You are invited to Worship on August 10 at 10 am Service.
The bulletin for this Sunday is available for viewing HERE.
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Ordinary Time
In Sacred God’s Eternal Time
Sunday, August 10, 2025, 10 am
Hot Topics for Summer
For the month of July, we will kick off 4th of July Celebration with Hot Topics for Summer, a 7-part sermon series on “America, the Land that I Love.” We will be examining four areas of American life today that are being challenged.
July 6: Part 1) “Brother, Can You Spare Me a Dime?”
Theme: Widening Income Inequality and the Biblical Ethics of Economic Justice
July 13: Part 2) “Just Whose Country Is It?”
Theme: History of Immigrants and assault on immigrants today
July 20: Part 3) “Do Not Give Your Mind Away”
Theme: Assault on Academic Freedom, Press Freedom, and Erasing History
July 27: Part 4) “We Are Not the Only Game in Town”
Theme: Climate Justice & Creation Care
Aug. 3: Part 5) “I Hate, Therefore I Am”
Theme: Economy of Hate and Othering as self-definition
Aug. 10: Part 6) “Things Hidden Since the Foundation of the World”
Theme: Phenomena of Victimizing and Scapegoating
Aug. 17: Part 7) “It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad World“
Theme: How do we anchor ourselves and find hope in a mad world?
Conclusion of the sermon series that ties everything together.
Children’s Time “The Lighthouse” Pastor John
Special Music Beautiful Isle of Somewhere David Rios, Trumpet
Above All
David Rios is a local musician who was written about in the Santa Cruz Sentinel for playing inspirational music on the trumpet at the Seacliff State Beach. I serendipitously met David Rios when he was playing the trumpet in the setting sun at the Seacliff State Beach in Aptos. I was mesmerized and drawn to the beauty and power of his trumpet. Well, we’ll get to hear his music this Sunday.
Message America, the Land that I Love: Rev. John Song
Part 6) “Things Hidden Since the Foundation of the World”
We will examine the phenomenon of scapegoating mechanism that has been hidden since the foundation of the world, and how it’s being played out in America today. How does scapegoating mechanism work? How does Satan use scapegoating mechanism to preserve its kingdom? How did Jesus on the cross put an end, once and for all, the work of Satan.
Leviticus 16:20-22
“When he has finished atoning for the holy place and the tent of meeting and the altar, he shall present the live goat. Then Aaron shall lay both his hands on the head of the live goat and confess over it all the iniquities of the Israelites, and all their transgressions, all their sins, putting them on the head of the goat and sending it away into the wilderness by means of someone designated for the task. The goat shall bear on itself all their iniquities to a barren region, and the goat shall be set free in the wilderness.
Luke 23:34
“Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do.”
Luke 10:18
And Jesus said to them, “I saw Satan fall like lightning from heaven.”
