First Pres Etown: Recent Episodes
Chelsea Benham
We are a welcoming and inclusive church community in Elizabethtown, KY. At First Presbyterian Etown, our doors are open to everyone. Our mission is to address needs in God's name while extending Christ's love in relationships.
This podcast has our weekly sermons and other updates from the life of the church.
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Rev. Chelsea Benham preaching on Mark 9:1-8 on February 11, 2024.
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Rev. Chelsea Benham preaching on Mark 5:34-43 on February 4, 2024.
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Rev. Chelsea Benham preaching on Mark 5:1-20 on January 28, 2024.
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Rev. Sandra Moon preaching on Matthew 25:14-20 on January 21, 2024.
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Rev. Chelsea Benham preaching on Mark 2:13-22 on January 14, 2024.
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Rev. Chelsea Benham preaching on Mark 1:32-45 on January 7, 2024.
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Candy Ott preaching on December 31, 2023.
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Rev. Chelsea Benham preaching a Christmas Message on December 24, 2023.
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Rev. Chelsea Benham preaching on Ezra 3:1-4, 10-14 on December 17, 2023.
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Rev. Chelsea Benham preaching on Isaiah 40:1-11 on December 10, 2023.
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Rev. Chelsea Benham preaching on Jeremiah 33:14-18 on December 3, 2023.
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Rev. Chelsea Benham preaching on 2 Kings 22:14-20 on November 26, 2023.
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Rev. Chelsea Benham preaching on Isaiah 11:1-10 on November 19, 2023.
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Rev. Chelsea Benham preaching on Hosea 11:1-9 on November 12, 2023.
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Rev. Chelsea Benham preaching on 1 Kings 17:18-39 on October 29, 2023.
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Rev. Chelsea Benham preaching on 2 Samuel 6:1-15 on October 22, 2023.
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Rev. Chelsea Benham preaching on Ruth 4:13-17 on October 15, 2023.
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Rev. Val Goins preaching on Deuteronomy 6:4-9 on October 8, 2023.
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Rev. Chelsea Benham preaching on Exodus 3:1-15 on October 1, 2023.
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Rev. Chelsea Benham preaching on Genesis 32:9-13, 22-30 on September 24, 2023.
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Rev. Chelsea Benham preaching on Genesis 18:1-15, 21:1-7 on September 17, 2023.
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Rev. Chelsea Benham preaching on Genesis 2:4b-25 on September 10, 2023.
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Jeff Boyd preaching on Matthew 25:31-46 on September 3, 2023.
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Rev. Chelsea Benham preaching on John 6:25-35 on August 27, 2023.
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Rev. Chelsea Benham preaching on 1 Corinthians 11:17-26 on August 20, 2023.
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Rev. Chelsea Benham preaching on Matthew 14:13-21 on August 13, 2023.
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Rev. Chelsea Benham preaching on Psalm 118:1-9, 18-24 on August 6, 2023.
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Rev. Chelsea Benham preaching on Psalm 61:1-5 (The Message) on July 30, 2023.
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Rev. Chelsea Benham preaching on Psalm 62 on July 23, 2023.
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Rev. Chelsea Benham preaching on Psalm 126 on July 16, 2023.
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Rev. Chelsea Benham preaching on Psalm 139 on July 9, 2023.
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Rev. Paul Seebeck preaching on Matthew 10:40-42 on July 2, 2023.
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Rev. Paul Seebeck preaching on Matthew 10:26-39 on June 25, 2023.
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Rev. Paul Seebeck preaching on Matthew 10:1-8 on June 18, 2023.
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Rev. Paul Seebeck preaching on Matthew 9:18-26 on June 11, 2023.
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Rev. Paul Seebeck preaching on 2 Corinthians 13:11-13 & Matthew 28:16-20 on June 4, 2023.
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Rev. Paul Seebeck preaching on Acts 2:1-21 on May 28, 2023.
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Rev. Paul Seebeck preaching on Luke 24:44-53 on May 21, 2023.
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Alex Pickell preaching on Acts 17:22-31 on May 14, 2023.
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Rev. Paul Seebeck preaching on John 14:1-14 on May 7, 2023.
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Rev. Paul Seebeck preaching on John 10:1-11 on April 30, 2023.
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Rev. Paul Seebeck preaching on April 23, 2023.
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Rev. Paul Seebeck preaching on John 20:19-31 on April 16, 2023.
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Rev. Chelsea Benham preaching on Matthew 18:21-35 on March 19, 2023.
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Rev. Chelsea Benham preaching on Mark 6:30-44 on March 12, 2023.
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Rev. Chelsea Benham preaching on Luke 22:41-42 on March 5, 2023.
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Rev. Chelsea Benham preaching on Matthew 6:5-15 on February 26, 2023.
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Rev. Chelsea Benham preaching on 1 John 3:11-24 on February 19, 2023.
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Alex Pickell preaching on John 21:15-25 on February 12, 2023.
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Rev. Chelsea Benham preaching on 1 John 4:7-21 on February 5, 2023.
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Rev. Chelsea Benham preaching on Luke 19:1-11 on January 29, 2023.
