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Scripture read in Worship February 24, 2019, at Church of the Covenant, Arlington, Virginia

Sun, Feb 24, 2019

Passage: 1 Corinthians 15:35-50 & Luke 6:27-38

Series: Cultivating an Inner Garden

Duration: 6 mins 49 secs

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Sermon: "A Flourishing Garden"

Sun, Feb 17, 2019

by Rev. J. Beth Goss

Series: Cultivating an Inner Garden

Duration: 10 mins 37 secs

Big Idea: The purpose of the Christian life is to know God and know ourselves. The knowledge of God and the knowledge of oneself are for the purpose of a flourishing life—for the sake of ourselves and others. Overview of enneagram types 2, 3 & 4.

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Scripture read in Worship February 17, 2019, at Church of the Covenant, Arlington, Virginia

Sun, Feb 17, 2019

Passage: Jeremiah 17:7-8 & 1 Corinthians 15:20

Series: Cultivating an Inner Garden

Duration: 1 mins 14 secs

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Sermon: "A Pastor's Garden"

Sun, Feb 10, 2019

by Rev. J. Beth Goss

Series: Cultivating an Inner Garden

Duration: 16 mins 59 secs

Big Idea: Paul had the audacity to claim his own interior soul work would benefit the churches with which he was in relationship. Pastor Beth will show how the tool of the Enneagram has helped her to work on her own interior garden, for the benefit of this church. Pastor Beth’s Enneagram type is 5.

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Scripture read in Worship February 10, 2019, at Church of the Covenant, Arlington, Virginia

Sun, Feb 10, 2019

Passage: 1 Corinthians 15:1-11

Series: Cultivating an Inner Garden

Duration: 2 mins 26 secs

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Sermon: "Weeding with Compassion"

Sun, Feb 03, 2019

by Rev. J. Beth Goss

Series: Cultivating an Inner Garden

Duration: 19 mins 29 secs

Big Idea: Understanding our own motivations and personality types is not for the purpose of destroying ourselves, but becoming aware of the loving way to look at ourselves with compassion, as God does. Special insights, not coupled with love, don’t help us or anyone else to grow spiritually. Enneagram types 8, 9 &1.

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Scripture read in Worship February 3, 2019, Scout Sunday, at Church of the Covenant, Arlington, Virginia

Sun, Feb 03, 2019

Passage: 1 Corinthians 13:1-13

Series: Cultivating an Inner Garden

Duration: 3 mins 10 secs

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Sermon: "Cultivating the Inner Garden"

Sun, Jan 27, 2019

by Rev. J. Beth Goss

Series: Cultivating an Inner Garden

Duration: 19 mins 40 secs

Big Idea: Renewed spiritual life depends upon seeing ourselves and others as part of the same living ecosystem. No plant can survive alone. At the same time, no one being can be all kinds of being or personality in and of herself. The complex of Enneagram personalities can be a way to understand our own foibles, fears and false selves in order to weed out what needs to be uprooted so that God can work the whole garden. Overview of the whole Enneagram and types ______.

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Scripture read in Worshp January 27, 2019 at Church of the Covenant, Arlington, Virginia

Sun, Jan 27, 2019

Passage: 1 Corinthians 12:1-4 & 1 Corinthians 12:12-31

Series: Cultivating an Inner Garden

Duration: 3 mins

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Sermon: "Relentless Intercession"

Sun, Jan 20, 2019

by Rev. Katherine Francis

Duration: 26 mins 19 secs

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Scripture read in Worship January 20, 2019 at Church of the Covenant, Arlington, Virginia

Sun, Jan 20, 2019

Passage: Isaiah 62:1-5 & Matthew 7:7-11

Duration: 2 mins 40 secs

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Sermon: "Tradition, Re-imagined"

Sun, Jan 06, 2019

by Rev. J. Beth Goss

Series: Calm and Bright

Duration: 19 mins 31 secs

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Scripture read in Worship December 30, 2018 at Church of Covenant, Arlington, Virginia

Sun, Dec 30, 2018

Passage: Revelation 21:1-6

Series: Calm and Bright

Duration: 4 mins 18 secs

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Sermon: "Let Us Sing - Hope!"

Sun, Dec 23, 2018

by Rev. J. Beth Goss

Series: Calm and Bright

Duration: 23 mins 20 secs

Big Idea: The last verse of the hymn invites us to lift our voices to SING. We are a people who HOPE, and so we can sing. This action was more radical for the people of Jesus' time because it required courage to resist the powers of empire that threatened "the least of these" that Jesus came to serve. Wherever there is injustice in this world, people who SING to Jesus as the real king are defying hopelessness.

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Scripture read in Worship December 23, 2018 at Church of the Covenant, Arlington, Virginia

Sun, Dec 23, 2018

Passage: Isaiah 9:6 & Matthew 2:1-12

Series: Calm and Bright

Duration: 3 mins 33 secs

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Scripture read in Worship December 16, 2018 at Church of the Covenant, Arlington, Virginia

Sun, Dec 16, 2018

Passage: John 1:1-17

Series: Calm and Bright

Duration: 1 mins 9 secs

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Sermon: "Glories Stream - Joy!"

Sun, Dec 09, 2018

by Rev. J. Beth Goss

Series: Calm and Bright

Duration: 13 mins 31 secs

Big Idea: The shepherds got quite a wake-up call that night when the sky lit up "like a Christmas tree" (so to speak). Awe at the transformative glory of what God can do in our lives is the focus this week. Glories are streaming every day if we only have eyes to see. How would our lives be renewed if we saw the world and our lives through the lens of wonder?

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Scripture read in Worship December 9, 2018 at Church of the Covenant, Arlington, Virginia

Sun, Dec 09, 2018

Passage: Psalm 86:9-11 & Luke 2:8-20

Series: Calm and Bright

Duration: 1 mins 31 secs

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Sermon: "Sleep in Heavenly Peace"

Sun, Dec 02, 2018

by Rev. J. Beth Goss

Series: Calm and Bright

Duration: 10 mins 7 secs

Big Idea: One of the most famous stories about this beloved hymn took place in World War One, in 1914. British and German soldiers on the front lines called a truce on Christmas Day. So close were the encampments from one another, they could hear each other in the peaceful quiet of the truce singing "Silent Night," each in their own language. This prompted the soldiers to come out and meet on the battlefields, without weapons, and they spent the day playing soccer and exchanging small gifts -

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Scripture read in Worship December 2, 2018 at Church of the Covenant, Arlington, Virginia

Sun, Dec 02, 2018

Passage: Isaiah 2:1-4:9 & 2 Samuel

Series: Calm and Bright

Duration: 2 mins 26 secs

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