Seasons - Staying Rooted In The Flow of Faith // Seasons of Doubt
Sunday, August 9th, 2026
Text:
Psalm 88
A song. A psalm of the Sons of Korah. For the director of music. According to mahalath leannoth. A maskil of Heman the Ezrahite.
1 Lord, you are the God who saves me;
day and night I cry out to you.
2 May my prayer come before you;
turn your ear to my cry.
3 I am overwhelmed with troubles
and my life draws near to death.
4 I am counted among those who go down to the pit;
I am like one without strength.
5 I am set apart with the dead,
like the slain who lie in the grave,
whom you remember no more,
who are cut off from your care.
6 You have put me in the lowest pit,
in the darkest depths.
7 Your wrath lies heavily on me;
you have overwhelmed me with all your waves.
8 You have taken from me my closest friends
and have made me repulsive to them.
I am confined and cannot escape;
9 my eyes are dim with grief.
I call to you, Lord, every day;
I spread out my hands to you.
10 Do you show your wonders to the dead?
Do their spirits rise up and praise you?
11 Is your love declared in the grave,
your faithfulness in Destruction?
12 Are your wonders known in the place of darkness,
or your righteous deeds in the land of oblivion?
13 But I cry to you for help, Lord;
in the morning my prayer comes before you.
14 Why, Lord, do you reject me
and hide your face from me?
15 From my youth I have suffered and been close to death;
I have borne your terrors and am in despair.
16 Your wrath has swept over me;
your terrors have destroyed me.
17 All day long they surround me like a flood;
they have completely engulfed me.
18 You have taken from me friend and neighbor—
darkness is my closest friend.
“Doubt is a difficult animal to master because it requires that we learn the difference between doubting God and doubting what we believe about God. The former has the potential to destroy faith; that latter has the power to enrich and refine it. The former is a vice; the latter a virtue.”
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Seasons - Staying Rooted In The Flow of Faith // Seasons of (Good) Grief
Sunday, August 2nd, 2026
Definition: Grief is the deep, natural emotional pain and readjustment that follows any significant loss, serving as the silent reflection of love and the mind's attempt to bridge the gap between what was and what is.
Text: John 11:17-44
17 When Jesus arrived at Bethany, he was told that Lazarus had already been in his grave for four days. 18 Bethany was only a few miles down the road from Jerusalem, 19 and many of the people had come to console Martha and Mary in their loss. 20 When Martha got word that Jesus was coming, she went to meet him. But Mary stayed in the house. 21 Martha said to Jesus, “Lord, if only you had been here, my brother would not have died. 22 But even now I know that God will give you whatever you ask.”
23 Jesus told her, “Your brother will rise again.”
24 “Yes,” Martha said, “he will rise when everyone else rises, at the last day.”
25 Jesus told her, “I am the resurrection and the life. Anyone who believes in me will live, even after dying. 26 Everyone who lives in me and believes in me will never ever die. Do you believe this, Martha?”
27 “Yes, Lord,” she told him. “I have always believed you are the Messiah, the Son of God, the one who has come into the world from God.” 28 Then she returned to Mary. She called Mary aside from the mourners and told her, “The Teacher is here and wants to see you.” 29 So Mary immediately went to him.
30 Jesus had stayed outside the village, at the place where Martha met him. 31 When the people who were at the house consoling Mary saw her leave so hastily, they assumed she was going to Lazarus’s grave to weep. So they followed her there. 32 When Mary arrived and saw Jesus, she fell at his feet and said, “Lord, if only you had been here, my brother would not have died.”
33 When Jesus saw her weeping and saw the other people wailing with her, a deep anger welled up within him, and he was deeply troubled. 34 “Where have you put him?” he asked them.
They told him, “Lord, come and see.” 35 Then Jesus wept. 36 The people who were standing nearby said, “See how much he loved him!” 37 But some said, “This man healed a blind man. Couldn’t he have kept Lazarus from dying?”
38 Jesus was still angry as he arrived at the tomb, a cave with a stone rolled across its entrance. 39 “Roll the stone aside,” Jesus told them.
But Martha, the dead man’s sister, protested, “Lord, he has been dead for four days. The smell will be terrible.”
40 Jesus responded, “Didn’t I tell you that you would see God’s glory if you believe?” 41 So they rolled the stone aside. Then Jesus looked up to heaven and said, “Father, thank you for hearing me. 42 You always hear me, but I said it out loud for the sake of all these people standing here, so that they will believe you sent me.” 43 Then Jesus shouted, “Lazarus, come out!” 44 And the dead man came out, his hands and feet bound in graveclothes, his face wrapped in a headcloth. Jesus told them, “Unwrap him and let him go!”
