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...
by admin | Sep 26, 2021 | 2021-09 The Second Greatest Commandment, Homepage, Podcast
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...
by admin | Sep 19, 2021 | 2021-09 The Second Greatest Commandment, Homepage, Podcast
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...
by admin | Sep 12, 2021 | 2021-09 The Second Greatest Commandment, Homepage, Podcast
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...
by admin | Sep 5, 2021 | 2021-09 The Second Greatest Commandment, Homepage, Podcast
09/05/2021 – The Second Greatest Commandment: Part One – Neighbor Mark 12:28-34. When the teacher of the law asked which commandment was most important, Jesus gave a two-part answer. This month we focus on the second part. What does it mean for us to love our...