Your Week with St. Luke’s

Continuing our Sacred Civics series, we explore Jesus’ challenging command to “love your enemies” and what it means to see even those we disagree with as our neighbors, breaking cycles of division and living out the unconditional love of God. Go deeper on our free app: https://lifetherhythm.app/ Looking for a small group? View a full listing at: st.lukes.org/lifetogether/

What does it mean to live as a citizen of God’s kingdom in our world today? In this episode, Pastor Melissa explores Jesus’ Sermon on the Mount and the Beatitudes, and considers what they reveal about God’s kingdom, marginalized people, community, and how we live out our faith in the world around us. Go deeper on our free app: https://www.livetherhythm.app/ Looking for a small group? View a full l...

Join Pastor Melissa, and Dr. Ashley Boggan, author of Wesleyan Vile-tality, as we wrap up our "history" lessons and why they matter for us today. Go deeper on our free app: https://www.livetherhythm.app/ Looking for a small group? View a full listing at: https://www.st.lukes.org/lifetogether/  

Pastor Melissa explores Jeremiah 7 and the call to remember who—and whose—we are. Discover why true worship goes beyond rituals and institutions to a life of justice, compassion, and faithful action.  Go deeper on our free app: https://www.livetherhythm.app/ Looking for a small group? View a full listing at: https://www.st.lukes.org/lifetogether/

Explore the story of Israel’s demand for a king in 1 Samuel 8. Join Pastor Melissa as she discusses what it reveals about fear, trust, identity, power, and the temptation to seek security by becoming “like all the other nations.” Go deeper on our free app: https://www.livetherhythm.app/ Looking for a small group? View a full listing at: https://www.st.lukes.org/lifetogether/

What does it mean to be a people set apart? In this episode of Your Week with St. Luke’s, Pastor Melissa explores Deuteronomy 6 and the Shema, examining how Israel’s unique identity was shaped by its singular devotion to God. As we connect this ancient story to our Methodist heritage, we’re invited to consider what it means for us to live out our own particular identity as followers of Jesus today...

What if God’s call comes not in a dramatic moment, but in the middle of ordinary life? In this week’s Your Week with St. Luke’s, Pastor Melissa explores Exodus 3 and Moses’ encounter with God at the burning bush, and what it teaches us about calling, holy ground, and God’s promise to be with us. Discover how God can use imperfect people—even those who question, protest, or doubt themselves—to brin...

Every story has a beginning, and every people have a history that shapes their future. As Israel's story begins under oppression in Egypt, we meet ordinary people—the Hebrew midwives and Pharaoh's daughter—whose courageous faith changes history. Their stories remind us that faith has never been confined to houses of worship but has always been lived out in the public square.  Tune in to this week'...

What happens when the Holy Spirit interrupts ordinary life? In this Pentecost episode of Your Week with St. Luke’s, Pastors Corey and Melissa dive into Acts 2:1–21 and explore how God’s Spirit transformed fearful disciples into a courageous, compassionate community that carried the story of Jesus into the world. Together, they reflect on the meaning of Pentecost as more than a dramatic moment of w...

What do we do with the parts of our story we wish we could undo? In this week’s episode of Your Week with St. Luke’s, Pastors Corey and Melissa reflect on one of the most tender and human moments in the Gospel of John: the resurrected Jesus meeting Peter beside a breakfast fire in John 21:15–19. After denial, shame, and failure, Peter expects judgment—but instead receives grace, restoration, and a...

In this week’s episode of Your Week with St. Luke’s, Pastors Corey and Melissa reflect on John 21 and the powerful post-resurrection moment when Jesus meets his disciples in the midst of their ordinary lives—after a long, fruitless night of fishing—and quietly serves them breakfast on the shore. Their conversation explores how resurrection isn’t just found in dramatic or extraordinary moments, but...

Is doubt the opposite of faith? In this week’s episode of Your Week with St. Luke’s, we continue our Eastertide journey through “Love University” in the Commons, exploring what it means to live as a resurrection community through the story of Thomas in John 20:24–29. In a thoughtful and engaging conversation, Pastors Corey, Jad, and Melissa reflect on Thomas’s so-called “doubt,” reframing it not a...

In this episode of Your Week with St. Luke’s, St. Luke’s Pastors Corey, Jad, and Melissa reflect on John 20:19–23, exploring how the risen Jesus meets the disciples in their fear, speaks peace into their anxiety, and immediately sends them out with the gift of the Holy Spirit and the responsibility of forgiveness. The conversation highlights the movement from fear to joy, from disorientation to pu...

