Hildegard of Bingen

Sunday, July 13, 2025

Scriptures:

• Sermon Summary

  Summary: Bobbi explores the impressive medieval abbess, Hildegard of Bingen. She examines Hildegard’s spiritual visions by looking closely at her literary classic, Scivias.

  Hildegard of Bingen

  But What if Eve…

  Viriditas

  The Sapphire Man

• Discussion Guide

  Community is shaped by the conversations we share. These questions and reflections are a tool to help you meaningfully engage with the themes of this week's teaching.

  Summer Discussion Guide 2025

  If your group is meeting this summer and wants to talk about the sermons, here are a few questions that you could use to engage with our teaching.

  • What specific part of the message resonated with you the most? Why do you think that particular part, or idea, or story caught your attention?

  • Did the sermon speak into a particular struggle or question in your life or your faith journey right now?

  • What did the message challenge or encourage you personally? And what do you think the application could be for our church community? Was there anything that could strengthen or stretch us as a church?

  How did the exposition of the scriptures used in the sermon provide you with a new perspective of deeper understanding?

  It is good to remember that the conversation experience in the group is shaped by the personal stories of those who participate in it and how willing the people are to be open and vulnerable in the group.
  
  So if you’re leading the discussion, feel free to model and encourage person-centred and story-centred sharing by reflecting on how some parts of the sermon resonate with you personally.

  Additionally, what contributes to a more authentic group discussion is when people can share not about the abstract and theoretical applications, but one or two practical things they are taking away from either the sermon or the discussion.

  So, you can end your time together with this question:

  • What is one thing you are taking away from either the sermon or the discussion we’ve just had?

• Service Songs & Prayers

  CALL TO WORSHIP Psalm 57

  MUSIC Curated by Kevin Borst
  Brooke Ligertwood - Banner
  Phil Wickham - Living Hope
  Brooke Ligertwood - King of Kings
  Cody Carnes - Simple Kingdom
  
  APOSTLES’ CREED
  I believe in God the Father Almighty
  Maker of heaven and earth.

  And in Jesus Christ, his only Son, our Lord;
  Who was conceived by the Holy Ghost,
  Born of the Virgin Mary,
  Suffered under Pontius Pilate,
  Was crucified, dead, and buried;
  He descended into Hell;

  The third day he rose again from the dead; He ascended into heaven,
  and is seated at the right hand of God the Father Almighty
  From there he will come to judge the living and the dead.

  I believe in the Holy Ghost;
  the holy Christian Church;
  the communion of saints;
  the forgiveness of sins;
  the resurrection of the body;
  and the life everlasting.

  Amen.
  
  SERIES BUMPER
  Reads A Classic