by admin | Dec 12, 2021 | Advent 2021, Homepage, Podcast
12/12/2021 – Advent 2021 – Week Three – Promised Land: The Sequel Zephaniah 3:14-20; Isaiah 12:2-6; Philippians 4:4-7; Luke 3:7-18. In ancient Judaism, only non-Jewish converts into Judaism were baptized, for the Jewish people already had their own...
by admin | Dec 5, 2021 | Advent 2021, Homepage, Podcast
12/05/2021 – Advent 2021 – Week Two – Waiting Malachi 3:1-4; Luke 1:68-79; Philippians 1:3-11; Luke 3:1-6. Advent is not a time of celebration. It is a time of waiting. Our lectionary texts today point to John the baptist. What can John teach us about how...
by admin | Nov 28, 2021 | Advent 2021, Homepage, Podcast
11/28/2021 – Advent 2021 – Week One – The Days are Surely Coming Jeremiah 33:14-16; Psalm 25:1-10; 1 Thessalonians 3:9-13; Luke 21:25-36. When Jeremiah spoke words of hope and promise to the Jewish people, he was speaking from (and into) great despair and...
by admin | Nov 21, 2021 | 2021-11 Feasts, Homepage, Podcast
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,...
by admin | Nov 14, 2021 | 2021-11 Feasts, Homepage, Podcast
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....
by admin | Nov 7, 2021 | 2021-11 Feasts, Homepage, Podcast
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...
by admin | Oct 24, 2021 | 2021-10 Sin: The Series, Homepage, Podcast
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...
by admin | Oct 17, 2021 | 2021-10 Sin: The Series, Homepage, Podcast
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...
by admin | Oct 10, 2021 | 2021-10 Sin: The Series, Homepage, Podcast
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...
by admin | Oct 3, 2021 | 2021-10 Sin: The Series, Homepage, Podcast
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...
