Middle Church

• Grieving can feel like sitting in the dark, but it might actually be walking toward the light. • Imagine now walking in the light, with God, with your grief. How does that feel? • How might acknowledging our grief save us? How might truth make us whole?

• The first Sunday in March last year was the last time we gathered in the Middle Church sanctuary. What thoughts and feelings arise in you as you mark this anniversary and the oneyear anniversary of the onset of COVID in the U.S.? • Where have you flipped over tables in the name of Justice and Love in your own life? Where might you? • What does Church beyond walls look like to you? Who do you hop...

Amanda Hambrick Ashcraft, preacher

Jacqui Lewis, preacher

• If you could change your name to something that says who you truly are, what would it be? Whisper it to God. Shout it. Claim it. • Our circumstances change us. Name one thing this year that etched something new on you, pushed something new out of you. • Right now, right where you are, choreograph your part in the movement of Middle Church. Rehearse it, take a selfie of you doing it and tag us on...

Darrell Hamilton, preacher

• Who are the people God might be calling you to listen to during this Lenten season? Where are they located? How might we all be changed by going nearer to them and listening more intentionally to their stories? • Repentance means to turn or return, so how might God be challenging you to turn (or return) within yourself to reflect more intently on what God is calling for your life? • How might we...

Chad Tanaka Pack, preacher

• How are you celebrating Lunar New Year? How is God helping you with a new beginning today? • In what contexts do you have privilege? How might you use that social privilege to change stories of injustice? • In the 1886 U.S. Supreme Court decision Yick Wo v. Hopkins, Chinese American laundry owners in San Francisco successfully advocated for their rights. Learn more about this case online, and sh...

Jacqui Lewis, preacher

• I’m tired. All kinda of ways tired. Aren’t you? How do you restore your soul when you’re whipped? • Old or young God gives power to the faint and the powerless. Where do you need power right now? How will you use it? • “Wait on God . . . Renew your strength.” How will you wait?

Jacqui Lewis, preacher

• If house is a metaphor for psyche or spirit, is there any place your house is messy? • From your point of view, what “Unclean Spirits” are haunting our culture? • Fill in the blanks: If I clean-up my _________________________, that will help clean up our culture’s _________________________. • Our deacons are called to care. What are you called to?

Jacqui Lewis, preacher

• When you hear, “The Reign of God has come near,” what do you see? • What does it mean in your life to follow Rabbi Jesus? • How might Middle Church make “following Jesus” a path for more people?

Jacqui Lewis, preacher

Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Sunday

Amanda Hambrick Ashcraft, pracher

Baptism of Jesus worship

Natalie Renee Perkins, preacher

SECOND SUNDAY OF CHRISTMAS

Wesley Rowell, preacher

New Year's Eve Worship Celebration

Ben Perry, preacher

First Sunday of Christmas worship