older and are burdened by responsibility\, but God has compassion for every member of the crowd\, and we are blessed and invited to be joyful recipients of that generosity. \n\n~From Sundays & Seasons
URL:https://phlc.org/event/saturday-evening-service/
LOCATION:Sanctuary\, 11403 Perry Highway\, Wexford\, PA\, United States
CATEGORIES:PHLC
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260726T093000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260726T103000
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SUMMARY:Worship Service
DESCRIPTION:Join us at 9:30 am on Sundays — We Make a Place for Everyone!\n\nThe Kingdom of Heaven Is Like . . .\nA string of parables describe the kingdom of heaven\, and then we hear Jesus’ question: “Have you understood all this?” The mustard seed\, yeast\, hidden treasure\, pearls—these bring good news of growth and joy and riches. Then come the fish\, the furnace of fire\, and the weeping and gnashing of teeth. Once again this week we hear of a God of mercy and justice. Once again there is good news to be heard in Paul’s letter to the church at Rome—nothing will ever separate us from God’s love in Christ Jesus. How will we reconcile these two images of God? \n“Kingdoms” are not common in our world. When most of us think about kingdoms\, we call up images of British or other royalty—jeweled crowns\, a palace. At the time the Gospel of Matthew was written\, the people were subject to the empire\, or kingdom\, of Rome. Perhaps the writer wants us to contrast the oppressive rule of Rome with a vision of heaven’s kingdom of love and mercy. The translation of the Greek basileia\, a feminine word usually rendered in English as “kingdom\,” is difficult. The writer of Matthew may have used the expression “kingdom of heaven” instead of “kingdom of God” in order not to offend Jewish Christ-believers who honored the word for God by avoiding its use. \nKing Solomon asks God for the wisdom to discern between good and evil\, for the understanding to live out both justice and mercy as a ruler of God’s people. God was pleased with Solomon’s request. The wisdom Solomon seeks to rule his earthly kingdom reflects the wisdom of the kingdom of heaven. King Solomon was variously successful in his discernment of good and evil\, as are we. \n\n~From Sundays & Seasons
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LOCATION:Sanctuary\, 11403 Perry Highway\, Wexford\, PA\, United States
CATEGORIES:PHLC
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260719T093000
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SUMMARY:Worship Service
DESCRIPTION:Join us at 9:30 am on Sundays — We Make a Place for Everyone!\nJudgment and Mercy\nMatthew’s gospel knows little compromise: sheep or goats\, wheat or weeds\, good or evil. Finding the good news of God’s love for all people\, for all creation\, can be a challenge in this book. Today’s gospel is no exception. Jesus interprets a parable for the disciples; he announces that all evildoers will be thrown into the furnace of fire\, while the righteous will shine like the sun. The “Son of Man” will judge the world. Matthew’s phrase “The kingdom of heaven may be compared to . . .” occurs here for the first time in this gospel (Matt. 13:24). Jesus’ parable is a genuine metaphor—it is best viewed as a whole with no point-by-point comparison. The kingdom of believers has the same potential as those of the world to do good and to do evil. Jesus’ allegorical interpretation encourages believers to strive for righteousness and emphasizes God as judge. \nHowever\, in his letter to the church at Rome\, Paul focuses on God as merciful judge. He proclaims that all creation will be freed from decay and receive redemption. Paul reminds us that our hope lies with God\, our parent through a spirit of adoption. This dichotomous picture of God as judge and giver of mercy began with last Sunday’s texts and evidences itself in readings from Romans and Matthew across the next four Sundays. In some cases the God of mercy is highlighted in Paul’s letter\, at other times in the gospel. This good news\, however\, is always present! \nThe exercise of judgment and mercy reflects God’s emphasis on justice over fairness. A fair God condemns those who do evil. A just God moves beyond fairness to justice\, peace\, and reconciliation. As evil-doers\, sinners\, one and all\, we are grateful for God’s justice towards us and all people. \n~From Sundays & Seasons
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LOCATION:Sanctuary\, 11403 Perry Highway\, Wexford\, PA\, United States
CATEGORIES:PHLC
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260712T093000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260712T103000
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SUMMARY:Worship Service