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Rev. Chelsea Benham preaching on Luke 17:11-19 on January 22, 2023.
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Rev. Chelsea Benham preaching on Luke 13:31-35 on January 15, 2023.
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Rev. Chelsea Benham preaching on Matthew 1:18-25 on December 18, 2022.
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Rev. Chelsea Benham preaching on Luke 1:46b-55 on December 11, 2022.
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Rev. Chelsea Benham preaching on Matthew 3:1-12 on December 4, 2022.
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Rev. Chelsea Benham preaching on Matthew 24:36-44 on November 27, 2022.
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Rev. Chelsea Benham preaching on Ephesians 4:22-24 on November 20, 2022.
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Rev. Chelsea Benham preaching on Acts 2:43-47 on November 13, 2022.
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Rev. Chelsea Benham preaching on 1 Corinthians 12:4-13 on November 6, 2022.
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Rev. Chelsea Benham preaching on Luke 5:1-11 on October 30, 2022.
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Rev. Chelsea Benham preaching on Luke 18:9-14 on October 23, 2022.
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Rev. Chelsea Benham preaching on 1 Corinthians 12:12-31 on October 9, 2022.
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Rev. Chelsea Benham preaching on 1 Corinthians 12:12-31 on October 2, 2022.
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Rev. Chelsea Benham preaching on Ephesians 4:25-5:2 on September 25, 2022.
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Rev. Chelsea Benham preaching on Psalm 139:1-18 on September 18, 2022.
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Rev. Chelsea Benham preaching on Deuteronomy 30:15-20 on September 4, 2022.
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Rev. Chelsea Benham preaching on John 6:3-13 on August 28, 2022.
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Rev. Chelsea Benham preaching on Matthews 6:24-34 on August 21, 2022.
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Rev. Chelsea Benham preaching on Luke 10:25-29 on August 14, 2022.
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Rev. Chelsea Benham preaching on Luke 30:15-20 on August 14, 2022.
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Rev. Chelsea Benham preaching on Mark 1:4-12 on August 7, 2022.
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Rev. Chelsea Benham preaching on Exodus 3:1-6 on July 31, 2022.
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Rev. Chelsea Benham preaching on Genesis 1:26-31 on July 24, 2022.
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Rev. Dr. John Odom preaching on 1 Corinthians 8:1-13 on July 17, 2022.
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Rev. Rick Upchurch preaching on Luke 10:25-37 on July 10, 2022.
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Elder Candy Ott preaching on Galatians 6:(1-6) 7-16 on July 3, 2022.
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Rev. Chelsea Benham preaching on Luke 11:27-28 on June 26, 2022.
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Rev. Chelsea Benham preaching on Hebrews 5:11-14 on June 19, 2022.
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Rev. Chelsea Benham preaching on Ephesians 3:1-12 on June 12, 2022.
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Rev. Chelsea Benham preaching on Acts 2:1-21 on May 29, 2022.
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Rev. Chelsea Benham preaching on Revelation 22:12-14, 16-17, 20-21 on May 29, 2022.
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Rev. Chelsea Benham preaching on Revelation 21:1-6 on May 15, 2022.
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Rev. Chelsea Benham preaching on Revelation 7:9-17 on May 8, 2022.
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Rev. Chelsea Benham preaching on Revelation 5 on May 1, 2022.
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Rev. Chelsea Benham preaching on Revelation 1:4-8 on April 24, 2022.
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Rev. Chelsea Benham preaching on Luke 24:1-13 on April 17, 2022.
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Rev. Chelsea Benham preaching on Luke 19:28-40 on April 10, 2022.
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How do we experience God? How do we "unplug" to connect with God, and how does it help us grow spiritually? Jesus tells us that God is always ready to connect with us.
Rev. Chelsea Benham preaching on Genesis 2:1-3 on April 3, 2022.
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How do we experience God? How do we embrace simplicity, and how does it help us grow spiritually? Jesus tells us that God is always ready to connect with us.
Rev. Chelsea Benham preaching on Luke 10:38-42 on March 27, 2022.
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How do we experience God? How do we listen for God, and how does it help us grow spiritually? Jesus tells us that God is always ready to connect with us.
Rev. Chelsea Benham preaching on John 10:1-5, 14 on March 20, 2022.
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How do we experience God? What is the practice of prayer, and how does it help us grow spiritually? Jesus tells us that God is always ready to connect with us.
Rev. Chelsea Benham preaching on Matthew 6:5-13 and Philippians 1:3-11 on March 13, 2022.
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How do we experience God? What is the practice of fasting, and how does it help us grow spiritually? Jesus tells us that God is always ready to connect with us.
Rev. Chelsea Benham preaching on Matthew 4:1-4 and 6:16-18 on March 6, 2022.
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We want to be loving and kind people, but there are people who just flat out annoy or anger us. What do we do? Jesus tells us to love those people and to pray for them. But it's hard! Jesus helps us to do hard things like this.
Rev. Chelsea Benham preaching on Luke 6:27-38 on February 20, 2022.
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What does God value? How do we get in sync with God's time?
Rev. Chelsea Benham preaching on Luke 6:17-26 on February 13, 2022.
