Ecclesia Princeton

Pastor Ian Graham looks at John 14 exploring what it looks like when God makes his home with us, exploring our vision as a community and where we are and where we’re going as a church. Support the show

Pastor Ian Graham looks at Jesus’ response to our doubts,  and how faith and doubt coexist as a part of spiritual formation. Support the show

ISI Princeton director Carrie Louer leads us through Psalm 131 as we explore what it means to hold fast in faithful trust. Support the show

Pastor Ian Graham looks at the sociological concept of "social imaginaries" and the way we often perceive and act in the world without thinking. And then he turns to the Gospel of John where a blind man is given sight by the grace and power of Jesus and those who can see physically, turn out to be blind spiritually.  Support the show

Pastor Ian Graham looks at one of the promised benefits of faith: peace. We often associate religious peace with "inner peace" but the scriptures' vision for peace is not just internal but communal, holistic, embodied  Support the show

Pastor Ian Graham begins our teaching series on faith looking at the landscape of faith in our culture and calling us to see the wide-ranging implications of belief.   Support the show

Bob Louer of ISI Princeton looks at the announcement of Jesus’ birth to Zechariah and the steadiness of God in the twists and turns of life. Support the show

Pastor Ian Graham looks at how Herod's response to the rumor of another king is common to all of us and how Jesus comes to our dark world anyway.  Support the show

Princeton Seminary Intern, Andrew Ojeda, opens the scriptures for us looking at Mary’s song and the way the announcement of Jesus’ birth challenges our notions of a savior. Support the show

Pastor Ian Graham looks at the ways that Jesus invites us to participate in God’s healing in our lives. Support the show

Pastor Ian Graham looks at the most powerful prayer and the first step towards healing and how God works healing through his unfailing promise. Support the show

Pastor Ian Graham begins our teaching series on healing with a theological term, a promise, and a disclaimer and the holistic healing (physical, emotional, spiritual, communal) that Jesus holds in his hands. Support the show

Pastor Ian Graham leads us in the final teaching in our series in the mission of God. Ecclesians read various passages from the narrative of the scriptures that overwhelmingly demonstrate that God is a God of the poor and that to be on mission with him is to go to the places that he already is. Scripture references: Exodus 3vv7-8 Leviticus 25 Deuteronomy 24vv17-22 Isaiah 1vv10-18  Isaiah 58vv6-12...

Carrie Louer gives us a framework for discerning and stewarding our vocational calling.  Support the show

Ecclesia director of worship, Alfredo Carmona, looks at how we join God in his mission, together.  Support the show

Pastor Ian Graham looks at the difference between ambition for project self and a holy ambition set on doing God’s will.  Support the show

The fundamental economic principal of the kingdom of God is sacrifice. Pastor Ian Graham looks at our sacrificial leaving in response to Jesus’ atoning sacrifice and invites us to consider four areas where we sacrifice individually and collectively to join God in his mission. Support the show

Pastor Ian Graham looks at the holistic mission of God from the vantage point of the beginning of the story and how Jesus’ gospel invites us to participate in this ongoing call and mission. Support the show

Pastor Ian Graham continues our series on the mission of God looking at how God’s presence brings us power, perspective, perseverance, and peace.  Support the show

Pastor Ian Graham kicks off our fall teaching series on the mission of God by looking at Jesus’ own understanding of his mission, our struggles with confidence, complacency, and conformity and how Jesus meets us even when we don’t have it all together. Support the show

Pastor Ian Graham finishes our teaching series in the book of Ephesians examining Paul’s exhortations to put on the armor of God. Support the show

Pastor Ian Graham continues our series in Ephesians examining Paul’s instructions to the church to stand against the forces of darkness and how these powers and principalities show up in our world. Support the show

Pastor Ian Graham invites us to use the musical concept of transposing as we look at the instructions given to fathers, children, slaves, and masters.  Support the show

Pastor Ian Graham looks at Paul's instructions to wives, husbands, and how they fit within a wider frame of instructions given to the whole of the family of God.  Support the show

Randy Stratton looks at Paul's prayer in Ephesians and invites us into a life face to face with God in the power of prayer.  Support the show