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Seasons - Staying Rooted In The Flow of Faith // Seasons of Fruit
Sunday, July 26th, 2026
Opening Worship
I’m Building Me a Home
Verse 1:
I’m building us a home (I’m building us a home)
I’m building us a home (I’m building us a home)
I’m building us a home (I’m building us a home)
I’m building us a home (I’m building us a home)
Refrain:
This earthly house
Is gonna soon decay
My soul’s gotta have
My Lord, somewhere to stay
Verse 2:
When you hear me praying (When you hear me praying)
I’m building us a home (I’m building us a home)
Verse 3:
When I’m seeking justice (When I’m seeking justice)
I’m building us a home (I’m building us a home)
Verse 4:
When I’m loving mercy (When I’m loving mercy)
I’m building us a home (I’m building us a home)
Verse 5:
When I’m walking humbly (When I’m walking humbly)
I’m building us a home (I’m building us a home)
Joy In Resistance
Verse 1:
What the world needs now is joy in resistance
We will fight the good fight with or without your assistance
Move out of the way if you can’t support the mission
What the world needs now is joy in resistance
Verse 2:
What the world needs now is faith in resistance…
Verse 3:
What the world needs now is love in resistance…
Verse 4:
What the world needs now is hope in resistance…
Dirt Discussions:
Say your name and favorite fruit snack.
Do you get “Hangry” often, not often, or not at all? If so, share a hangry story; if not, share your secret in being content ^_^)
What’s a false truth you were led to believe, and how did you come to find out it was false?
Text:
Matthew 21:18-22 (FNV)
A FIG TREE WITH NO FRUIT
18 The next morning, as he was returning to Village of Peace (Jerusalem), he became hungry. 19 He saw a fig tree on the side of the road and went to it, but when he came to the tree, he found only leaves.
He spoke to the tree, “You will never again grow fruit!” and the fig tree began to wither away right then and there.
20 When the ones who walked the road with him saw the tree withering, they were amazed.
“How did it dry up and wither so quickly?” they asked.
21 “I speak from my heart, if you put all your trust in the Great Spirit and do not doubt that the Knower of Hearts hears you,” he answered them, “not only will you do what was done with this fig tree, but even if you speak to this mountain and say, ‘Be lifted up and go into the great waters,’ it will happen. 22 So when you send your prayers to the Great Spirit, believe that he hears you, and whatever you ask for will be yours.”
Mark 11:12-14 (FNV)
THE FIG TREE WITHOUT FRUIT
The next day, as Creator Sets Free (Jesus) was returning to Village of Peace (Jerusalem) from House of Figs (Bethany), he became hungry. He saw a fig tree with leaves on it in the distance and went to see whether he might find some figs on it. But when he came to the tree, he found only leaves, for it was not the season for figs.
He responded by speaking to the tree, “No one will eat fruit from you ever again!” And his followers heard what he said.
Closing Worship
Nothing I Hold Onto
Verse:
I lean not on my own understanding
My life is in the hands of the maker of heaven (2x)
I give it all to you God
Trusting that you’ll make something beautiful out of me (2x)
Repeat
Bridge:
I will climb this mountain with my hands wide open…
(There’s nothing I hold onto
There’s nothing I hold onto
There’s nothing I hold onto
Cause’ I’m holding onto You)
Benediction
God of Seasons,
May we be people who:
Humbly walk the path of faith
Seeking your goodness in every time
As we reflect and learn from your loving ways
Help us to sense your presence everywhere
And give us hearts that break with what breaks yours
Be with us now as we go forth to love others and serve you
Wherever we may be
Amen.
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Seasons - Staying Rooted In The Flow of Faith // Seasons of Wrestling
Sunday, July 19th, 2026
Text:
Genesis 32:22-32
22 The same night he got up and took his two wives, his two maids, and his eleven children and crossed the ford of the Jabbok. 23 He took them and sent them across the stream, and likewise everything that he had. 24 Jacob was left alone, and a man wrestled with him until daybreak. 25 When the man saw that he did not prevail against Jacob, he struck him on the hip socket, and Jacob’s hip was put out of joint as he wrestled with him. 26 Then he said, “Let me go, for the day is breaking.” But Jacob said, “I will not let you go, unless you bless me.” 27 So he said to him, “What is your name?” And he said, “Jacob.” 28 Then the man said, “You shall no longer be called Jacob, but Israel, for you have striven with God and with humans and have prevailed.” 29 Then Jacob asked him, “Please tell me your name.” But he said, “Why is it that you ask my name?” And there he blessed him. 30 So Jacob called the place Peniel, saying, “For I have seen God face to face, yet my life is preserved.” 31 The sun rose upon him as he passed Penuel, limping because of his hip. 32 Therefore to this day the Israelites do not eat the thigh muscle that is on the hip socket, because he struck Jacob on the hip socket at the thigh muscle.
