by admin | Mar 26, 2023 | Homepage, Podcast
3/26/2023 – Dry Bones According to a recent study from the Pew Research Center, the category of non-religious/unaffiliated has become increasingly “sticky” (gaining a lot more people than it is shedding). Christianity is experiencing the opposite. In the...
by admin | Mar 19, 2023 | Homepage, Podcast
3/19/2023 – Mud, Blindness, and the Pool of Siloam Our Gospel lectionary text on this fourth Sunday of Lent is the story of Jesus healing a man born blind and sending him to the pool of Siloam. This is a powerful act with resonance beyond what we often realize. And it...
by admin | Mar 12, 2023 | Homepage, Podcast
3/12/2023 – We Are Not Nowhen In the beautiful and compelling story of Jesus encounter with the woman at the well, we realize that God does not just meet us where we are, he meets us *when* we are. What does this mean? What gift might this create for us and for the...
by admin | Mar 5, 2023 | Homepage, Podcast
3/05/2023 – Cell Phones and the Spirit Today is our annual meeting. We’ll spend a few minutes talking about how much things have changed over the last 12 years of our life together as a church. And we’ll also discuss the famous passage when Jesus tells...
by admin | Feb 26, 2023 | Homepage, Podcast
2/26/2023 – Make it Easy. Make it Spectacular. The gospel reading for this first Sunday of Lent is the story of Jesus in the wilderness where the devil tempts him to turn stones into bread, and to jump from the highest point of the temple and be caught by angels. What...
by admin | Feb 19, 2023 | Homepage, Podcast
2/19/2023 – Transfiguration Sunday This Sunday is transfiguration Sunday. What does this unique story tell us about the world we live in? And how does it relate to movies and video games? Our services are streamed every Sunday on our YouTube channel...
by admin | Feb 12, 2023 | Homepage, Podcast
2/12/2023 – Jesus’ Sermon on the Margins Today’s gospel reading from the sermon on the mount is well-known to most Christians. But being so removed from Jesus’ context — living under Roman occupation with the loss of status, freedom and autonomy —...
by admin | Feb 5, 2023 | Homepage, Podcast
2/5/2023 – Intellectual Wisdom or Incarnational Wisdom At our Youth Winter ski retreat, I was reminded that there are two kinds of knowledge: intellectual knowledge, and incarnational knowledge. As followers of Jesus, we are called to incarnational knowledge. How does...
by admin | Jan 29, 2023 | Homepage, Podcast
1/29/2023 – Micah 6:8 and Alexa Reminders What does the Lord require of you? Throughout much of early Jewish history, Israel thought the answer to this question was “sacrifices.” Throughout my faith journey, I’ve embraced several different answers to...
by admin | Jan 22, 2023 | Homepage, Podcast
1/22/2023 – Labels and the Lake Today, as we look at the story of the calling of the first disciples, and Paul’s call to the church in Corinth to have no divisions among themselves, we turn our attention to two deep wells of wisdom: Darth Vader and sports...
