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Why wouldn’t God find or use a different option than a horrendous death for his Son? Jesus’ Death is best understood not as God demanding payment through violence, but as the consequence of Jesus’ radical life of love, forgiveness, and justice confronting the powers of his day, revealing the self-giving love of God. The cross and resurrection invite us to trust in God’s unconditional love, leave b...

The Bible is a diverse collection of writings that invites a lifetime of thoughtful study, requiring attention to genre, historical context, and the perspectives of its authors. Rather than reading it as a flat, static, dropped-out-of-heaven-from-God book, we are reading it more faithful when we make room for the human experience of the writers in its composition. Christians ultimately interpret S...

This conversation explored how politics and faith can both serve the common good—politics by organizing our shared life and religion by bringing people together. Centered on the teaching of Jesus, George emphasized that while ideas and information matter, lasting transformation come through love and peacemaking that treats others with dignity. Peacemakers are people who enter life’s conflicts carr...

This conversation explores honest questions about God, heaven, and life after death, presenting God not as a doctrine to master but as the love, grace, and goodness that draw us toward deeper humanity. Heaven is described less as a distant destination and more as God's renewing presence breaking into the world now—experienced whenever we forgive, love, seek justice, and participate in bringing God...

The resurrection of Jesus is not just about life after death but about a new reality beginning now—one where love, forgiveness, and restoration reshape how we live and relate to others. Through Jesus’ gracious restoration of Peter in John 21, we see how death and redemptive violence no longer have the final word because Christ has inaugurated a new way of being human. As a result, followers of Jes...

Debbie Stull-This reflection uses the surprising cultural phenomenon of Buc-ee's as a doorway into a deeper conversation about exhaustion, distraction, and the human longing for true rest. By comparing road trips, social media, and modern life, it argues that while we often seek stimulation, what our souls actually need is relief, restoration, presence, and Sabbath. Ultimately, it points us to...

If you celebrate Christ's resurrection only one day a year, we may be missing something really BIG. The end of Matthew's gospel invites us into the meaning and wonder of it all. At the heart of this story is the belief that in Jesus' resurrection a new world is being brought into existence and we are invited to participate in it "as we go' about our daily lives.

Kendal Beard-Following his resurrection Jesus introduces us to a different kind of power, no grandiose exit from the tomb or dramatic appearance but a presence that wants to walk, talk and eat with us, a steady, faithful, consistent power that sustains and gives life. 

As we continue to explore resurrectional life on the other side of Easter Sunday, George explored some questions from our community about the resurrection stories in the Bible, teaching us to practice holding doubt and faith together in the same way they are held in the scripture.

This episode explores how doubt and faith work together (Thomas’ honest response), and the need for communities that hold questions with compassion as we move toward living unafraid. Eastertide’s 50 days celebrate the resurrection as a life-changing, joy-filled reality of Jesus’ presence with us which invites us to live consciously, deeply, and meaningfully as we learn to practice resurrection dai...

George introduced us to the practice of Paschaltide, which is a period of unmitigated joy celebrated in many churches around the world during the “fifty days OF Easter.” Easter and Jesus’ resurrection are more than just a historical event we talk about on one Sunday each year; they are a daily, actionable way of life for us to live into.

Easter is about what it means to be human—for everyone. And asks the question: "What is the better way to live?" Because resurrection says that what we do with our lives now matters. *SONG CREDIT: "Wait" by Matt Maher

Lee Beard teaches us from John 12 about what the people of Israel were expecting of Jesus and how we also bring our own expectations to Jesus sometimes leading to disappointment.

The biblical story is portrayed as a continual journey—of wandering, searching, leaving, and returning—where faith is an ongoing pilgrimage of the heart rather than loyalty to a fixed shrine. Drawing on Abraham Joshua Heschel’s idea in God in Search of Man, George suggest that God is actively seeking humanity, patiently respecting human freedom while waiting for our return. In Gospel of Luke chapt...

Jesus, in  Luke 4 , returns to his hometown and reveals a vision of God centered on inclusion, compassion, and transformation rather than vengeance, even omitting violent language from his own sacred scripture and simplifying religious law to focus on love. When Jesus points out that God has historically helped outsiders and enemies, his hometown rejects him because it challenges their narrow unde...

Kendal Beard's teaching this Sunday explored Jesus' holy curiosity as a child to listen and ask questions of the teachers in the temple.

Our Temptation is to think that knowing ourselves is unimportant in knowing God. But from the earliest days of the church, Knowing God and Knowing Self are interdependent. This is ancient Christian understanding. In this teaching, George lead us in some observations of Luke 4 to see what we can discover about our most authenthic selves from Jesus' own initiation and forty days of wandering in the...

Does the spiritual life look like an arrow that points up and to the right? Or does it look more like following a winding course & exploring a non-linear path that looks a lot like wandering. In this Lenten season, we are being invited to a kind of wandering that moves us toward God and the gift of being more fully ourselves as we explore Jesus’ own wandering journey of forty days in the wilde...

The letter to the Ephesians offers a sweeping vision of God’s plan for the world—revealing Jesus, redefining humanity, and forming an “impossible” community rooted and established in love. In  Ephesians 3:16–19 , Paul prays that believers would grasp the depth of Christ’s love, because history moves forward not by violent revolution or slow evolution alone, but through a new Spirit-formed people w...

A new year invites us to return to the heart and to a “lessening” that strips away excess so we can rediscover who we are becoming in Christ rather than what we achieve. Drawing on Ephesians and Galatians, it centers on grace as the core of the gospel—being loved exactly as we are—and calls us to interpret what God is like through the life of Jesus, in whom salvation means union with God; to heal,...

Early Christian reflection centers on the conviction that  “in Christ”  every thing is being held together. Rooted in God’s love and articulated in texts like Ephesians, we get a bird's-eye-view of God, the world, Jesus, the church, the meaning of salvation, and what it means to be genuinely human. And this vision affirms that our essential nature is found not in religious markers or achieveme...

Live recording of the reflection and candle-lighting part of our Christmas Eve gathering at Dream Streets in Nashville, TN. May your hearts be full and your days be long filled with the light and love of Christ Merry Christmas to you all SLIDE GEORGE READ IN OUR GATHERING “We want life to have meaning, we want fulfillment, healing, but the human paradox is that we find these things by starting whe...

The Christmas story announces a new kind of joy rooted in the reality of hope and imagination, not power or coercion: a Savior born who redefines lordship through love, humility, and peace rather than violence or control. In a world that proclaimed Caesar as savior and lord, Jesus’ birth offered a new gospel that asked who truly holds divine power and who is really making a better world. This stor...

Joy is the response to the gift that is life. This Advent invitation calls us to reclaim joy as a daily choice and a gift from God that makes life worth living. In this teaching George continues a conversation on the nature and obstacles of joy. HERE'S SOME NEWS: Scientific studies are discovering that joy leads to success, not the other way around. This is precisely why the Christmas story is goo...

From its very beginning, Christianity has been the proclamation of joy as read in the Christmas story of the gospel of Luke. Joy is a spacious way of seeing the world—one that embraces the full, messy, beautiful fabric of human experience. It stands in sharp contrast to cynicism, which shrinks and distorts life, while joy ennobles it, rooted in the belief that we are deeply loved by God. In the Ch...