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Love Remains | Ephesians 2:1-10In every situation, love is the better choice.

Christmas Eve: God as a Baby \\ Zephaniah 3:14-17God is with us, as a baby. He is ours to hold, enjoy, and adore. Merry Christmas!

Centering Ourselves in the Coming Messiah| Advent IV \\ Isaiah 61:1-4 & John 1:6-8, 19-28In our desperation for all that is broken to be restored, we are tempted to grasp for control and try to bring about this restoration ourselves. When we let go and center ourselves instead in Jesus our coming Messiah, we can experience the love and the safety we so desperately long for, even now as we wait...

The Paradoxical Christian Life | Advent III | Isaiah 40:1-11The Christian life is one of great paradoxes, and the Advent season is a time that draws us into this very reality. We are a people that simultaneously hold a life of waiting and longing with a life of laboring and preparing. We are fully rooted in the present while also pointing ourselves towards the coming Kingdom of God. The Israelite...

The Weary World and the Absent God | Advent II \\ Mark 13:24-37Advent asks us to reflect on the darkness of the world in a way that helps us see we have every reason to hope.

The Weary World in the Shadow of Death | Isaiah 25We live in the dark veil of death. Advent is about watching and waiting for God and all that comes with Him, Justice, peace, and finally the end of death.

The Table is Crossed Shaped | Luke 9:23-27Jesus table is cross-shaped. And those seated at His table are invited to participate in cross-shaped living. What seems like death, actually offers life.

The Table: Busyness | Luke 10:38-42We live in a world of hustle. No matter what stage of life you are in you are likely busy. But Jesus challenges the idea that being busy is what's best for our humanity.

The Table: Life with God | John 15:1-11Enjoying God is not meant to be a human luxury, but the heart of what it means to be human. Jesus has some thoughts on how we might begin to experience this enjoyment here and now, even in the busy, broken, places of our lives.

The Table: Distraction | 1 Peter 1:3-9What does it mean to live a Jesus centered life in a world of distraction? I think Jesus' answer is as compelling as it is radical.

The Table : Be Real | Luke 18:9-17Confession is the birthplace of communion. Like most of what Jesus' teaches, the counterintuitive reality of coming to terms with our human limitations can be scary, but in it we find liberation and redemption.

The Table : Inclusion | Matthew 15:21-28Jesus table is open to absolutely anyone. Yes really! So how do we as God's people begin to embody Jesus' inclusion.

A Communal Table Pt. 2: Anti-communion | Genesis 4:8-16We were made to love and be loved. Our tendency towards isolation is not merely an unfortunate circumstance, but the very thing God has come to unmake in us.

A Communal Table Pt. 1 | John 7:37-39"Let's do life together!" What does that really mean and what does Jesus have to do with it?

An Invitation to Jesus' TableJesus invites us into our full humanity, into life. But the invitation comes with some caveats

The Center of all Things | Matthew 1:1-17Jesus stands at the center of history. But what does that have to do with me?

We Are Exiles | Isaiah 50:1-11We often wonder why God is so silent, so distant, and why life feels so heavy and hard at times. Yet Isaiah offers us surprising hope in the midst of the desert. More than that, he shows a God who enters the desert with us.

The Central Thing | 1 & 2 KingsThe narrative story of Israel's Kings is largely a story of failure. But the narrator invites to see behind the scenes and find a God of life at work in a history of death. There is a central invitation to us here.

Losing my Religion | JonahReligion has wounded, disillusioned, and 'othered' so many of us. The prophet Jonah helps us see how, and to explore the invitation of the God who is bigger than our religion. Where will we go from here?

Radical Inclusion - RuthThe inclusion of Jesus was not new. In fact Jesus, echoed the inclusion meant to be modeled by God's people.

Getting it Right Where it Counts // 2 SamuelDavid's life is a mess. He is violent, unfaithful, and deceitful. Yet, according to the scriptures there is something about him which makes him a man after God's heart. What in the world are we supposed to learn from a guy like this?

Whose side is God on? // Joshua 5:13-15It's easy to assume that God being for us makes God against 'them.' But the reality of God's redemptive plan reaches far beyond our tribalism.

A Law of Love? DeuteronomyReading the Hebrew Law as modern followers of Jesus often leaves us perplexed and possibly offended. We are ultimately left with the question of what in the world these ancient law codes have to do with us. We're tackling some of these questions together this week.

Exodus 40:33–38We often think of liberation in terms of freedom from rather than liberation into. Yet the God of liberation is a God of love, always liberating into divine communion.

Exodus 12:21–36The story of the Exodus is well known. And if we will allow it, this monumental moment in the life of the Hebrew people can shape our imagination in a way that leads us into the subversive way of a liberating God.