Mar 29, 2020
Ephesians 4:
9-16
Here it is. The famous passage of
St. Paul bidding the church to “speak the truth in love.” How has
the recent pandemic changed how you talk to others? Are you being
honest with yourself, with others, with your kids? It’s not easy
this speaking the truth in love thing and yet Christ
is...
Mar 22, 2020
Luke
15:11-32
When it comes to our own sin and
shame, why do we reject the Pattern of Redemption found in Luke 15?
Do we have some innate desire to pay for our own sin? Some
primordial malfunction that rejects the kind of father Jesus
describes? Maybe it’s just that his character of love is just so
unfathomable to...
Mar 15, 2020
Jonah
1-4
You’ve the exact opposite thing that
God asks you to do. He says run south and you run north. He says
love a people and you hate those people. He says repent and you
keep on sinning. He says preach a sermon and you proclaim the least
amount of information that might draw others toward God.
He...
Mar 8, 2020
2 Kings
5:1-14
We are in a series this spring that
draws on and highlights the patterns of redemption that God has
done throughout history. As bees have patterns in their honeycomb,
so God has ways of restoring and redeeming those who we might think
don’t deserve it. The story of Namaan is one such example.
He...
Mar 1, 2020
Hosea
3:1-5
The story of Hosea and his wife
Gomer, is one of the strangest narratives in all scripture. A
prophet of God is commanded to go and take a wife of harlotry and
bear children with her, even though she is repeatedly unfaithful.
The story is heartbreaking; it’s beautiful; it’s tragic, but most
of all,...