DESCRIPTION:Join us at 9:30 am on Sundays — We Make a Place for Everyone!\nLife in Every Direction\nWe can identify death in every direction. We see war\, hunger\, addiction\, poverty\, a dying planet\, and broken hearts. This is not a new story. The children of Israel surely saw death in every direction\, wandering in the desert and at least occasionally wondering about their next meal. Paul looks at his own life and\, at first\, sees nothing beyond spiritual death. He reminds us that death is not just physical\, but also spiritual. Then\, in the parable of the sower\, three-fourths of the seeds die and three-fourths of the sections of the field are inhospitable to flourishing life. Sometimes\, life isn’t even given a chance. We might look at the world and ourselves and only see the places that are inhospitable to God’s love. \nToday’s texts all go a step further\, however\, to articulate or reveal God bringing forth life where there is only death in every direction. Cypress and myrtle trees rise up in the place of thorns and briars (Isa. 55:13). “Christ Jesus has set [us] free from the law of sin and of death\,” and the life-giving Spirit dwells in us (Rom. 8:2\, 10).The parable of the sower elicits reflection\, repentance\, and\, ultimately\, new life from its readers and hearers in considering the sort of spiritual life they practice. Are we hospitable or inhospitable to God’s word? This parable is a vivid reminder of all God has overcome—rocks\, scorching sun\, thorns\, and snatching—to bring life to the world. God brings forth life in places where people see only death. \n~From Sundays & Seasons
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LOCATION:Sanctuary\, 11403 Perry Highway\, Wexford\, PA\, United States
CATEGORIES:PHLC
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SUMMARY:Worship Service
DESCRIPTION:Join us at 9:30 am on Sundays — We Make a Place for Everyone!\nWhen a Yoke Means Freedom\nToday’s gospel reading contains iconic words from Jesus: “Come to me\, all you who are weary and are carrying heavy burdens\, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you\, and learn from me\, for I am gentle and humble in heart\, and you will find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy\, and my burden is light” (Matt. 11:28-30). Jesus offers a yoke to tired listeners and tells them that a yoke will give them rest. The yoke as a means to rest was a strange idea for the disciples\, and it ought to sound strange to us as well. The early hearers of this biblical passage would have known a yoke to be a means of engaging the energy of oxen as heavy lifters in the enterprise of farming. Yokes are still employed in our world and they are still a burden and a way of harnessing animals’ hard work. The first ancient readers or hearers of Matthew also viewed a yoke as a symbol of obedience to God’s law and wisdom. Generally\, our instinct is to resist yokes and laws\, or at least not immediately connect them with the idea of freedom. Through the image of the yoke\, however\, Jesus invites us to think of God’s law and wisdom as a means to surrender\, give way\, and accept something graceful and positive—rest\, ease\, lightness. Jesus reframes the idea of a yoke by telling us that a yoke will help us grow as disciples. The gospel links humility to freedom. \n~From Sundays & Seasons
URL:https://phlc.org/event/worship-service-5/
LOCATION:Sanctuary\, 11403 Perry Highway\, Wexford\, PA\, United States
CATEGORIES:PHLC
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260628T093000
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SUMMARY:Worship Service
DESCRIPTION:Join us at 9:30 am on Sundays — We Make a Place for Everyone!\nLife in Christ Includes Praise and Lament\nThough we may prefer to think of God giving us lives of joy and ease\, a full life in Christ also includes sorrow and grief. To the extent we are willing to acknowledge God’s presence in every circumstance\, our faith becomes integrated and sustainable through a lifetime. \nThe texts for today offer a survey of faith-full moments for the people of God\, from arguably the most disturbing story in all our scriptures (Genesis 22; semicontinuous series) to the proclamation of God’s everlasting faithfulness (Psalms 89 and 13). \nDoes our worship avoid faithful lament? \nMarked by transformation as clear and life and death (Romans 6)\, the disciple naturally embodies the gospel of Jesus Christ. Like it or not\, this includes moments of sadness\, grief\, and betrayal that were very much a part of Jesus’ faithful journey. If our lives are identified with Christ\, disciples can name both joys and sorrows as dimensions of Christ’s story and purpose. \nThe greatest challenge of faith for most Christians is the moment of suffering\, so this day invites us to practice faithful lament. In an age of denial when difficult things are swept under the rug\, we may resist the idea that God wants anything to do with suffering. Our scriptures\, however\, ensure we do not avoid earth-bound realities. The psalmist wails a prayer in faith that not only laments abandonment by God but also confesses God’s steadfast love (Psalm 13; semicontinuous series). The story of Abraham and Isaac haunts our imaginations when we expect God to make life easy. \nWorship calls us to faithfully lament as well as praise. Let today be a service of full-hearted proclamation of the depths of life in Christ. \n~From Sundays & Seasons
