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Chuck Booker-Hirsch Sermon, 7/25: "Our Church: Vision Is *Everything*"

... and so it is! As we focus on God's grand framework of "Personal, Passionate, Progressive" for us, we will do so by worshiping as one in an informal summer fashion: gathering together in one of our two transepts (side sections of pews). Join us at 10! Continue

Added by Chuck Booker-Hirsch on July 23, 2010 at 5:46am — No Comments

Rev. Rona Kathryn "Katie" Deming There was great spiritual community at this morning's LOL. Please join us and explore how God is wor…

There was great spiritual community at this morning's LOL. Please join us and explore how God is working through scripture in your life! Continue

Added by Rev. Rona Kathryn "Katie" Deming on July 10, 2010 at 4:25pm — No Comments

Chuck Booker-Hirsch This Sunday's Worship (7/11): Sermon on the Mount continues!

Topics this Sunday include anger, lust, divorce, retaliation, enemies ... life's simple stuff. "Love your enemy": Oh, really?! And doesn't "Turn the other cheek" mean "Get hit with the other fist"? Scripture: Matthew 5:21-48. Come join us at 10a this Sunday! Continue

Added by Chuck Booker-Hirsch on July 9, 2010 at 11:30pm — No Comments

Chuck Booker-Hirsch 7/4: Sermon on the Mount series begins!

What does the Fourth have in common with the Sermon on the Mount? Think tyranny & idolatry, and standing up against them. "The Beatitudes and Beyond: 'Arise!'" is the message for tomorrow (Matthew 5:1-16). Come join us in our Communion celebration, beginning at 10! Continue

Added by Chuck Booker-Hirsch on July 3, 2010 at 7:30pm — No Comments

Chuck Booker-Hirsch Worship, 6/27, 10a: "With Faces Set"

Join us for Worship tomorrow -- a spiritual refresher on the cusp of another Potomac summer! Our Focus: a renewal of our outreach call as an urban/e congregation, "north-south", Rockville to DC ... & beyond. Scripture: Luke 9:51-62. Refreshments, as always, to follow. Beautiful Sanctuary ... Beautiful Music ... Beautiful People of God! Continue

Added by Chuck Booker-Hirsch on June 26, 2010 at 9:30am — No Comments

Chuck Booker-Hirsch Sunday's (6/20) Fathers Day/More Light Sunday Sermon ...

"Father God or Fatherland: "What Is Your Name?'" can be found here. Continue

Added by Chuck Booker-Hirsch on June 24, 2010 at 11:00am — No Comments

Rev. Rona Kathryn "Katie" Deming What's a parish associate?

Well, let's clarify a few things first. A parish associate is not the pastor, or assistant pastor, or co-pastor. A parish associate is clergy that has a primary ministry outside the church. We know that God works everywhere, inside and outside the church. Because that ministry is outside the church that clergy does well to have a formal relationship with a church to promote their own spiritual growth as well of the spiritual growth in the church. It is a relationship and not a call. (ie it is no… Continue

Added by Rev. Rona Kathryn "Katie" Deming on June 23, 2010 at 5:26pm — No Comments

Chuck Booker-Hirsch Summer Social Justice Cinema: July Fridays, 7:30p!

Our Community Theater (details: BPC Film Force More Powerful.doc) benefitting Bethesda Cares Outreach for the Homeless continues Friday, July 16, 23 & 30. Two 30-minute clips shown each week from A Force More Powerful: A Century of Nonviolent… Continue

Added by Chuck Booker-Hirsch on June 23, 2010 at 11:30am — No Comments

Chuck Booker-Hirsch This Sunday at BPC (June 20) ...

Summer Worship begins at 10 am. We celebrate & observe both Fathers Day and More Light Sunday, in honor of our new Statement of Welcome (left, below "Visit Us"). Sunday's Message: "Father God or Fatherland: 'What Is Your Name?'" (Mark 5:1-20 -- as creatively cast for us by biblical storyteller Jean Dudek). In these violent days, we have a hard choice to make: be followers of the Prince of Peace or a conception of a… Continue

Added by Chuck Booker-Hirsch on June 18, 2010 at 2:00pm — No Comments

Chuck Booker-Hirsch Our New Statement of Welcome!

Opposite on this page, you will note our brief, clear Statement of Welcome approved on June 15 by our Session (church board). Most mainline Protestant churches such as our own -- never exempt from the human condition -- have played a particularly bigoted role in rejecting our lesbian, gay, bisexual, & transgender sisters & brothers from full participation in our congregations. We at BPC -- noted for our personal hospitality to all -- feel it our faithful responsibility to counter such an… Continue

Added by Chuck Booker-Hirsch on June 16, 2010 at 6:00pm — No Comments

Chuck Booker-Hirsch Sunday's Sermon: "God's Calculus of Grace" ...

... can be found here. Continue

Added by Chuck Booker-Hirsch on June 16, 2010 at 5:30pm — No Comments

Chuck Booker-Hirsch This Sunday (6/13)

... you are invited to join us for our Annual Church Picnic on our lovely grounds overlooking downtown Bethesda! Look for our rainbow banners on Wilson Lane; parking at Bethesda Elementary on Arlington, 100 yards away. Picnic begins at 12:15. During 11 am Worship, we dedicate new, state-of-the-art visual and audio technology in the Sanctuary to creatively enhance our sharing of God's good news. Sermon: "God's Calculus of Grace" (Luke 7:36-8:3). Come join us at Worship and our Pi… Continue

Added by Chuck Booker-Hirsch on June 10, 2010 at 8:30pm — No Comments

Chuck Booker-Hirsch LGBT Inclusion: Sunday's Sermon (June 6) ...

