Welcome to Lenten mid-week prayer! This brief service of Scripture, prayer, silence, and song is a reflective way to ground your heart in the loving presence of Christ in the middle of the week. You can use the buttons below to get a copy of the bulletin and to go directly to our YouTube channel for the live stream at 7:00pm.
We will continue these services through the month of March. If you are able to come on-site, you are welcome to join us for soup supper at 6:30!
We are so glad you’re joining Reformation for online worship! We hope that this time of prayer, song, and hearing the Word of God will help you to go deeper in your relationship with Jesus and grow in your love and service. Please use the buttons above to download a bulletin to help you follow along with the service and a daily devotional guide for the coming week with reflections on this Sunday’s Scripture readings, a schedule of psalms to read and pray through, and guides for your prayers of intercession.
We get to overhear a long conversation between Jesus and the woman at the well today. At first, she thinks they’re talking about the mundane chore of drawing water. But as the reading from John 4:5-42 continues, we hear how Jesus opens up the woman’s eyes and heart to the living water and the new future he offers her and everyone he invites to follow him. Pastor Paige explores this rich story in today’s sermon. She asks worshipers to pause in the middle of Lent, consider what their souls are thirsty for, and turn to Jesus to find the true satisfaction, abundant life, and eternal life he alone can give.
This is a recording of our 8:30 service. After the service, we invite you to fill out an online response card here. Also, if you are able, we invite you to partner with us by financially supporting Reformation here. Your generosity allows us to bring the hope of Jesus to Milford and beyond. Thank you!
Welcome to Lenten mid-week prayer! This brief service of Scripture, prayer, silence, and song is a reflective way to ground your heart in the loving presence of Christ in the middle of the week. You can use the buttons below to get a copy of the bulletin and to go directly to our YouTube channel for the live stream at 7:00pm.
We will continue these services through the month of March. If you are able to come on-site, you are welcome to join us for soup supper at 6:30!
We are so glad you’re joining Reformation for online worship! We hope that this time of prayer, song, and hearing the Word of God will help you to go deeper in your relationship with Jesus and grow in your love and service. Please use the buttons above to download a bulletin to help you follow along with the service and a daily devotional guide for the coming week with reflections on this Sunday’s Scripture readings, a schedule of psalms to read and pray through, and guides for your prayers of intercession.
In John 3:1-17, Jesus teaches about being "born again" or "born from above." We often get caught up in wondering what being "born again" means, but we lose sight of the fact that after we are born, the point is to grow up! In this sermon, Pastor Eric uses the story of a failed railway project in Spain to call us to consider the ways we might be resisting the new life Jesus wants to give us. It is a challenging call, but it is also the summons into the life God desires to give us.
This is a recording of our 8:30 service. After the service, we invite you to fill out an online response card here. Also, if you are able, we invite you to partner with us by financially supporting Reformation here. Your generosity allows us to bring the hope of Jesus to Milford and beyond. Thank you!
Welcome to Lenten mid-week prayer! This brief service of Scripture, prayer, silence, and song is a reflective way to ground your heart in the loving presence of Christ in the middle of the week. You can use the buttons below to get a copy of the bulletin and to go directly to our YouTube channel for the live stream at 7:00pm.
We will continue these services through the month of March. If you are able to come on-site, you are welcome to join us for soup supper at 6:30!
We are so glad you’re joining Reformation for online worship! We hope that this time of prayer, song, and hearing the Word of God will help you to go deeper in your relationship with Jesus and grow in your love and service. Please use the buttons above to download a bulletin to help you follow along with the service and a daily devotional guide for the coming week with reflections on this Sunday’s Scripture readings, a schedule of psalms to read and pray through, and guides for your prayers of intercession.
Why are we here? Genesis 2:15 gives us an answer: we are meant to be gardeners. Now, that's a metaphor. Gardeners take the world around them and work to make it more productive or beautiful. We were created to help the creation around us -including other people!- thrive and grow in glory. But our sin has disconnected us from this high and holy calling. In Matthew 4:1-11, we hear the story of how Jesus overcomes temptation to restore us to our deepest meaning. Pastor Eric helps us see that through a pilgrimage in the desert, we can rediscover the purpose of the Garden.
This is a recording of our 8:30 service. After the service, we invite you to fill out an online response card here. Also, if you are able, we invite you to partner with us by financially supporting Reformation here. Your generosity allows us to bring the hope of Jesus to Milford and beyond. Thank you!