URL:https://phlc.org/event/worship-service-15/
LOCATION:Sanctuary\, 11403 Perry Highway\, Wexford\, PA\, United States
CATEGORIES:PHLC
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260621T093000
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SUMMARY:Worship Service
DESCRIPTION:Join us at 9:30 am on Sundays — We Make a Place for Everyone!\nGod Comes First\nGod is\, the theologians say\, transcendent—beyond us\, always exceeding our easy grasp. Recognizing God’s awesome transcendence brings a reevaluation of other values. The God of vertigo-inspiring infinitude is also the God who know the hairs of our head. Trusting this God\, fear is defanged and faith becomes a sort of courage. We live in faithful relationship to the hair-counting God as we joyfully “acknowledge” the one who acknowledges us. And as we do so\, reveling in the intimacy of God’s loving regard for us\, other relationships\, even familial ones\, take on a different cast. God comes first\, we realize\, not only in priority\, but ontologically\, “in the beginning” (John 1:1). Before the God who is at once gracious and transcendent\, we “lose” our lives and discover the true life in following the way of Jesus the crucified Son. \n~From Sundays & Seasons
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LOCATION:Sanctuary\, 11403 Perry Highway\, Wexford\, PA\, United States
CATEGORIES:PHLC
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260614T093000
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SUMMARY:Worship Service
DESCRIPTION:Join us at 9:30 am on Sundays — We Make a Place for Everyone!\nPlentiful Harvest\nIn today’s gospel reading\, Jesus speaks of the church’s mission with images drawn from daily life. The harvest is already plentiful\, he says\, but laborers are needed for work in the fields of daily life. What are we to do? We are to do that to which our worship invites us: Let our conversation be shaped by the good news\, extend Christ’s peace wherever we find ourselves\, and share our bread with the hungry. \n~From Sundays & Seasons
URL:https://phlc.org/event/worship-service-4/
LOCATION:Sanctuary\, 11403 Perry Highway\, Wexford\, PA\, United States
CATEGORIES:PHLC
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260607T093000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260607T103000
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SUMMARY:Worship Service
DESCRIPTION:Join us at 9:30 am on Sundays — We Make a Place for Everyone!\nLight\, Warmth\, and Watering\nThe weeks of summer coincide with the beginning of the Pentecost season. Summer brings sunny warmth\, growing crops\, and the promise of harvest: images of the Holy Spirit’s presence and activity in our lives\, the church\, and the world. Hosea speaks of God’s presence as the dawn\, as a gentle shower\, as light. In our life together as a community of faith\, what needs light\, warmth\, and watering to grow and flourish? How might we be attentive to others’ needs to receive this nourishment through God’s words of life and holy supper? \n~From Sundays & Seasons
URL:https://phlc.org/event/worship-service-3/
LOCATION:Sanctuary\, 11403 Perry Highway\, Wexford\, PA\, United States
CATEGORIES:PHLC
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260531T093000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260531T103000
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SUMMARY:Worship Service
DESCRIPTION:Join us at 9:30 am on Sundays — We Make a Place for Everyone!\nCelebrating Our God beyond Understanding\nThe festival of the Holy Trinity celebrates the wonder of relationship with God while leaving us distinctly dissatisfied with our limited understanding of what God is. While guarding against the idolatry of language\, we survey our scripture\, doctrine\, creeds\, and symbols of our heritage. Equally important\, we pray for God to inspire fresh\, innovative ideas of God in the present moment. \nToday’s gospel contains one of the few biblical references to the trinitarian formula. As the eleven are commissioned to make disciples\, baptize\, and teach\, we are invited to consider our calling to influence the world with the good news of God’s love. The text from Second Corinthians also includes a kind of naming of the Holy Trinity in an affectionate sign-off of a personal letter. With the psalm praising God the creator and sustainer of all creation\, Genesis 1 relates the first of two creation stories\, this one an ancient liturgy celebrating God as a divine plural. \nThat God that is beyond our understanding may be both troubling and comforting. The temptation may be to attempt to apprehend the idea of God with our intellect\, offering the worshiping assembly a showcase of various models for God. The result is usually disappointing and feeds our bias toward intellectualism. Another possibility is to celebrate God’s presence in all its glory and colorful wonder and our belonging to this wonder-full God. \n~From Sundays & Seasons
