Praise Worship Experience 11-30-2025

This week in worship, we begin our new Advent sermon series, "God Bless Us Every One: The Redemption of Scrooge." Rev. Josh Sherfey will be preaching a message titled, "Bah Humbug! Making Change!" The cultural context in which Dickens placed his powerful Christmas story was 1800’s England–a time of great divide between rich and poor–something on which Dickens wanted to shed a light. His main character, Ebenezer Scrooge, is clear as the story begins that the only redeeming value in life was in getting more money. He lives in resentment, fear and the ice-cold frozen state of watching out only for himself. God’s economy, on the other hand, says that there is enough for all and all are worthy of the abundance of life and joy, freedom and sustenance. Will we “make change” and move toward the richness of peace for all or will we continue to be chained by the poverty of exclusion?