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Micah discusses the value of justice and its consistent thread throughout scripture.

Micah looks at the different aspects of beauty and its importance in the world we live in. The perception of beauty is an occasion for 'unselfing'

Micah discusses the practice of being authentic and offers up what a community can look like when we fully bring ourselves.

Micah discusses the practice of being hospitable and its importance in the life of the gospel.

Revelations 21: 1-5, 10 A new heaven and a new earth is a central theme in evangelical circles, but how do we walk out a faith that integrates our realities with our hopes for the future? Micah discusses the significance of living a holistic life.

John 1:1-14 - The Word of God incarnate, the image of the invisible God (Colossians 1), the exact representation of God (Hebrews). This is a continuation of Lost in Translation talking about the fact that the Bible "attests" to Jesus but does not supersede Jesus who is the original word.

Osheta Moore paints a picture of what Jesus might really mean when he foretells the separating of the sheep from the goats in Matthew 25

Reverend Kelly Chatman discusses the at times challenging messages within Matthew 5 with some real life examples of what it looks like to embody Jesus' words for the people.

There are two different tellings of creation in Genesis 1 and 2. Micah pieces together the essence of this commonly misunderstood discrepancy and explores what it says about who God is.

This week Micah takes on Romans 1:18-32 and the patriarchal system in which it is contextualized. This discussion follows up the July 31 message on 1 Corinthians 6.

Micah tackles 1 Corinthians 6:9-11, a passage at the root of many disagreements around human sexuality in the Christian Church. On August 14th Micah will engage Romans 1 as a part two if this discussion.

Exodus 4:19-21 Does God engineer the hardening of Pharaoh's heart against the Israelites? Micah discusses when we ourselves start to become set in ways of thinking and being.

2 Kings 6:24-7:2 Micah tackles a real zinger of a passage where someone eats their firstborn and their neighbors children amidst a famine in Israel. What's really going on in this passage?

1 Thess 4:13-18 This is the passage that many use to legitimize the idea of the rapture and Christians being taken away to heaven.

Philippians 4:10-23 I have learned to be content in all circumstances. Jenna discusses the wrestling we sometimes experience with verses like this.

Micah provides background to this weeks annual meeting with the ECC and answers questions from the congregation.

Philippians 3:12-21 mentions heaven and usually this gets put into the category of "up there someday when we die", yet Paul in verses 20-21 makes clear that Jesus brings "heaven" to us in these bodies on this earth.

Philippians 2:12-18 says to work out your salvation with fear and trembling. What does that mean and what does it actually mean to "shine like stars in the universe"?

The first half of the poem is the cruciform life…a path of descent, humility and sacrifice. The second half of the poem is the daring hope that in the end God redeems all that God created.

Striving together AS ONE without fear of opposition knowing that suffering may come.

Paul seems content to live his life for the sake of something other than HIMSELF. He seems to be offering a reversal to the natural tendency of humans which is to focus on self.

A pastors heart/hopes for his people. Confident that God will complete what God has begun, I pray your love may abound in knowledge, that you may be able to discern a path that leads to life, and that your lives will be filled with the fruit of life and resurrection.

40 days between resurrection and ascension as the church is being prepared to be the new expression of God’s people in the world.

Jesus resurrection becomes an animated narrative that brings liberation and hope to the oppressed and marginalized.

Jesus enters the city on Palm Sunday to the people wanting him to be king.