Sunnyvale Presbyterian Church
November 20, 2022
“A Creating God”
Rev. Hardy H. Kim
Greetings!

The final Intersections worship service is happening this Sunday. That statement surely fills so many in our community with a swirl of heavy and potent emotions. There is grief, surely. And so many memories of good times and special connections must spring up. And perhaps we can, even now, find a sense of gratitude for what we have received through a special contemporary-style worship that started over 27 years ago.

What does it all mean for us? These changes; the ups and downs of our worship life; the coming and going of traditions that seemed so permanent? Put another way—what is God up to in this?

I hope you will come and join with our whole Sunnyvale Presbyterian Community to enjoy one final joyful, overflowing Intersections worship with us. Help us to celebrate the gifts we received through it and to give thanks to the God who granted them. Come see some folks who are coming back to help us mark this occasion. I look forward to worshipping with you.

With gratitude,

Hardy


Please join us immediately following the service for our Coffee Hour
(in-person in Trinity Court or online via Zoom).
Theme for Sunday

“Jesus’ death and resurrection is a statement of how reality works all the time and everywhere. He teaches us that there’s a different way to live with our pain, our sadness, and our suffering. We can say, ‘Woe is me,’ and feel sorry for ourselves, or we can say, ‘God is even in this.’”

Richard Rohr, “God Is with Us through It All”
Questions for Reflection
  • Think of a worship tradition that means a lot to you. It can be from SVPC or from another place. What makes this meaningful to you?

  • How did that tradition start? Do you know? Who started it and when? What did they intend for the tradition to do or mean? Is it the same now?
Isaiah 65:-17-25

For I am about to create new heavens and a new earth; the former things shall not be remembered or come to mind. But be glad and rejoice forever in what I am creating; for I am about to create Jerusalem as a joy, and its people as a delight. I will rejoice in Jerusalem, and delight in my people; no more shall the sound of weeping be heard in it, or the cry of distress. No more shall there be in it an infant that lives but a few days, or an old person who does not live out a lifetime; for one who dies at a hundred years will be considered a youth, and one who falls short of a hundred will be considered accursed. They shall build houses and inhabit them; they shall plant vineyards and eat their fruit. They shall not build and another inhabit; they shall not plant and another eat; for like the days of a tree shall the days of my people be, and my chosen shall long enjoy the work of their hands. They shall not labor in vain, or bear children for calamity; for they shall be offspring blessed by the LORD-and their descendants as well. Before they call I will answer, while they are yet speaking I will hear. The wolf and the lamb shall feed together, the lion shall eat straw like the ox; but the serpent-its food shall be dust! They shall not hurt or destroy on all my holy mountain, says the LORD.hings, whether on earth or in heaven, by making peace through the blood of his cross.
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