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Christians have different ways of talking about the death Jesus and the cross. There is a lot of action and energy around this moment in Jesus’ story. In this teaching George talked about the mystery of it all while exploring the history of theories the church has held in trying to explain it.

Sarah explores how Jesus’ healing presence transforms lives, not by returning to the past, but by growing into new wholeness. Drawing from biblical wisdom, the 12 Steps, and personal experience, she emphasizes taking action towards healing, rather than passively waiting for time to heal wounds. The story of the man at the pool of Bethesda (John 5:6-9) illustrates how Jesus meets us in our powerles...

This is a conversation George had with his friends Seth Abram and Anna Bryant of Restore , and Jason Adam Miller of South Bend City Church, discussing how faith and mental health can be powerful companions on the journey of healing and fully living. Most of us have experienced events in our lives that require healing. It's completely normal. These experiences often call for healing journeys, where...

Jesus is tempted for 40 days in the wilderness by the voice of diabolos to give up his God-given identity spoken by the voice of divine love. Jesus was able to listen to each of these voices and knew he was rooted in the security and peace of divine love that was deeper than any other aim or attempt at significance, meaning, or strength. It is the genius of Jesus. And of us, too, if we can come to...

Lent invites us to slow down and create space for soul-searching, thoughtfulness, and reflection. Lent also wakes us up to this extraordinary, sacred, holy miracle of our existence. George and Seth Abram lead us in a meaningful and reflective liturgy, inviting people to engage in a process of penitence and healing. This practice emphasizes honesty and vulnerability—acknowledging the brokenness we...

George and Jarrod wrap up the BIBLE series (for now, this is only the beginning of the conversation) by discussing some of the questions our community has asked them.  We’ve been covering a lot of ground in our BIBLE series in very short time frames. To explore more deeply the array of things we have discussed together in community,  here’s a list of Bible reading resources    The church in every...

Jarrod Morris-Breaking down some of the divisions among the Hebrew people in the Bible and asking what it means for us to be Jesus' disciples today.

The Bible can move us much like music does. It's ultimately not about the right answer. It's trying to get us to dance, move around with it, and participate in the flow which is all moving us toward Jesus. SLIDE GEORGE READ IN OUR GATHERING : "It is Jesus in fact that you seek when you dream of happiness; he is waiting for you when nothing else you find satisfies you; he is the beauty to which you...

 The church in every generation must make fresh and rejuvenated efforts to understand scripture and continue to raise questions of it in their own time and place. — N.T. Wright, Scripture and The Authority of God Someone who holds a high view of scripture approaches scripture with a deep appreciation for its history and the way God has spoken and continues to speak through it. That person recogniz...

Your very lives are a letter that anyone can read by just looking at you. Christ himself wrote it—not with ink, but with God’s living Spirit; not chiseled into stone, but carved into human lives—and we publish it.  2 Corinthians 3:2-5 The Message Bible

Jarrod Morris - Historical, cultural, geographic, and linguistic contexts matter in how we read and understand the Bible. We are going to spend some weeks exploring our relationship to this sacred book and how this ancient library of poems, letters, and stories can transform our lives and offer wisdom for a modern world. We understand the Bible as the unfolding story of humanity’s growing comprehe...

We trust the Bible as it points us to Jesus. We are going to spend some weeks exploring our relationship to this sacred book and how this ancient library of poems, letters, and stories can transform our lives and offer wisdom for a modern world. We understand the Bible as the unfolding story of humanity’s growing comprehension of who God is, who we are, and what our role is in creation. It is the...

Christmas Eve at the Bellevue Community Center

Jarrod Morris invites us into some practices of joy this Advent season.

George invites us into the practice of Advent this Christmas season as a way of keeping time that forms us toward love, God, healing, and growth. The art pieces George referenced in this teaching can be found online: The Peaceable Kingdom - Edward Hicks & The Peaceable Kingdom With Two Olives - Will Bullas.

George invites us into the practice of Advent this Christmas season as a way of keeping time that forms us toward love, God, healing, and growth.

Has Christianity lost its cultural voice? If that were true, how might it be regained? Let's do some Bible 101. When the Bible speaks of church or community, it uses the beautiful phrase  Allēlōn —the 'one anothers' and 'each others' mentioned often in scripture. This is what it means for people to be filled with God’s Spirit.

Many of us are drawn by the beauty of Jesus' life and words. One often underrated and overlooked quality is a genuine affection for the character demonstrated throughout his life. Two words summarize that for us: grace and peace. George taught about how we can reclaim the beauty and power of these words in how we live. SLIDES GEORGE READ IN OUR GATHERING Walk joyfully on the earth and respond to t...

The heart has its reasons which reason does not know. We feel it in a thousand things. It is the heart which experiences God, and not the reason. This, then, is faith; God felt by the heart, not by reason. — Blaise Paschal  Blessed are the pure in heart for they will see God. —Matthew 5:8 Blessing For A Soft Heart Blessed are you who see it all now—the beautiful, terrible truth that our world, our...

Jarrod Morris - compares our current political climate and upcoming presidential election to the story of Jonah. We get to see how we are supposed to act by knowing God‘s character and not through Jonah’s actions.

George wrapped up our series of ‘When in Romans’ teaching from chapter 15. For Paul, his entire imagination has been reshaped by Christ. So, he reinterprets everything thru Jesus naming some of what being Christian looks like.  SLIDES GEORGE READ IN OUR GATHERING  Guiding Thoughts for this Election Season To divide the body of Christ over politics is a grievous sin. The bottom line for political p...

George explores some passages in Romans 13 about governing authorities being established by God and why that might create challenges for us. God may grant and establish authority but that doesn't mean he approves of how it's being used. SLIDES GEORGE READ IN OUR GATHERING No good comes to the cause of the gospel is we are regarded as crazy dissidents who won’t co-cooperate with the most basic of s...

George explored Paul's claim that the power that raised Christ lives in us too (Romans 8:11) . How can we take seriously the idea that this actual presence, this gift of God's life, is with us right now? Perhaps through the sacred and holy act of breathing. SLIDE GEORGE READ IN OUR GATHERING If whatever God has made and loves is holy, then life is holy in itself, and to live life with love and joy...

When we individualize sin and weaponize it with shame, we forget that the heart of sin is a breakdown in relationship—with God, with each other, with creation. Just as the failure of one meant the failure of all, so now the life of one means we can all make something of our lives. (Romans 5:12-19). Talking about sin in a cosmic frame locates our human struggles in a bigger cosmic story, inviting u...

Jesus didn’t come to solve a problem;  he came to reveal the true nature of God as Love.  George explores Romans 5 and being justified by faith, which means trusting more and more deeply in God’s grace, generosity, and love given to us before the creation of the world. Paul called this being “In Christ!” This grounds Christianity in a restorative love and freedom from the very beginning; it create...