We invite you to come to our 11am service, as you are, wherever you may find yourself on your journey of faith. All are welcome. No condemnation here. Our worship style is contemporary and features lively contemporary music. The sermons are informal and relevant, addressing the issues you face in your everyday life. There is also opportunity to offer prayers for personal concerns in your life, our community and our world. Dress is California casual.
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Perhaps growing up you heard your mother guilt you into taking a shower or cleaning your messy room by declaring with biblical authority: “Cleanliness is next to Godliness.” News to all the parents out there…that is not in the Bible!
However the scriptures mention “clean” quite a few times. In the Jewish laws, to be unclean or impure separated one from God. In Leviticus “clean” is mentioned in 44 verses. One of the main jobs of the priests was to check to see if the people performed the rituals of purification, and then declare them clean (or not!). In the Beatitude for Sunday we have Jesus saying: Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God. (The same Greek word for “pure” is also used to mean “clean.”) I never knew how to feel about this beatitude because I never understood what “pure” in heart meant, and I was sure I’d only see God after I was dead.
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WHPC inspires me with its unapologetic diversity - lesbian couples and their kids, gay couples and their kids, and straight families, too, along with single straight people and single gay people and transgendered people, not to mention people of every color and age – ALL children of God worshipping together. Every Sunday, I get a glimpse of a God [...]
Yvonne: The moment I walked through the doors of WHPC, I felt a sense of peace and began to understand what it meant to have family and faith. It is the only place where I feel that being “myself” is accepted and not just tolerated. It has become my sanctuary.
Elizabeth: WHPC has become my spiritual [...]
Worship Time : Every Sunday at 11:00am
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