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We are exploring fresh expressions of a Jesus-shaped life. We tell stories, craft liturgies, write songs, and listen to diverse voices. Aware of the spiritual trauma many carry, we offer these resources humbly, not as truth with a capital “T”, but as reflections of our own journeys.
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We follow the liturgical calendar–Advent, Christmas, Epiphany, Lent, Easter, Eastertide, Pentecost, Ordinary Time, and within Ordinary Time, the Season of Creation. As we make this annual journey, the scriptures and themes interface with what is unfolding both within our community and the world around us. Invariably, the Spirit shows up. Our sermon series, blogs, and home grown liturgies are designed around these seasons yet are also infused with the presence of a God who faithfully feeds us and loves us.
Curiosity, wondering, questions, and storytelling are vehicles for our growth. We find our way, together.
Blog
Good News for Holy Week
On Palm Sunday, we entered Holy Week by gathering for breakfast in each other’s homes. Each brunch group put on a skit to join the crowds that gathered to welcome Jesus as he entered Jerusalem. (If you were not able to attend, Mark 11:1–11 recollects this day.) The...
Good News is Grounded in Mercy, Justice, and Faithfulness
We designed our All-IN Sunday around three central words from Matthew 23:23 – ‘the weightier matters’ of justice, mercy, faithfulness. In a world awash in words, how do we actually sense the ‘weight’ of these specific words? What meaning do they convey to us, in the...
Good News Protects the Vulnerable
In Matthew 18, parents brought children to Jesus, while the disciples, trying to be helpful, barred their access. Jesus responded, “Don’t stop them - let them come to me!” We center children in our culture. But in the ancient world, children held little social status....
Together, what seems impossible becomes possible
In Mark 6:32-44, Jesus fed a crowd of thousands with a few loaves and fishes that his disciples offered him. Mark’s telling of the story emphasizes numbers: two hundred denarii, five loaves and two fish, groups of fifties and hundreds, twelve baskets, five thousand....
Tell Me Something Good
In Luke 7:36–50, a sex worker hears that Jesus will be attending a party hosted by Simon the Pharisee. She crashes the dinner party. When she sees that Simon, the host, fails to wash Jesus’ feet, she kneels down, washes the dirt off with her tears and hair, and...