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Seasons - Staying Rooted In The Flow of Faith // Seasons of Failure
Sunday, July 12th, 2026
Text:
Luke 22:54-62
Peter Disowns Jesus (NIV)
54 Then seizing him, they led him away and took him into the house of the high priest. Peter followed at a distance. 55 And when some there had kindled a fire in the middle of the courtyard and had sat down together, Peter sat down with them. 56 A servant girl saw him seated there in the firelight. She looked closely at him and said, “This man was with him.”
57 But he denied it. “Woman, I don’t know him,” he said.
58 A little later someone else saw him and said, “You also are one of them.”
“Man, I am not!” Peter replied.
59 About an hour later another asserted, “Certainly this fellow was with him, for he is a Galilean.”
60 Peter replied, “Man, I don’t know what you’re talking about!” Just as he was speaking, the rooster crowed. 61 The Lord turned and looked straight at Peter. Then Peter remembered the word the Lord had spoken to him: “Before the rooster crows today, you will disown me three times.” 62 And he went outside and wept bitterly.
Luke 22:31-34
31 “Simon, Simon, listen! Satan has demanded to sift all of you like wheat, 32 but I have prayed for you that your own faith may not fail, and you, when once you have turned back, strengthen your brothers.” 33 And he said to him, “Lord, I am ready to go with you to prison and to death!” 34 Jesus said, “I tell you, Peter, the cock will not crow this day until you have denied three times that you know me.”
Luke 9:23-25
23 Then he said to them all, “If any wish to come after me, let them deny themselves and take up their cross daily and follow me. 24 For those who want to save their life will lose it, and those who lose their life for my sake will save it. 25 For what does it profit them if they gain the whole world but lose or forfeit themselves?
Matthew 27:3-5
3 When Judas, his betrayer, saw that Jesus was condemned, he repented and brought back the thirty pieces of silver to the chief priests and the elders. 4 He said, “I have sinned by betraying innocent blood.” But they said, “What is that to us? See to it yourself.” 5 Throwing down the pieces of silver in the temple, he departed, and he went and hanged himself.
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Seasons - Staying Rooted In The Flow of Faith // Seasons of Solitude
Sunday, July 5th, 2026
Text:
Luke 5:12-16
Jesus Cleanses a Man with a Skin Disease
12 Once when he was in one of the cities, a man covered with a skin disease was there. When he saw Jesus, he bowed with his face to the ground and begged him, “Lord, if you are willing, you can make me clean.” 13 Then Jesus stretched out his hand, touched him, and said, “I am willing. Be made clean.” Immediately the skin disease left him. 14 And he ordered him to tell no one. “But go, show yourself to the priest, and, as Moses commanded, make an offering for your cleansing, as a testimony to them.” 15 But now more than ever the word about Jesus spread abroad; many crowds were gathering to hear him and to be cured of their diseases. 16 Meanwhile, he would slip away to deserted places and pray.
Luke 4:1-2
The Testing of Jesus
1 Jesus, full of the Holy Spirit, returned from the Jordan and was led by the Spirit in the wilderness, 2 where for forty days he was tested by the devil. He ate nothing at all during those days, and when they were over he was famished.
Genesis 1:1-2
1 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. 2 Now the earth was formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters.
Quote:
“We are all alone, born alone, die alone, and we shall all someday look back on our lives and see that, in spite of our company, we were alone the whole way. I do not say lonely—at least, not all the time—but essentially, and finally, alone. This is what makes your self-respect so important, and I don't see how you can respect yourself if you must look in the hearts and minds of others for your happiness.”
- American journalist & author Hunter S Thompson
Psalm 1:1-3
Happy are those who do not follow the advice of the wicked or take the path that sinners tread or sit in the seat of scoffers, 2 but their delight is in the law of the Lord, and on his law they meditate day and night. 3 They are like trees planted by streams of water, which yield their fruit in its season, and their leaves do not wither. In all that they do, they prosper.