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Grow Deep in Prayer...Praise!
March 1, 2026
Pastor Gregg Miller
Psalm 22:22-30
A few moments ago did you know that we sang praise to God? Together we sang it together - we praised God with different voices and harmonies, but praised God collectively as God's people. That song is known as the doxology which is used in worship as a prayer, a song of praise, and a chant.
What is praise? As I have asked people this question over the past few weeks, I have received many different answers. Some people were stumped, some people had a laundry list of examples, while others met somewhere in the middle. Here is the list of responses: thanksgiving, glory, adoration, proclamation, singing, dancing, joy, and music.
As we look at part of Psalm 22 today, we hear of many different examples of praise. Additional descriptions of praise that we can add to our list are: standing in awe, turning to the Lord, bowing down and proclaiming deliverance for all. God offers deliverance not just to some, but for all!
Wow!
What an amazing promise God gives to us about God's love for God's children. We are invited to respond to God with a mouth of praise, through our bodies, our voices, and our postures. The art of praise is in our everyday life, but sometimes we do not recognize it. When we attend a concert or a sporting event, applause, shouting, and exclamation is part of the experience. Can you imagine going to a concert...
Grow Deep in Prayer: Supplication
February 22, 2026
Pastor Gregg Miller
Psalm 25:1-9
During the season of Lent we're going to tackle the series on prayer together. And hopefully for the purposes of helping us all build this mark of discipleship. Prayer is one of the marks of discipleship. Things that we can do over and over and over again - to help our lives grow deeper in new ways.
So, when I thought about this whole topic of prayer I was reminded of a movie I saw a while ago. A feel good movie that a lot of profound questions happen in it. If you just stop and think about it. The movie is 'Bruce Almighty.' I don't know if anybody has seen that...the premise of the movie involves Jim Carey as a special TV news reporter, who has been given all the powers of God for just a few days. And, through his character we are ushered into very important questions about prayer that Jim Carey's character has to face now that the job of God has been given to him for just a little while.
Questions like, 'What happens if I just simply say 'yes' to everyone's prayer request.' Well, the movie shows us total chaos, panic are created in it's wake.
Or, 'Why can't I just pray for the woman of my dreams to love me?' The consequences is I would forcing my will upon her, and violataing her right to choose.
God's Doing...Reframing!
February 15, 2026
Pastor Gregg Miller
Matthew 17:1-9, Exodus 24:12-18
We all go through life looking for things that help us define who we are; things that give us a sense of purpose and meaning; things that provide inspiration and vision to help us traverse our daily lives. As we start to focus on those things, we begin to create a framework for our lives; a framework that encapsulates those very things that we use to define ourselves. The frameworks we create for ourselves are built from our experiences and passions, things over which we have control. Our frameworks are also built from things outside of ourselves. When we take in other people's perceptions of us, we can allow both positive and negative things to become part of our framework ... things like what we wear, our race, our size, our
beliefs ... We also build frameworks for other people by defining them based on the many things we see, hear or experience with them. When the framework we define for someone aligns with their own framework, we not only see them for who they really are but can also enter into an honest relationship with them based on truth and love.
Jesus had a framework for his life, one that has never changed and lives on today. However, we have all developed our own framework for Jesus-something that has been passionately discussed and debated for the last two thousand years. Jesus invites us to align our framework of him with his true framework in order that we see him for who he is and begin to enter into a relationship with him based on truth and love. In this week's text, we experience one story of Jesus' life that helped three of his disciples change their framework of him and align themselves with Jesus' true framework. This story can also help us reframe Jesus in our own lives.
God’s Doing…Deliverance
February 8, 2026
Pastor Gregg Miller
Isaiah 9:1-7
In most worship experiences, there is a time when you turn and greet your neighbors around you. This is not a "throw away" activity; it's not some perfunctory bit of "busy work" that we do. It's actually vital for our community building, and it lets us express ourselves as the body of Christ for each other. We also know that for some this is a difficult moment. For the introverts in the room, it's a moment of panic from which there is a deep longing for deliverance. The introverts are thinking, "Oh great, the greeting: I bet I'll have to make eye contact with someone in order to do that!" On the other hand, for the extroverts in the room, this is why we wake up in the morning. Interaction with others, sometimes complete strangers, gives us enormous energy. That moment when we turn to someone we don't know and say, "Hi, I'm ____ " can be both threatening and life-giving. Speaking our name to someone else opens a door. Hearing our name can also be life-giving. God is calling our name today and wants to deliver us from whatever is holding us captive.
Names are important. Names do more than simply get someone's attention. Names identify, define, and empower people. Names also give hope. We're going to look at that together.
In the first verse of Isaiah 9, there is also a reference to the northern tribes of Zebulun and Naphtali-not names or words which are part of our daily vocabulary, for sure, and words that...
God’s Doing… Illumination!
January 25, 2026
Pastor Gregg Miller
Isaiah 42:1-9
Now in these verses God illuminates, shines light, on the person and work of the servant of God. Reading forward into this passage from the perspective of the 7 centuries before Christ, all that was known was that the servant was God's servant. Whom God upholds, whom God's chosen, in whom God's soul delights. Reading backward from our 21st century perspective we know that this servant is Jesus. The Christ. The Messiah, the Lord.
The accounts of Jesus' baptism as well as stories of his healing ministry in the gospel echo's these words in Isaiah. But, if these words from the past about God's illuminating gets locked up in a time warp and failed to enlighten our present darkness. And, even give us hope for God's future among us, then we are still in the dark, and we will remain there.
So what do these ancient words have to say to us today?
How does the message of God's illuminating presence spoken 27 hundred years ago into the darkness of a divided culture bent on perverting justice, oppressing the poor, turning away from God and looking for hope in the temporary, speak to us as 21st century followers of the way of Jesus?
These words illuminate two things, both the hearts of the servant to the people to whom these words were first spoken AND the hands of God. The servant of God in our world today.
The heart of the servant is illuminated...
God’s Doing… Renewal!
January 18, 2026
Pastor Gregg Miller
Isaiah 63:7-9
The next time the sun will rise in Barrow Alaska will be January 24th and the sun will be seen for just over an hour. How would you feel when that day came and you got to see the sun once more? I know I would probably do a little dance - and you don't want to see that. I would feel like Bilbo Baggins when they are traveling through Murkwood, and they get disoriented because they cannot see the sun. So Bilbo climbs a tree to the top and pokes his head out of the leaf canopy and he is revived by the sun. And the butterflies start flying around him, and it gave him direction and resolve to help the dwarfs know the way to go toward the Lonely Mountain. I don't know about you but I need the sun for my health. As we are entering the fourth week of winter, I take advantage of when the sun is out.
If you feel like me, then these words from Isaiah 60, particularly in verse 1, "Arise, shine; for your light has come, and the glory of the Lord has risen upon you!" were spoken to the people of Israel at one of the darkest moments in their history-and would provide hope beyond hope, and renewal for a whole nation of refugees.
Here's a bit of historical context. The passage from Isaiah 60:1-6 comes from Isaiah's vision concerning the exaltation of the city of Jerusalem. These six verses open what some scholars consider to be the core of the third section of this great book in the Old Testament. "At the heart of this miscellaneous collection of oracles directed toward Judah, most likely written in Jerusalem after the exiles had returned to a war-ravaged...