For some, faith transition feels like stepping through a doorway — sudden, decisive, and clear. For many others, it is more like a long journey across changing terrain, where the air slowly shifts, familiar landmarks disappear, and we adapt to new spiritual climates. This sermon explores belief deconstruction and reconstruction not as loss or failure, but as movement — an ongoing, embodied search for truth and meaning. What if belief is not something we own, but something we practice as we travel?

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Welcome
Greeting and Announcements
Territorial Acknowledgement
Chalice Lighting and Sung Affirmation
Opening Words
Opening Hymn:  #168, One More Step
Time for All Ages:  What the Road Said, by Cleo Wade
Reeb Benediction
Offertory
Candles of Joys and Sorrows
Testimonial:  Mark Willis
Reading:  The Journey, by Mary Oliver
Gift of Music:  The Road Home, by Stephen Paulus
Homily
Closing Hymn:  #298, Wake, Now, My Senses
Closing Reading:  From Beyond Belief, by Craig Pennell
Musical Benediction:  There Is a Love
Embodying the Flame
Spoken Benediction

Topics: Journey