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As we recover from the damage of the Hurricane, Amanda explains that while we know what it means NOT to have power, the same power that raised Jesus from the grave is the power that’s in us. When we find yourself in challenges, we need to think, “…but, God.” God is big enough, powerful enough, for anything we encounter. What does it look like when we’re a slave to fear, a slave to our addictions?...

“What makes a bad thing become a good thing?” Have you ever looked back at something terrible that happened to them, and seen the way it turned out to have become a good thing in the end? 1 Corinthians 15:1-8 fmhouston.com

Ken breaks down how through the crucifixion, Jesus became our high priest. He is the restorer. But he took the lowest form he could when he did it. “If you are going to participate in the life of Jesus, it is impossible to separate from a call of being a family. You cannot do it. There is no taking hold of the grace of God and rejecting your brother and sister.” Hebrews 2:10-18 fmhouston.com

In today’s sermon, Ken’s digging into a verse that has sometimes been used by the church to marginalize and hurt other people. But this is not not just an indictment of what other people have done - Ken wants to show us how easy it is for the people of the church to hurt each other. John 18:28-19:16 fmhouston.com

One of the major themes we see in scripture is God as love, God as compassion. And in Jesus, we see that expression, so that we might come to know that fully. A lot of times we float right past Advent and go to Easter. But not today. Today we focus on the divine intersection of God and man, of the eternal and the temporary. Colossians 1:15-20 fmhouston.com

Ken remembers the playground teeter-totter from being a childhood - the use it was designed for, and the way it was used for chaos instead. But it captures how many times unity feels so close to us - we can almost touch it, and yet we can’t. Ken mourns that teeter-totters are mostly gone now. Because there’s a joy in watching a child wait for someone to join them, to create community together, and...

As we continue through our series on the Apostles’ Creed, Ken wants to give us some perspective today. Depending what we’re going through, our world is small or kinda big. And the world can get so big that it overpowers us, and we lose hope. Astronauts see the world from space, and it changes the way they interact with it for the rest of their lives. There’s something profound that happens if we a...

When Ken was studying scripture in seminary, he had a professor who would always turn him back to the text. “Let it be fresh. Read it again.” So Ken asks us to take the story of the Prodigal Son and read it again, and let it be fresh. Because it’s an easy story to miss the boat on. It’s not the story of a son - it’s the story of two sons, and of a father. Of selfishness, and self-righteousness. An...

When Jesus meets with Nicodemus, he is stuck. He sees who Jesus is, but he can’t get past the practical and see what’s really happening. That’s our challenge, too. God hasn’t just moved, he is MOVING, he is here and now WITH us. And our invitation to that is through His Son. God is calling us to look out into the world and recognize that we’ve been given a foundation. We can look out into the worl...

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This is Ascension Sunday and Senior Sunday, and Ken finds some similarity between the two. Graduating high school closes a chapter, but it’s not an end - it’s the beginning of something else. When Jesus returned from the dead, the disciples thought he would restore Israel, but instead, he’s suddenly gone, like David Blaine. The disciples are left stranded, sure that this is suddenly the end. But t...

Ken considers an unexciting day of the week, when it’s just another Tuesday, and the world is getting you down. We meet the disciples after Jesus has been resurrected, as they are fishing, believing that the remarkable part of their lives is now over. Because sometimes things don’t end the way you want them to. Sometimes they just end. But sometimes when you think that you’ve been forgotten, you c...

In the story of Doubting Thomas, Ken feels that Thomas gets a bad rap. He’s not asking for anything extra, all he asks for is what everyone else already got. He wants the same resurrection experience as everyone else. “How many times in the life of our faith do we feel like everyone else is experiencing a resurrection life, and we are missing out?” John 20:19-31 fmhouston.com

What dwells in your heart? Seriously, ask yourself that question today. Sometimes it feels like we’re just playing 20 Questions with ourselves to figure out who we really are. Luke 24:36-48 fmhouston.com

The distance between Good Friday and Easter is waiting for us, because we know the end. But for the disciples and Jesus’ followers, it was just pain and loss. But when they get to the tomb, they don’t find what they were looking for. Their plans of grieving are interrupted by by an amazing Word of God. Luke 24:1-12 fmhouston.com

What sticks out to today’s core value to Ken is the word “prayer.” But that’s a word that can cause a bit of a freak out. It’s the thing that we talk about all the time - and also the thing we DON’T want to talk about in depth. Mark 10:35-45 fmhouston.com

Jesus was asked ‘Are you the one who is to come, or should we expect someone else?’ His answer to that question creates a guide for this week’s core value: what it means to embody Christ. Luke 7:18-23 fmhouston.com

Ken has a problem with today’s passage - legitimately! Not with what Jesus says, but with how the church has used those words. Luke 6:27-38 fmhouston.com

For a while, the buzzword within churches was “community” - now it’s “authentic.” In both cases, it’s an admission of things the church has lost. Luke 11:33-42; 12:1-3 fmhouston.com

Ken looks to one of the most popular section of the Bible as he reads 1 John. The world that we live in doesn’t seem to be very hostile to the idea of a god that is love. But what does that mean? 1 John 4:7-21 fmhouston.com

What does it mean to have transformed lives? Sometimes it feels like we’re just playing 20 Questions with ourselves to see what’s dwelling in our heart. Colossians 1:3-14 fmhouston.com

Ken introduces the church’s new mission statement, and begins a multi-week process of breaking it down piece by piece. fmhouston.com

Ken starts the New Year by opening some presents from the congregation, though they have some warnings to them. fmhouston.com

Ken decides to tell the familiar story of Christmas in a new way, since we sometimes have a hard time living into what we're reading. To help us embody the story, he starts off a little differently: "so there's some dudes hanging out in a field." The tone is light, but Ken has some things on his mind this Christmas. He wants us to recognize the importance of where the Messiah's birth was announce....

Today's message concerns two different encounters with angels - one in which the visited couldn't come to terms with the idea that the truth might be different than what he'd always known, and one where they accepted the vision God had for them unquestioningly. fmhouston.com