07/08 Sermon Posted (Click to listen)
“Unsettling Wilderness Voices”
Preaching: Rev Emma Chattin
What if the source of you being unsettled comes from within?

First Reading: Mark 1:12-13
Second Reading: ~ adapted from Rev. Nadia Bolz-Weber

07/01 Sermon Posted (Click to listen)
“Faith”
Preaching: Rev Emma Chattin
Unsettled Soul: Do You Want To Be Healed??
Our healing is often found in the place where we don’t want to go.

First Reading: John 5:1-7
Second Reading: ~ adapted from Father Richard Rohr in
“Falling Upward: A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life”

06/24 Sermon Posted (Click to listen)
“Faith”
Preaching: Rev Emma Chattin
What is going to get you to the other side?
Not fear. But calm — and faith.

First Reading: Mark 4:35-41
Second Reading: ~ adapted from Karoline Lewis in “The Other Side”


Note: Parting Blessings for Jane and Jeannie
Join us on Sunday June 24 as we have a special parting blessing for long-term MCC NoVA church members,
Jeanne and Jane Bennett-Bailey, as they prepare to take off in their new RV to see the country. They have been such an integral presence in our church for 20+ years, tackling everything thrown their way with grace, determination and humor. To say we will miss them is an understatement!
Join us as we send them off with our blessing!!

06/17 Sermon Posted (Click to listen)
“Growing Up”
Preaching: Rev Emma Chattin
How big are your branches, and who nests in your shade?

First Reading: Mark 4:26-34
Second Reading: ~ adapted from Anne Lamott in “Hallelujah Anyway: Rediscovering Mercy”
Third Reading: ~ from Meister Eckhart

06/10 Sermon Posted (Click to listen)
“Forming Family (Are You Crazy?)”
Preaching: Rev Emma Chattin

First Reading: Mark 3:20-35
Second Reading: ~ from “The Queer Innovation of a Family based on Choice and Necessity” from EFNIKS.com
Third Reading: -from Virginia Church

06/03 Sermon Posted (Click to listen)
“Look for that Rainbow”
Preaching: Frank Vance

05/27 Sermon Posted (Click to listen)
“Dance of Three”
Preaching: Rev Emma Chattin
Sometimes it is when we question what we have been told and taught that we are truly open to new understandings and transformation. Join us today, Trinity Sunday, as we reflect with Nicodemus in John 3:1-12, Margaret Wheatly in “Turning to One Another”, and Father Richard Rohr in “The Divine Dance: The Trinity and Your Transformation”.
It is truly a “Dance of Three!”

First Reading: John 3:1-12
Second Reading: from Margaret Wheatly in “Turning to One Another”
Third Reading:
Adapted from Father Richard Rohr, in
“The Divine Dance: The Trinity and Your Transformation”
Sunday morning worship … Come Join Us at 11AM on Sunday Morning!

Sterling performed a Vivaldi piece on his boxwood flute (Click to listen!)

05/20 Sermon Posted (Click to listen)
“TO HEAR, TO SEE, TO SPEAK, TO DO”
Preaching: Duane Bowers

05/13 Sermon Posted (Click to listen)
“Now That You’re Gone” (Which Way Did He Go?)
Preaching: Rev Emma Chattin
What does the Ascention mean for us today?

First Reading: Luke 24:44-53
Second Reading: Adapted from Anne Lamott in Hallelujah Anyway: Rediscovering Mercy

Sunday morning worship … Come Join Us at 11AM on a Sunday Morning!

Image from 2018 Fairfax Interfaith Friendship Walk 05/06/18

05/06 Sermon Posted (Click to listen)
“Friend Request”
Preaching: Rev Emma Chattin
What does “Friendship” mean in a world where the concept of “friend” may be casual, and at the same time, Big Business?

First Reading: John 15:9-17
Second Reading: From A. Powell Davies

Sunday morning worship … Come Join Us at 11AM on a Sunday Morning!