In this special episode of Your Week with St. Luke’s, Pastor Jad is joined by St. Lukers Dayani Fernando and Mark Niederman for an honest and hope-filled conversation marking Autism Awareness Month—while inviting listeners to move beyond awareness toward true acceptance. Through personal stories and faith-centered reflection, they explore the wide spectrum of autism, the challenges families face,...

In this Eastertide episode of Your Week with St. Luke’s, Pastors Corey, Jad, and Melissa reflect on Luke 24:36–49, exploring the powerful moment when the risen Jesus appears to his disciples—speaking peace into their fear even as they struggle with doubt. Through honest conversation, they unpack the tension of believing in something that feels “too good to be true,” highlighting how Jesus meets th...

In this episode of Your Week with St. Luke’s, the pastors kick off our new Eastertide series, The Commons, reflecting on Luke 24 and the story of the road to Emmaus, exploring what it means to live as a resurrection community. As two disciples walk in confusion, grief, and disappointment, the risen Jesus meets them along the way—though they do not recognize him at first. Through their conversation...

In this episode of Your Week with St. Luke’s, the final episode of our Lenten series Crossroads, pastors Corey, Melissa, and Jad invite us into the depth and significance of Holy Week as more than just a lead-up to Easter, but as the very heart of the Christian story. Walking through the movement from Palm Sunday to the Last Supper, the cross, and the stillness of Holy Saturday, they reflect on ho...

In this episode of Your Week with St. Luke’s, Pastor Jad reflects on the Palm Sunday story from Matthew 21 as the culmination of the Lenten Crossroads series, inviting listeners to wrestle with the tension between expectation and the way of Jesus. While the crowds shout the right words— “Hosanna” and “Son of David”—they misunderstand the kind of king Jesus is, expecting power and triumph while he...

In this episode of Your Week with St. Luke’s, we continue our Lenten series, Crossroads, by exploring John 11 and the powerful story of the raising of Lazarus. Pastor Jad reflects on how the story unfolds less as a miracle tale and more as a series of conversations that reveal who Jesus is, culminating in his declaration, “I am the resurrection and the life.” As Martha, Mary, and their grieving co...

In this episode of Your Week with St. Luke’s, we explore John 9 and the story of Jesus healing the man born blind through the lens of our Lenten series Crossroads and this week's theme: Learning to See Differently. What begins as a story about physical sight becomes a deeper reflection on perception, assumptions, and spiritual openness. As the man who was blind gradually recognizes who Jesus is, t...

In this episode of Your Week with St. Luke’s, Pastor Jad explores the powerful encounter between Jesus and the Samaritan woman in John 4:5–42, a story that unfolds at the crossroads of culture, theology, and human division. As part of our Lenten journey, this lesson reveals how Jesus intentionally crosses boundaries of ethnicity, gender, and religion to reveal God’s living water to someone society...

In this episode of Your Week with St. Luke’s, Pastor Jad explores Gospel of John 3:1–17 through Jesus’ nighttime conversation with Nicodemus, inviting listeners to reflect on what it means to be “born from above.” Unpacking the rich symbolism and double meanings in John’s Gospel: light and darkness, wind and Spirit, lifting up and exaltation, the episode examines how sincere faith can coexist with...

In this special episode of Your Week with St. Luke’s, Pastor Jad launches the Lenten series called Crossroads with a reflection on Matthew 4:1–11, where Jesus faces temptation in the wilderness. Framed as “Love 101: Resisting False Power,” the episode explores how Jesus, freshly named God’s beloved Son at his baptism, is tested not in his identity but in what that identity means. Drawing connectio...

In this episode of Your Week with St. Luke’s, Pastor Jad invites listeners to step thoughtfully into the season of Lent by exploring the meaning and history of Ash Wednesday. Tracing Lent’s roots to the early church as a season of communal preparation, repentance, and renewal, he explains the biblical symbolism of ashes as signs of mortality and truth-telling before God. Reflecting on Matthew 6, P...

In this episode of Your Week with St. Luke’s, all four pastors come together to explore what it truly means to lead our lives as disciples of Jesus in everyday, ordinary life. Rooted in 2 Peter 1 (from The Message), the conversation reflects on discipleship as transformation rather than perfection; faith that moves from belief into embodied practice through God’s grace. Using rich Wesleyan imagery...