Rev. Brian Steele's Message

12.8.24 Making Room: Welcome the Stranger 09.12.2024 22:43 ↓

Strangers and foreigners have a special place in the heart of God. What does that mean for us today?

12.1.24 Making Room: Be a Neighbor 09.12.2024 19:51 ↓

Could we have misunderstood the birth story? Is it actually a story of incredible hospitality? Perhaps!

11.24.24 What if...God multiplied what we gave. 09.12.2024 20:31 ↓

After we remember why we give and trust God with what we have, my goodness does Jesus multiply it.

11.3.24 All Saints Day: The Holiness of Grief 09.12.2024 25:15 ↓

It is holy to grieve. It honors the love that our Saints have given us.

11.17.24 What if...We trusted God with what we have 09.12.2024 29:41 ↓

What does it mean to trust God with our belongings? And what does Jesus say about those who abuse the gifts of others? Take a listen!

11.10.24 What if...we gave to a purpose instead of an institution 09.12.2024 25:37 ↓

Why did Zacchaeus do what he did? Because he realized he had a purpose greater than himself.

10.27.24 The Ten Commandments: Living and Speaking Truthfully, Exodus 20:1-2, 16-17 09.12.2024 23:20 ↓

What does it mean to live a life of truth? Bias of all sorts leads us to bearing false witness, and it is costing lives. Let's look to an alternative

10.13.24 Recognizing the Sacred in All, Exodus 20:1-2, 12-13 09.12.2024 22:08 ↓

Honor your mother and father doesn't mean taking abusive behavior. And do not kill may actually mean we don't, you know, kill anybody.

The 10 Commandments: The Forgotten Commandment, Exodus 20:8-11 06.10.2024 29:44 ↓

We need to receive the gift of Sabbath.

The 10 Commandments: The First Three 30.09.2024 32:17 ↓

Do these belong in our classroom or on our hearts?

7.14.24 Major on the Minors: Obadiah 15.07.2024 22:30 ↓

For God, no nation stands above another. Here what the shortest book in the Old Testament has to say about that.

7.7.24 Whatever It Takes 08.07.2024 22:37 ↓

Our new purpose as a church....whatever it takes.

7.1.24 Core Values: Serving All and Allowing All to Serve 01.07.2024 17:38 ↓

We want to be a community that you not only belong to, but one where all can participate.

6.23.24 Core Values: Spiritually Hungry, Acts 2:42 24.06.2024 22:10 ↓

We are people who are desiring more of God. What does that look like?

5.26.24 Core Values: Hospitality 26.05.2024 20:54 ↓

Hazel Park loves to be hospitable. What does that mean in the Bible?

5.12.24 Ascension Sunday: The Cosmic Christ 13.05.2024 18:19 ↓

Jesus picked a weird time to start working from home. But is it really good news?

5.5.24 Revelation: The New Heaven and New Earth. It's God's Reality 06.05.2024 18:25 ↓

God doesn't come to destroy, but restore.

4.28.24 Revelation: We are not Left Behind 06.05.2024 20:53 ↓

The rapture is more modern than ancient, and, most importantly, is not in the Bible.

4.21.24 Revelation: Lamb Theology 06.05.2024 25:35 ↓

Christian Nationalism is incompatible with Christian teaching.

4.14.24 Revelation: Drop it Like it's Hot, Revelation 3:14-22 15.04.2024 24:43 ↓

What in the world is going on in Laodicea? The Roman Empire is what's going on.

Revelation: What is an Apocalypse 08.04.2024 23:02 ↓

Hint: It's not the end of the world.

3.31.24 Easter Sunday: The Resurrection is for You 31.03.2024 18:08 ↓

Let's join in the resurrection any way we can!

3.28.24 Maundy Thursday: Lowly Love 29.03.2024 21:50 ↓

Jesus washed feet the night before He died. What does that mean for us?

3.24.24 Palm Sunday: A Parade of Protest 25.03.2024 20:42 ↓

Whose parade are we showing up for? Pilate or Jesus?

3.17.24 Forgiveness: Injustice, Forgiveness and Reconciliation 18.03.2024 26:36 ↓

How do injustice and forgiveness go together? There's some tension, to be sure!