Middle Church

Being the Beloved Community — October 20, 2019 20.10.2019 20:43 ↓

Marte Samuelstuen, preacher

LATINX/HISPANIC HERITAGE MONTH :: Oct 13 13.10.2019 1:05:50 ↓

• How did today’s sermon and music inspire you for the week ahead? How can you be a part of God’s vision?

Somos Mas: A Call For Liberation — October 13, 2019 13.10.2019 15:32 ↓

Damaris Whittaker, preacher

In Plain Sight — October 6, 2019 06.10.2019 19:05 ↓

Jacqui Lewis, preacher

LATINX HERITAGE MONTH: WORLD COMMUNION SUNDAY :: Oct 6 06.10.2019 1:10:02 ↓

• How did today’s sermon and music inspire you for the week ahead? How can you be a part of God’s vision?

“Waging Peace” — September 29, 2019 29.09.2019 18:40 ↓

Jacqui Lewis, preacher

HISPANIC HERITAGE MONTH :: Sep 29 29.09.2019 1:16:09 ↓

• Young people have lead the way to peace for generations. Remind yourself of your younger you; what we’re you passionate about fixing in the world? • How does your inner young person want to do right now to heal the world? • What are three things you can do to make peace in your circle of relationships? • Attend the Puerto Rico Talk Back today at 1:30 PM to learn more about their summer trip to P...

In This Here Place We Flesh — September 22, 2019 22.09.2019 10:35 ↓

Wesley Steven Rowell, preacher

IN CELEBRATION OF QUEER BLACK MEN :: Sep 22 22.09.2019 1:10:55 ↓

IN CELEBRATION OF QUEER BLACK MEN :: Sep 22 by Middle Collegiate Church

HOMECOMING SUNDAY :: Sep 15 15.09.2019 1:11:34 ↓

• This whole section of Luke is about loss: woman loses coin, shepherd loses sheep, father loses son. We’ve all lost something; as Ruby says, "Where does it hurt?" • Something pushes the younger son to leave “home,” and then he “comes to himself” and returns to love. Is his story in any way like yours? • The father’s joy that what was lost is now found points to God’s joy when we turn back toward...

Come Home to Love — September 15, 2019 15.09.2019 15:56 ↓

Jacqui Lewis, preacher

Poetry Slam: Reflections on Breath — September 8, 2019 08.09.2019 24:13 ↓

Jocelyn Lieu and Erica Hunt, preachers

PATRIOT DAY :: Sep 8 08.09.2019 1:19:36 ↓

• Breath, Spirit, Wind—they are the same words in Hebrew (Ruach) and Greek (Pneuma). • Where are you feeling BREATHless? Inhale now as a ritual to fill that space. • Where do you need an influx of Spirit in your life? • Where do you pray America will have the Winds of Change blow through?

This Is What Love Looks Like — September 1, 2019 01.09.2019 16:27 ↓

Christina Fleming, preacher

LABOR DAY :: Sep 1 01.09.2019 1:11:53 ↓

• What does love look like to you? • What are ways people and Spirit has been hospitable to you? • This week what radical act of hospitality would you like to offer?

In Plain Sight — August 25, 2019 27.08.2019 18:35 ↓

Derrick Harkins, preacher

SLAVERY IN NORTH AMERICA: 400 YEARS :: Aug 25 27.08.2019 1:15:13 ↓

• What are your take-aways from Derrick’s sermon?

Outdoing Jesus: Why it’s good news and how you are doing it — August 18, 2019 18.08.2019 26:52 ↓

“Outdoing Jesus: Why it’s good news and how you are doing it” - Doug Pagitt, preacher

THIS IS WHAT LOVE LOOKS LIKE :: Aug 18 18.08.2019 1:19:18 ↓

• What are your take-aways from Doug’s sermon?

THIS IS WHAT LOVE LOOKS LIKE :: Aug 11 11.08.2019 1:05:52 ↓

We learn a lot about God during times when God feels close. But Jesus and the prophets were clear that God would also feel distant at times. The text today is one of the several parables Jesus tells about an “absent God.” • What can we learn about God in God’s absence that we can’t learn in God’s presence? Is it possible to get clarity in absence as well as presence? • Where does God feel absent i...

The Absent God – August 11, 2019 11.08.2019 16:39 ↓

The Absent God - Rob Stephens, preacher

THIS IS WHAT LOVE LOOKS LIKE :: Aug 04 04.08.2019 1:20:09 ↓

• One way to think about human development is that a “good enough mother” holds us while we become whole. How is God a good-enough mom? • To quote my Mama Ruby, “Where does it hurt?” • How can God, Love, we, you help heal it?

Steadfast. Forever. – August 04, 2019 04.08.2019 19:53 ↓

Steadfast. Forever. Jacqui Lewis, preacher

STRIVE TOWARD FREEDOM :: Jul 28 28.07.2019 1:09:19 ↓

• What is heaven like in your dreams? What images from scripture, other texts, or art shape that vision? • What can you do today, this week, this month to make heaven on earth?

On Earth, as It Is in Heaven – July 28, 2019 28.07.2019 18:27 ↓

Jacqui Lewis, preacher