THE CRUCIFIED AND RESURRECTION LIFE
No one gets out of this life unscathed. It’s a universal truth. We all experience pain, grief, despair, or darkness of some sort. Even...
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May 91 min
WHY JESUS?
Last Sunday the leadership team discussed their responses to “Why Jesus?” Or, “Why be Christian?” These were our responses. Lots of...
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May 21 min
FIVE DAYS OF JERUSALEM
Jesus arrived in the most important place to every Israelite – Jerusalem. It literally means “City of Peace” and it was where the people...
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Apr 251 min
JOURNEY TO JERUSALEM
Geography matters in the gospels. Over half of the gospel of Luke follows Jesus’ journey from Galilee in the north, uphill to Jerusalem...
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Apr 181 min
PARABLES FROM THE UNDERSIDE
Parables were Jesus’ preferred teaching strategy. There are 49 of these stories with meaning in the gospels and 16 of them are only in...
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Apr 111 min
DO YOU SEE THIS WOMAN?
Simon the Pharisee sees a woman anointing Jesus’ feet. She’s a sinner, a woman, and she does not belong at his dinner party. Simon just...
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Apr 41 min
GOD LIKES TO SHOW OFF: LIFTING UP THE LOWLY
God does it over and over and over – lifting up the lowly and doing great things through them. It reminds me of the Princess Bride when...
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Mar 281 min
JOY & HOPE!
Holy Week takes us to the depths of despair in the crucifixion and then on Sunday, finding an empty tomb, everything that was sorrow...
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Mar 211 min
LAMENT & ACTION
This Sunday we’ll begin Holy Week with Jesus’s entrance into Jerusalem. He was pretty famous and a big crowd cheered him on. When he...
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Mar 141 min
LAMENT & HOPE
When we cry out our sorrow and grief to God, it is with confidence that God hears and God cares. It’s also with hope that things will...
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Mar 71 min
LAMENT & COMMUNITY
In community, we are caught up in forces bigger than us, and we lament. We lament that sexism still exists. That racism is still part of...
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Feb 221 min
LAMENT & HONESTY
I find lament difficult. Or maybe it’s the honesty part I find challenging. Merely the act of naming my sorrow and grief seems to...
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Feb 151 min
WHY LAMENT?
Lent is a time of sorrow and sin, both of which we tend to run away from. Grief is hard and painful, so we lack patience with sorrow. Sin...
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Feb 81 min
BELONGING TOGETHER
At our Monday Bible Study we are reading the gospel of John and learning that while the other gospels are all about following Jesus, John...
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Feb 11 min
COURAGE TO BE FIRST
They say that the arrogant amongst us are actually covering up insecurity. If you’ve been accused of being arrogant, you might know what...
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Jan 251 min
COURAGE TO BE LAST
So much of life is about uplifting others, putting them first and then coming in last ourselves. It takes courage! And it is...
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Jan 181 min
COURAGE TO BE GRACIOUS
Paul had every reason to be snarly and nasty. He was in prison, not eating well, and not out preaching the gospel like he wanted. But...
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Jan 111 min
COURAGE TO BE VULNERABLE
Paul was in prison, living in discomfort, under threat, and probably with not enough to eat. He had been preaching the good news of Jesus...
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Jan 41 min
GOD IN IMPOSSIBLE PLACES
As we welcome the new year, we continue to celebrate Christmas, that God was born and walked among us. This Sunday we celebrate the end...
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Jan 31 min
GOD IN IMPOSSIBLE PLACES
Last Sunday we said goodbye to 2023 as we continue celebrating the Christmas season (Christmas continues all the way to Epiphany, Jan...
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