Ash Wednesday begins the season of Lent, the 40 days (not counting Sundays) of preparation leading up to Easter. It is a time of spiritual discipline, repentance, and focusing ever more intently on the depths of the love of Jesus Christ for us and for the whole world. We will be live streaming our 7:30pm service on Ash Wednesday this year. You can use the buttons above to download a bulletin or take you to our YouTube channel. The live stream will be there, and will remain online if you with to access it later. (There may be a short pause between the end of the live service and when the YouTube servers make it available after the fact.)
After the service, we invite you to fill out an online response card here. Also, if you are able, we invite you to partner with us by financially supporting Reformation here. Your generosity allows us to bring the hope of Jesus to Milford and beyond. Thank you!
We are so glad you’re joining Reformation for online worship! We hope that this time of prayer, song, and hearing the Word of God will help you to go deeper in your relationship with Jesus and grow in your love and service. Please use the buttons above to download a bulletin to help you follow along with the service and a daily devotional guide for the coming week with reflections on this Sunday’s Scripture readings, a schedule of psalms to read and pray through, and guides for your prayers of intercession.
When we’re used to rushing around and always looking ahead to the next event on our calendars, it can be challenging to pause and soak up the good things that are happening in our lives. In worship today, we are celebrating the Transfiguration of Our Lord. This was the moment on a mountaintop when Jesus suddenly started shining like the sun. God spoke from a cloud, surprising the disciples who witnessed it so much that they fell down in fear. In this sermon on the story of Jesus’ Transfiguration from Matthew 17:1-9, Pastor Paige encourages listeners to pause, celebrate, and truly take in Jesus’ glory. By letting Jesus’ light shine on us, we receive fuel for the journey of Lent which is about to begin.
This is a recording of our 8:30 service. After the service, we invite you to fill out an online response card here. Also, if you are able, we invite you to partner with us by financially supporting Reformation here. Your generosity allows us to bring the hope of Jesus to Milford and beyond. Thank you!
We are so glad you’re joining Reformation for online worship! We hope that this time of prayer, song, and hearing the Word of God will help you to go deeper in your relationship with Jesus and grow in your love and service. Please use the buttons above to download a bulletin to help you follow along with the service and a daily devotional guide for the coming week with reflections on this Sunday’s Scripture readings, a schedule of psalms to read and pray through, and guides for your prayers of intercession.
In Matthew 5:21-37, Jesus takes the words of the Old Testament Law and radically sharpens them. Instead of outward obedience, he demands inner purity. But what if this is beyond our power? In this sermon, Pastor Eric uses the image of a coach vs. a surgeon to understand how these words of Jesus work in our souls, and how we can find freedom and joy in the love of Christ.
This is a recording of our 8:30 service. After the service, we invite you to fill out an online response card here. Also, if you are able, we invite you to partner with us by financially supporting Reformation here. Your generosity allows us to bring the hope of Jesus to Milford and beyond. Thank you!
We are so glad you’re joining Reformation for online worship! We hope that this time of prayer, song, and hearing the Word of God will help you to go deeper in your relationship with Jesus and grow in your love and service. Please use the buttons above to download a bulletin to help you follow along with the service and a daily devotional guide for the coming week with reflections on this Sunday’s Scripture readings, a schedule of psalms to read and pray through, and guides for your prayers of intercession.
Sometimes in worship, we hear “church words” that have been nearly forgotten in our modern world. Taking a word from all of today’s lessons, and particularly from the gospel reading from Matthew 5:13-20, Pastor Paige invites listeners to learn about the word, “righteousness.” What does it mean that we are clothed in Jesus’ righteousness? Do we need to worry about our measure of righteousness? What does righteousness have to do with how we live each day as followers of Jesus? In this sermon, we consider these questions so we can learn how to obey God’s call to practice righteousness and shine the light of Christ as we serve our neighbors.
This is a recording of our 8:30 service. After the service, we invite you to fill out an online response card here. Also, if you are able, we invite you to partner with us by financially supporting Reformation here. Your generosity allows us to bring the hope of Jesus to Milford and beyond. Thank you!
We are so glad you’re joining Reformation for online worship! We hope that this time of prayer, song, and hearing the Word of God will help you to go deeper in your relationship with Jesus and grow in your love and service. Please use the buttons above to download a bulletin to help you follow along with the service and a daily devotional guide for the coming week with reflections on this Sunday’s Scripture readings, a schedule of psalms to read and pray through, and guides for your prayers of intercession.
