Emmaus at Pilot Mill

Slowing Down and Finding Sanctuary 15.11.2020 17:19 ↓

Reflection Questions: 1. What is waiting like for you- what do you feel as you wait? 2. Hans Urs Balthasar writes that sin is rooted in impatience, “Patience is the basic constituent of Christianity.” Do you agree with this view of the central role of patience in the Christian life? Why or why not? 3. How does the liturgical year act as a counterformation to the culture? 4. What are some ways you’...

Email, Diapers, Dishes, & Sacred Work 08.11.2020 18:45 ↓

Reflection Questions: 1. What parts of your job do you most enjoy? Least enjoy? 2. There is no division between the sacred and secular work for believers. How do you see your work life and your worship/spiritual life entwined? How do they influence and shape each other? 3. How would approaching work as a craft and as a place of formation change the way you think about your work? 4. Do you feel lik...

Fighting with Family, Shalom, & Living in Exile 01.11.2020 18:52 ↓

Reflection Questions: 1. In what ways do you struggle to seek peace with those nearest you? 2. What is one way to seek shalom in your home, work, or small sphere of daily experience? 3. How do you see your small sphere and ordinary days as part of the broader mission and work of God’s redemption? 4. In what ways have you experienced speaking good news to each other and becoming good news to each o...

Brushing teeth, the Incarnation and life in body 25.10.2020 20:20 ↓

Reflection Questions: 1. How do you think God’s taking on a human body (incarnation) impacts our worship and life in Christ? 2. “If the church does not teach us what our bodies are for, our culture certainly will.” - Tish Warren. - What does our culture tell us about what our bodies are and what they are for? 3. What does your response to inconveniences or “small” suffering reveal about what you l...

Creation, the good life, and making your bed 18.10.2020 12:14 ↓

Reflection Questions: 1. Tish Warren speaks of making the bed as a way to make “The first activity of our day not as a consumer but that of a collaborator with God,” have you ever thought of bed making this way? Other mundane tasks? 2. Looking at your daily habits what is your vision of the good life? - Are there small, repetitive habits in your day that point you to a particular view of the “good...

Waking, Worship, & Baptism 11.10.2020 15:54 ↓

Reflective questions: 1. How do you normally wake up? Slowly or quickly? Chipper or groggy? 2. In a typical day, what are your first conscious thoughts as you wake? How do those thoughts shape your day? And those days your life? 3. What practical steps might help you recall in your first waking moments that you are beloved and a part of God’s people? * If it is hard for you to believe that you are...

Put on Holy 04.10.2020 23:28 ↓

A teaching on Colossians 3:12-17

What is your Emmaus? 27.09.2020 28:42 ↓

A teaching on Luke 24

Glory Through Tears 30.08.2020 28:01 ↓

A teaching on Luke 19:28-48

Keep Your Eyes on Jesus 09.08.2020 26:37 ↓

A teaching on Luke 17:11-18:8

Growing in the Father's Love 02.08.2020 41:31 ↓

A teaching on Luke 17:1-10

Your Father's Love 19.07.2020 45:59 ↓

A teaching on Luke 15:1-32

Love Woes 28.06.2020 38:54 ↓

Teaching on Luke 11:37-54

How Will You Respond pt 2 21.06.2020 21:22 ↓

Teaching on Luke 11:29-36