Calvary United Methodist Church - Philadelphia

05/22/2026

Join us this Sunday as we celebrate the Spirit-filled promise of : allmeansall.org/worship.

Sermon: "Mutual Goodness"

"To each person is given the manifestation of the Spirit for mutual good." - 1 Corinthians 12:7

05/19/2026

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05/12/2026

Sunday's sermon (PDF & audio): allmeansall.org/sermons

"In Whose Image?" (Pastor Tim Emmett-Rardin)

"For 'In God we live and move and have our being'; ..." - Acts 17:28a

EXCERPT: Believing, knowing, remembering that we and each and every other are created in the image of God guards against idolatry, guards against love that is out of balance, guards against the temptation to create God in our own image. Again from Paul: “Since we are the offspring of God, we ought not to think that the divine is like gold, or silver, or stone, an image formed by the craft and creativity of people.”

We are made in God’s image, not the other way around. Which means that we are temples in which God is found, and through which God is made known; in and through which Love is found and made known.

Remember that Paul, in his letter to the Corinthian church, also wrote, “Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, which you have from God, and that you are not your own?” (1 Cor. 6:19)

Friends, we belong to God, and so we belong to each other—as those lovingly created in the very image of the God who is Love itself. Never forget!

Faithfulness to that divine truth, embracing and internalizing the truth that we are all made as reflections of divine Love makes love not only possible, but more likely. Love of God. And love of neighbor, as with love of ourselves. All in life-giving balance.

05/08/2026

All are welcome for worship on Mother's Day! allmeansall.org/worship

"In Whose Image?"

"For 'In God we live and move and have our being'; ..." - Acts 17:28a

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05/07/2026

Join us today at 4 pm, 4923 Chester Avenue, to stand up for affordable housing!

https://www.mobilize.us/cpda/event/937285/



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05/06/2026

Join us at Dahlak tonight, 7 pm, for Spirituality on Tap: allmeansall.org/spirituality-on-tap!

1st WEDNESDAYS, 7-8ish pm (except July & August) Dahlak / 4708 Baltimore Ave ​ Join us the first Wednesday of every month for Spirituality on Tap, an informal gathering to discuss - not debate -...

05/05/2026

Sunday's sermon (PDF & audio): allmeansall.org/sermons

"One Way?"
1 Peter 2:2-10 / John 14:1-7
Pastor Tim Emmett-Rardin

EXCERPT: “Rabbi, we do not know where you are going. How would we be able to know the way?" How can we know the way?

You already know the way, Jesus insists, because you know me. And if you know me, you know God.

Thomas is pleading for a map, for details, for certainty, but Jesus reminds them that they don’t need a map. The journey of faith, the journey of life, is always uncertain, but you know me! You know who I am and so you know who God is—and because God is Love, the only WAY to God IS love. ...

Why, in a tradition that seeks to follow Jesus, are we so hell-bent on trying to EXCLUDE rather than EXPAND?! God, who is Love itself, demands ever expansive and inclusive, not ever restrictive, conditional, love. ... To suggest that Jesus is the only way to God, the only way to salvation, fundamentally flies in the face of who God is. Or at least who we believe God is. If we believe that God is Love itself, and if we believe that God’s love is UNconditional, why in God’s name would and do we in the Christian Church then condition that love on belief in Jesus? ...

Jesus, though unique and exceptional in many ways, isn’t the ONLY way to God, to abundant life, because the ONLY way is Love. And let’s be clear: Jesus, Christianity, the Christian Church, DOES NOT have a corner on the love market.

God does. NO ONE comes to the Creator, no one comes to the house with endless rooms, no one comes to salvation, no one comes to truth, no one comes to life, EXCEPT by and through love. Period.

05/04/2026

Today is the last day for PA registration to in the upcoming Primary Election (May 19)!

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05/04/2026

Hope you can join us for worship tomorrow (with Communion), followed by our "2nd Sunday" Potluck (a week early this month): allmeansall.org/worship.

"One Way?"

"Thomas said, 'Rabbi, we do not know where you are going. How would we be able to know the way?'" - John 14:5

05/01/2026

Join us at City Hall today, 4 pm!

https://powerinterfaith.org/event/workers-over-billionaires-may-day-rally/

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