URL:https://phlc.org/event/worship-service-13/
LOCATION:Sanctuary\, 11403 Perry Highway\, Wexford\, PA\, United States
CATEGORIES:PHLC
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260524T093000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260524T103000
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SUMMARY:Worship Service
DESCRIPTION:Join us at 9:30 am on Sundays — We Make a Place for Everyone!\nGod Gives More than Enough\nIt is the “first day of the week” (John 20:19)\, the day of the new creation\, but to those locked away in the upper room in fear\, the world is as it always has been. So entrenched are they in the ways of grief and guilt that the Risen One in their midst needs to offer his life-giving invitation twice: “Peace be with you.” The logic of the new age is peace\, not retribution; forgiveness\, not vengeance. With the invitation to new life comes also the means: the gift of the Holy Spirit\, breathed upon them and within them. Just as the Father sent Jesus into the world\, so now are these disciples sent as witnesses to God’s saving work. \nPentecost is therefore the crowning achievement of the Jesus story. Now\, more than ever\, these huddled disciples would have just cause to sing the “Dayenu” (“It would have been enough”) verses from the Passover seder meal\, but revised: It would have been enough for the Word and wisdom of God to have been born in the flesh . . . Dayenu! It would have been enough for the Word to grow to adulthood and share his stunning parables about God’s gracious activity in the world . . . Dayenu! It would have been enough for this Word to say to his enemies\, “Father\, forgive them” . . . Dayenu! It would have been enough for this Word to have died on a cross for us . . . Dayenu! It would have been enough that he rose again in blessing\, not vengeance . . . Dayenu! But now\, beyond what we would even expect—the Word becomes our word and it is written on our hearts at Pentecost . . . Dayenu! It is enough\, and more than enough to enflame our ministry of reconciliation in a world in need of a healing word. \n~From Sundays & Seasons
URL:https://phlc.org/event/worship-service-12/
LOCATION:Sanctuary\, 11403 Perry Highway\, Wexford\, PA\, United States
CATEGORIES:PHLC
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260517T093000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260517T103000
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SUMMARY:Worship Service
DESCRIPTION:Join us at 9:30 am on Sundays — We Make a Place for Everyone!\nOverhearing Jesus\nAt the ascension we\, like the disciples in today’s reading in Acts\, are left looking at the sky. But in the High Priestly Prayer (John 17)\, Jesus brings us back to earth. In the prayer he speaks not only from the perspective of the risen and ascended one\, but as the Word of God\, now made flesh. The prayer anticipates the accomplishments of this Word\, which does not return empty (Isa. 55:11)\, namely in the fulfillment of the “hour” of Jesus’ crucifixion and resurrection. It is as if Jesus has already ascended “to my Father and your Father\, to my God and your God” (John 20:17)\, and has returned to tell us something vital. \nAs we overhear Jesus\, we learn that God’s character and motive are identical to those of Jesus\, who has now\, fully and completely\, “made God’s name known.” We no longer have to speculate about the nature of God. God’s purposes and love are made known in Jesus. But we also learn about ourselves. Jesus’ prayer frequently mentions the “world”—the world at once hostile to God and God’s anointed\, and yet also beloved of God (John 3:16). With Jesus’ commissioning today we have our work to do\, to make God known in and through Christ Jesus. The Living One works through us as “words within the world\,” who no longer seek meaning among the dead\, but are empowered to make known the vibrant\, new reality of Easter. \n~From Sundays & Seasons
URL:https://phlc.org/event/worship-service-11/
LOCATION:Sanctuary\, 11403 Perry Highway\, Wexford\, PA\, United States
CATEGORIES:PHLC
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