In today's readings (Micah 6:1-8, 1Corinthians 1:18-31, and Matthew 5:1-12, we hear God's call to his people to live in holiness and service. It's a call that can feel impossible. But what if it wasn't up to us? What if God does want to transform us, and change the world through us, but if it wasn't our strength or wisdom that would get it done? In this sermon, Pastor Eric lifts up the grace of Jesus in the Cross as the source of all spiritual good and power. When we trust in him, and not our own efforts, then God's saving purposes will get done.
This is a recording of our 8:30 service. After the service, we invite you to fill out an online response card here. Also, if you are able, we invite you to partner with us by financially supporting Reformation here. Your generosity allows us to bring the hope of Jesus to Milford and beyond. Thank you!
We are so glad you’re joining Reformation for online worship! We hope that this time of prayer, song, and hearing the Word of God will help you to go deeper in your relationship with Jesus and grow in your love and service. Please use the buttons above to download a bulletin to help you follow along with the service and a daily devotional guide for the coming week with reflections on this Sunday’s Scripture readings, a schedule of psalms to read and pray through, and guides for your prayers of intercession.
As the season of Epiphany continues, we hear the good news that Jesus brings light to scatter the darkness. Today’s gospel reading from Matthew 4:12-23 invites us to follow Jesus as his disciples. In this sermon, Pastor Paige points out that it isn’t always easy to do that, given the challenges of sin and the unexpected ways that darkness tries to sneak into our lives. By becoming human for us and our salvation, Jesus knows what that feels like. In his death on the cross and his resurrection, the light and power of God overcame the darkness once and for all, for us and for the whole world. Now we get to shine the light of our risen Lord everywhere we go.
[We had to cut the second reading, and the first reading & psalm might be hard to hear clearly, as the microphone batteries were dying.]
This is a recording of our 8:30 service. After the service, we invite you to fill out an online response card here. Also, if you are able, we invite you to partner with us by financially supporting Reformation here. Your generosity allows us to bring the hope of Jesus to Milford and beyond. Thank you!
We are so glad you’re joining Reformation for online worship! We hope that this time of prayer, song, and hearing the Word of God will help you to go deeper in your relationship with Jesus and grow in your love and service. Please use the buttons above to download a bulletin to help you follow along with the service and a daily devotional guide for the coming week with reflections on this Sunday’s Scripture readings, a schedule of psalms to read and pray through, and guides for your prayers of intercession.
A lot of Christians, especially those invested in their churches, are vulnerable to frustration and disappointment now. Trends of lower participation, and of more people identifying as non-Christian, had been going on for decades, and the pandemic & lockdowns only accelerated them. The temptation is to say that "the world should change so they can come to us." But what if the Lord wants us to change so that we go to the world? What if caring about the well-being of the institution, and those already in it, is too small a hope? In this sermon from Isaiah 49:1-7, Pastor Eric uses the image of the Dead Sea to lift up God's call to mission for the sake of others.
This is a recording of our 8:30 service. After the service, we invite you to fill out an online response card here. Also, if you are able, we invite you to partner with us by financially supporting Reformation here. Your generosity allows us to bring the hope of Jesus to Milford and beyond. Thank you!
We are so glad you’re joining Reformation for online worship! We hope that this time of prayer, song, and hearing the Word of God will help you to go deeper in your relationship with Jesus and grow in your love and service. The button above will allow you to download a bulletin to help follow along in the service. Our daily devotions guide is still “on hiatus,” but will come back soon. On January 8, we are celebrating both the festival of The Epiphany as well as The Baptism of Our Lord.
So much of what people do boils down to pursuing feelings of worthiness, belonging, and acceptance. And no matter how hard we work for it, we are often left disappointed or disillusioned. But the story of Jesus' baptism offers us a different way. What if, instead of spending our lives working for acceptance, we could live our lives FROM the gift of acceptance by God? In this sermon from Matthew 3:13-17, Pastor Eric invites us to see how Christ's baptism reveals what happens in our own baptisms, and how that can empower us to live transformed, healed, and holy lives.
This is a recording of our 8:30 service. After the service, we invite you to fill out an online response card here. Also, if you are able, we invite you to partner with us by financially supporting Reformation here. Your generosity allows us to bring the hope of Jesus to Milford and beyond. Thank you!
Merry Christmas! We continue to observe the 12 Days of Christmas with a service of Lessons, Carols, and Holy Communion today. What better way to start a new year than by singing praise to the Christ Child with your church family?
The two buttons above will allow you to download a bulletin to help follow along in the service and take you to our YouTube channel. The recording of the live stream will remain available on YouTube after the service is over (although it may “vanish” briefly once the live stream ends and YouTube processes it), but we will not be re-posting it to Facebook or the web site.
