Category: God, Grace, Transformed, Welcoming Everyone / Speaker: Pastor Jason
July 23, 2017
The Abraham story is filled with new ideas about God, as we heard from Rob Bell earlier. It represents a dramatic shift within human understanding of God, with the way humans thought about God. ...
Category: Choices, God, God's Kin(g)dom / Speaker: Pastor Jason
July 02, 2017
I have a few games to start out this morning. Just play along… Game 1: What color is snow? What color are clouds? What color is whipped cream? What color are polar bears? What do...
Category: Life & Love, Welcoming Everyone / Speaker: Pastor Joanie
June 25, 2017
Pray with me. Silence. Holy One. May we listen to You. And by listening, may we love. Amen. At the Baptist Theological Seminary at Richmond, one of the requirements for graduation is a Mission Immersion Experience. ...
Category: Life & Love, Welcoming Everyone / Speaker: Pastor Jason
June 18, 2017
Jesus traveled among all the cities and villages, teaching in their synagogues, announcing the good news of the kingdom, and healing every disease and every sickness. Now when Jesus saw the crowds, he had compassion...
Category: Division & Unity, Welcoming Everyone / Speaker: Pastor Jason
June 11, 2017
Origin stories such as Genesis are some of the most beautiful writing in all of scripture. At the same time poetry and prose. Evoking beautiful images that reach back into a time and place p...
Category: Division & Unity, God's Kin(g)dom, Welcoming Everyone / Speaker: Pastor Jason
June 04, 2017
Procrustes, son of Poseidon from Greek Mythology, was an iron smith and inn keeper. He offered hospitality to strangers passing his place on the road between Athens and Eleusis…for a price. Procrustes had a special bed...
Category: Choices, Faith & Spirituality, Identity, Transformed / Speaker: Pastor Jason
May 28, 2017
A few Sundays ago, I spoke about how the church’s overemphasis on belief has watered down Christianity into something more about our heads than our way of life. Just to remind you, I gave you...
Category: Faith & Spirituality, God / Speaker: Pastor Jason
May 15, 2017
Are you familiar with the I AM statements in the Bible? There are 7 of them (some folks advocate for 8). They all say something different, something unique. I am… The Bread of Life The Light...