Worship at Fanwood Church
Our worship focuses on the challenges of contemporary life as we seek to know and follow God. We express and respect a diversity of approaches to belief. Most are seekers, confident in our beliefs but open to new revelations and deeper levels of spirituality.
Our sermons honor the best of Biblical scholarship along with the compassion of Jesus. In prayer and sacrament, we find the Risen Christ present. See previous sermon series below:
FANNING OUT
In June 2026, we're exploring what it means to move with the Spirit of God. The word for Spirit in Scripture - ruach in Hebrew, pneuma in Greek - also means breath and wind. A fan doesn't create wind; it sets in motion what's already there. Over four Sundays, we'll look at how our own ministries are the ways Fanwood Church fans the Spirit out into the world.
Our 2025 summer worship series thinks about the theology of beloved musicals including Wicked, Brigadoon, Les Miserables, Rent, Into the Woods, All Shook Up, The Sound of Music, In the Heights, Fiddler on the Roof, The Phantom of the Opera, and Come From Away.
In the Acts of the Apostles, it wasn’t only the apostles’ miracles or the sacrifices that inspired awe – it was the regular, everyday act of building community that left others awestruck. Drawing on recent scholarship on the experience of awe, this series in September 2025 explores how we can inspire awe in other through the work of the church.
SERMON ON THE MOUNT
Our short sermon series in February 2026 will consider Jesus' first major public sermon, the Sermon the Mount from the Gospel of Matthew. We'll look at the opening of the Beatitudes, the closing on worry, and the whole sermon itself in this series.
TELL ME SOMETHING GOOD
Our series for the season of Lent 2026 draws from our friends at A Sanctified Art. Inspired by many of Jesus' core teachings, like radical welcome, love for neighbor, and care for the vulnerable, this series invites us to be grounded in the subversive and joyful good news of the gospel.
