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Feasts – Part Three – Consumption vs Community
11/21/2021 – Feasts - Part Three - Consumption vs Community Luke 14:1-24. In Jesus' day, it wasn't uncommon for gatherings (e.g., feasts) to be used as opportunities to climb the social ladder — to take the seat of honor. Not surprisingly, Jesus turns this thinking on...
Feasts – Part Two – Food Fight
11/14/2021 – Feasts - Part Two - Food Fight 2 Kings 6:8-23. Every now and then in the earliest stories of scripture when Israel was still in early-stage faith, someone gets "ahead" of their time and demonstrates the deep wisdom-faith of Jesus. Elisha the Prophet does...
Feasts – Part One – Feasts Throughout Scripture
11/07/2021 – Feasts - Part One - Feasts Throughout Scripture Genesis 18:1-15; Revelation 19:6-9. Feasts are a surprisingly central part of Scripture and the story of God's Kingdom. How can feasting lead us deeper into the life of faith and speak prophetically to a...
Sin: The Series – Part Four – Forgiveness … the great ellipsis
10/24/2021 – Sin: The Series – Part Four – Forgiveness ... the Great Ellipsis Luke 15:11-32. Too often we grant sin and brokenness the power to be an ending. The power to declare that all hope of reconciliation and restoration is gone. Forgiveness changes all of this....
Sin: The Series – Part Three – Noah and the Flood
10/17/2021 – Sin: The Series – Part Three – Noah and the Flood Genesis 6-8. The climax of The story of sin in Genesis is the story of Noah and the flood. What can seeing the story of the flood in the context of other ancient flood stories teach us about sin and the...
Sin: The Series – Part Two – The Story of Sin
10/10/2021 – Sin: The Series – Part Two – The Story of Sin Genesis 4:8-24. As the story of sin moves from Adam and Eve to Cain and Abel and to Cain's descendant Lamech, how is sin growing and changing? And what does that tell us about our world today? Our services are...
Sin: The Series – Part One – Sin is bigger than “sins”
10/03/2021 – Sin: The Series – Part One – Sin is Bigger than "sins" Genesis 2:15-17; 3:1-7, 22-24; 4:1-16. In the modern American Church it often seems like we've been given two bad options with sin. We either talk about a reductionist vision of sin that's exclusively...
The Second Greatest Commandment: Part Four – Be Good to the Baby
09/26/2021 – The Second Greatest Commandment: Part Four – Be Good to the Baby John 4:6-29. "Love your neighbor as yourself." It's the final two words of this command - 'as yourself' - that might be the most difficult. For many of us, the hardest person for us to see...
The Second Greatest Commandment: Part Three – Enemies
09/19/2021 – The Second Greatest Commandment: Part Three – Enemies Mark 12:28-31; Matthew 5:43-48. As followers of Jesus we can't talk about loving our neighbors without the even harder command to love our enemies. What enemies would Jesus have had in mind when he...
The Second Greatest Commandment: Part Two – The Cost
09/12/2021 – The Second Greatest Commandment: Part Two – The Cost Luke 4:16-30. After teaching in the synagogue at Nazareth about God's expansive view of grace and neighbor, Jesus is taken to the outskirts of town to be thrown off a cliff. It seems that "loving our...
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