We pray that this service will be a blessing to you. May the entire 12 Days of Christmas, and all of 2023, be filled with the light of Christ!
Merry Christmas! Our Christmas Day worship includes a triple baptism (a father and two daughters)! The two buttons above will allow you to download a bulletin to help follow along in the service (including the baptismal booklet at the end of the bulletin) and take you to our YouTube channel. The recording of the live stream will remain available on YouTube after the service is over (although it may “vanish” briefly once the live stream ends and YouTube processes it), but we will not be re-posting it to Facebook or the web site.
We pray that this service will be a blessing to you. May the entire 12 Days of Christmas be filled with the light of Christ!
Merry Christmas! This year, we are live streaming our 4:00pm Christmas Eve service, which includes musical offerings by several of Reformation’s younger musicians. The two buttons above will allow you to download a bulletin to help follow along in the service and take you to our YouTube channel. The recording of the live stream will remain available on YouTube after the service is over (although it may “vanish” briefly once the live stream ends and YouTube processes it), but we will not be re-posting it to Facebook or the web site.
We pray that this service will be a blessing to you. May the entire 12 Days of Christmas be filled with the light of Christ!
We are so glad you’re joining Reformation for online worship! We hope that this time of prayer, song, and hearing the Word of God will help you to go deeper in your relationship with Jesus and grow in your love and service. Please use the buttons above to download a bulletin to help you follow along with the service and a daily devotional guide for the coming week with reflections on this Sunday’s Scripture readings, a schedule of psalms to read and pray through, and guides for your prayers of intercession.
Christmas is almost here! It’s the Fourth Sunday of Advent, and the candles on the Advent wreath are at their brightest. In today’s Gospel reading, Matthew 1:18-25, we hear Matthew’s version of Jesus’ birth. We learn about Joseph and his surprising story. He wanted to quietly leave his fiancé, Mary, who became pregnant before they were married. But an angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream and convinced him to stay. Pastor Paige asks listeners to imagine how challenging it would have been for Joseph to abandon his plan to quietly slip away from a difficult situation, and to stay as the angel commanded him. Joseph’s obedience is a wonderful model for how we are called to listen for God and to allow God’s voice to shape our lives. When we lean into our faith and follow God’s call, even when his instructions are incomplete, God will lead us to joys we couldn't discover on our own: the joys of faith, hope, and love at Christmastime and always.
This is a recording of our 8:30 service. After the service, we invite you to fill out an online response card here. Also, if you are able, we invite you to partner with us by financially supporting Reformation here. Your generosity allows us to bring the hope of Jesus to Milford and beyond. Thank you!
Welcome to Reformation’s first Blue Christmas worship service, intended to provide peace, solace, and strength to those who find “the holiday season” to be difficult for any reason. You can download a copy of the bulletin at the button above, and the button below will take you to our YouTube channel where the service will stream on December 14 at 7:30pm, and then will remain as a recorded service. At Christmas, we do not deny the reality of the shadows of this world, but we lift up the promise that Christ’s light shines even in the darkness. May the presence of the Christ child bring you comfort and, yes, joy, even in life’s darkest seasons.
We are so glad you’re joining Reformation for online worship! We hope that this time of prayer, song, and hearing the Word of God will help you to go deeper in your relationship with Jesus and grow in your love and service. Please use the buttons above to download a bulletin to help you follow along with the service and a daily devotional guide for the coming week with reflections on this Sunday’s Scripture readings, a schedule of psalms to read and pray through, and guides for your prayers of intercession.
John the Baptist was stuck in jail. How can this be? Isn't he a faithful servant of the Lord? Jesus gives John words of encouragement, but also a challenge. In this sermon from Matthew 11:2-11, Pastor Eric lifts up the hope of Christ's power even in our trials, reminding us that Jesus does not lead us around struggles, but through them. There is also a word of challenge, though: the kingdom of Jesus is cross-shaped. It comes not just for our blessing, but so that we can be made into the kind of community that can bless others. This is not easy, but it is the path of life.
This is a recording of our 8:30 service. After the service, we invite you to fill out an online response card here. Also, if you are able, we invite you to partner with us by financially supporting Reformation here. Your generosity allows us to bring the hope of Jesus to Milford and beyond. Thank you!
Invite our neighbors as Jesus has invited us; Engage in a community of graceful discipleship; Equip our members for growth in faith and ministry; Embody the love of Jesus for the world around us.