... titled "When 'Hear We Stand' Meets 'Y'all Come", can be found here. Continue

Added by Chuck Booker-Hirsch on June 8, 2010 at 12:00pm — No Comments

Chuck Booker-Hirsch This Sunday (6/6): Hospitality for God's Rainbow People!

Per our Personal/ Hospitality covenant, we at BPC implicitly include all persons. Should we make our full welcome to our lesbian, gay, bisexual & transgender sisters & brothers more explicit to the world? This is the query before us at an open meeting this Sunday, post-Worship (12:15p, Fellowship Hall). Worship Message at 11: "When 'Y'all Come' Meets 'Here We Stand'" (Acts 8:26-40). Come join us as we commission our high school graduates &, later, explore the content of our explicit… Continue

Added by Chuck Booker-Hirsch on June 4, 2010 at 10:30am — No Comments

Chuck Booker-Hirsch Sermon, 5/30: "God, Experienced" ...

... can be found here. Continue

Added by Chuck Booker-Hirsch on June 2, 2010 at 3:30pm — No Comments

Chuck Booker-Hirsch Saturday Mornings: "Listen to Your Life!" Scripture Reflection

Whether church member, friend, or new guest, you are invited to join our small group every Saturday, 10-11:30a, at the Church House (7611 Clarendon). Through guided meditation, we read a scripture passage together, explore briefly "the Text in Context", & then spend most of our time on "the Word in Our World" -- as a church & especially as individuals. Refreshments & *great* fellowship served! Plenty of front curb parking & bike space by the front door. Bible knowledge regardless… Continue

Added by Chuck Booker-Hirsch on May 27, 2010 at 11:30pm — No Comments

Chuck Booker-Hirsch Pentecost Sermon (5/23): "The Conspiracy" ...

... can now be found here. Continue

Added by Chuck Booker-Hirsch on May 25, 2010 at 5:00pm — No Comments

Rev. Rona Kathryn "Katie" Deming Describing our fears

Describing our fears, Wendell Berry writes:

I go among trees and sit still.

all my stirring becomes quiet

around me like circles on water.

My tasks lie in their places

where I left them, asleep like cattle.

Then what is afraid of me comes

and lives a whil

… Continue

Added by Rev. Rona Kathryn "Katie" Deming on May 21, 2010 at 5:44pm — No Comments

Chuck Booker-Hirsch This Sunday (5/23) at BPC ...

... is the Day of Pentecost -- the birthday celebration of the Church universal! Theme for our Pentecost Season (May-Nov): "The Resurrection Is Ours!" Worship at 11 am; Christian ed at 9:45 am. Communion will be celebrated, along with the arrival of two new members: Yenny Delgado & Rob Rivers (reception following Worship for them). Sermon: "The Conspiracy". How was the earliest church a conspiracy against the social dominance of the day -- and how can ours be, as well? Continue

Added by Chuck Booker-Hirsch on May 21, 2010 at 3:57pm — No Comments

Chuck Booker-Hirsch Wed 5/19: Jesus on Tap today! ...

Come join us in downtown Bethesda at La Madeleine French Cafe, Old Georgetown near Woodmont, for supper (6:30p) &/or presentation (7:30p). Speakers: Yenny Delgado & Rob Rivers, BPC members, on their new Peruvian non-profit, Umbrella Initiatives. We meet in the Fireside Room. All are welcomed! Continue

Added by Chuck Booker-Hirsch on May 19, 2010 at 2:00pm — No Comments

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Chuck Booker-Hirsch

Sermon, 7/25: "Our Church: Vision Is *Everything*"

... and so it is! As we focus on God's grand framework of "Personal, Passionate, Progressive" for us, we will do so by worshiping as one in an informal summer fashion: gathering together in one of our two transepts (side sections of pews). Join us at 10!

Posted by Chuck Booker-Hirsch on July 23, 2010 at 5:46am

Chuck Booker-Hirsch

Summer Social Justice Cinema: July Fridays, 7:30p!

Our Community Theater (details: BPC Film Force More Powerful.doc) benefitting Bethesda Cares Outreach for the Homeless continues Friday, July 16, 23 & 30. Two 30-minute clips shown each week from A Force More Powerful: A Century of Nonviolent… Continue

Posted by Chuck Booker-Hirsch on June 23, 2010 at 11:30am

Chuck Booker-Hirsch

This Sunday's Worship (7/11): Sermon on the Mount continues!

Topics this Sunday include anger, lust, divorce, retaliation, enemies ... life's simple stuff. "Love your enemy": Oh, really?! And doesn't "Turn the other cheek" mean "Get hit with the other fist"? Scripture: Matthew 5:21-48. Come join us at 10a this Sunday!

Posted by Chuck Booker-Hirsch on July 9, 2010 at 11:30pm

Chuck Booker-Hirsch

Our New Statement of Welcome!

Opposite on this page, you will note our brief, clear Statement of Welcome approved on June 15 by our Session (church board). Most mainline Protestant churches such as our own -- never exempt from the human condition -- have played a particularly bigoted role in rejecting our lesbian, gay, bisexual, & transgender sisters & brothers from full participation in our congregations. We at BPC -- noted for our personal hospitality to all -- feel it our faithful responsibility to counter such an… Continue

Posted by Chuck Booker-Hirsch on June 16, 2010 at 6:00pm

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