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What would it have been like for Simon Peter to have Jesus tell him to row out to deep water and cast his fishing nets again, after he had been fishing all night with nothing to show for it? Why did Peter leave amazing haul of fish to follow Jesus? Pastor Chelsea shares a first-person monologue imagining what Peter might have said.
Rev. Chelsea Benham preaching on Luke 5:1-11 on February 6, 2022.
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Do you ever yearn for God's presence? What if encountering God was as simple as opening the Bible?
Rev. Chelsea Benham preaching on Luke 4:14-21 on January 30, 2022.
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Is there really enough for everyone? Enough food, happiness, love? Jesus was never worried about enough and just gave. How can we live into God's abundance?
Rev. Chelsea Benham preaching on John 2:1-11 on January 23, 2022.
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Who are we, and what is our purpose? Baptism reminds us of our identity and purpose.
Listen for how God calls you beloved.
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Rev. Chelsea Benham preaching on Luke 3:15-22 on January 16, 2022. #community #connection #etownky #etown #elizabethtown
What is real joy? And how do we follow the path to it?
Rev. Chelsea Benham preaching on Matthew 2:1-12 on January 9, 2022.
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Rev. Chelsea Benham preaching on Luke 2:1-20 on December 24, 2021, Christmas Eve.
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Repentance, the changing of our hearts and lives, can be painful sometimes. John the Baptist describes it like a fire. Maybe the fire can be cleansing, though, and through it God moves us to new life.
Rev. Chelsea Benham preaching on Luke 3:7-18 on December 12, 2021.
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John the Baptist was a nobody guy living in a nowhere place, the wilderness. Yet the Word of God came to him there in the wilderness, not to the powerful people who ruled at that time. God often works through unexpected people in unexpected places. Maybe even through us?
Rev. Chelsea Benham preaching on Luke 3:1-6 on December 5, 2021.
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After almost two years of living in the midst of a pandemic, it can be hard to continue to see signs of God's presence with us. We are all tired. But God promises that there are signs of hope around us, and we will see them. Maybe it's all about perspective...
Rev. Chelsea Benham preaching on Luke 21:25-36 on November 28, 2021.
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God calls us to share hope, and this is both a blessing and a challenge. Where is God sending us? What does God want us to do when we go?
In Matthew's Gospel, Jesus sends the disciples out and gives them instructions to follow in the steps of his ministry. We can do the same, when we look to each other.
Rev. Chelsea Benham preaching on Matthew 10:1-14 on November 21, 2021.
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If God has filled our future with hope, is there any chance of us actually getting there?
If only God would give us a one-way ticket to that bright and glorious future, or at least a trustworthy compass.
Perhaps, though, we have already been given a trustworthy compass. Paul writes to the church at Philippi with a blueprint almost for a hopeful life.
Rev. Chelsea Benham preaching on Philippians 2:1-13 on November 14, 2021.
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In the midst of disruption, we remember we stand with God’s strength and nourishment, and that we are part of a big BIG story filled with hope. We stand with the witness of the saints. How shall we live when things in life aren't going the way we want them to?
Rev. Chelsea Benham preaching on Jeremiah 29:1-14 on November 7, 2021.
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Hospitality is about keeping our hearts and minds open. And this allows us to see more of God. Who do we pass by or judge who is showing us the truth?
Rev. Chelsea Benham preaching on Luke 7:36-50 on October 31, 2021.
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Is everyone with a gift for hospitality a talkative extrovert who loves talking to strangers? Not at all! There are so many ways to welcome others. The story of Mary and Martha in Luke's gospel shows us there are different ways to serve, but what really matters is the heart we have for serving and welcoming.
Rev. Chelsea Benham preaching on Luke 10:38-42 on October 24, 2021.
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Where can we find Jesus? How do we welcome Jesus? Jesus tells us exactly how to do it: welcome and care for the least of these. Then we see there are opportunities to see Jesus everywhere.
Rev. Chelsea Benham preaching on Matthew 25:31-46 on October 17, 2021.
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We can only offer hospitality to other because God has first welcomed us. True or false? God welcomes us in creation in Genesis 1, and that changes everything. Rev. Chelsea Benham preaching on Genesis 1:1-2:4a on October 10, 2021.
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God calls us to practice hospitality, but what does that mean? Is hospitality just fancy hotels and preparing a 3-course meal for friends at your house? Biblical hospitality is much simpler, and deeper, than that.
Rev. Chelsea Benham preaching on Mark 10:13-16 on October 3, 2021.
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Our world is mired in division; differences leave us polarized. But God is undaunted by our differences and in fact works through them. God is working to bring us together.
Rev. Chelsea Benham preaching on Acts on September 19, 2021.
Contributor video/audio by Rev. Aisha Brooks-Johnson, provided by A Sanctified Art.
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When everything in our lives gets upended, where do we go? What do we do? We may not always know, but one way forward is to go together.
Rev. Chelsea Benham preaching on Ruth 1:1-22 on September 12, 2021.
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It can be hard to ask for help from others, but maybe being vulnerable is the way to connection and community with God and others.
Rev. Chelsea Benham preaching on 2 Timothy 4:9-18 on September 5, 2021.