3rd December 2023

Too Deep For Words: Freedom

What if, in a time of preparation, we could expose the places where we may not be doing all we could? If penitence is merely to show regret - a recognition of a fruitless longing, could we redeem it? Could we allow this time - and what comes after - to be more fulfilling?

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15th October 2023

The Stewardship of Community

9th July 2023

Consider It All Joy...

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2nd July 2023

Free(ing) Joy

...the man on the side of the road was always going to be healed. The story Jesus tells us reminds us of this: the promise of God has always been that God would bind the hearts of the brokenhearted, the ones on the margins, the ones who have had violence done upon them and bear its scars.

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11th June 2023

Unhiding Joy: When We Least Expect It

We're beginning our first summer series on joy. How might we find ways to hide joy from ourselves? We'll explore that today.

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21st May 2023

Keep On Keepin' On

We come to our graduation Sunday today. What does it mean to be at a mountain top moment? Do we stay there, or do we keep on?

Medium • 20th May 2023

In Other Words: Reading Matthew 22:39

An Exegesis on Matthew 22:39.

14th May 2023

Embodying The Artist's Intent

When was the last time you had an artist explain their work of art to you? How were you changed? How did the art change for you? Can the same happen with our faith?

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Medium • 12th May 2023

On Love’s Hidden Life: Do We Believe In Love?

To experience a God who is not love and will not love solely based on our ability to intellectually and semantically process that love is not a God worth worshipping.

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Medium • 9th May 2023

Working Through “Works of Love”

With summer just around the corner, I’ve begun my summer studies, focusing on a series of books related to Existentialism and language. The first: Soren Kierkegaard’s Works of Love.

The plan is to walk through the book, identify particular quotations and expound on them. This acts in part as my on commentaries on the texts, but also (hopefully) as a place where we can act as conversation partners.

Not read Kierkegaard or Works of Love? Here are a couple videos to help you:

7th May 2023

Way. Truth. Life.

We have a difficult combination of texts today - the stoning of Stephen, Jesus preparing in heaven. How might these texts tell us the story of perseverance in love?

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30th April 2023

An Embodied Community

Have you noticed how different our shows treat family? These aren't the days of Steve Urkel and "Cut. It. Out."

But what is it saying about our sense of community? Can we grasp it anymore? Does it require supernatural abilities? We'll tackle that today.

23rd April 2023

An Embodied Doubt

Our companions here are dealing with a spiritual gauntness that has manifested into every part of themselves - this is an embodied doubt.

16th April 2023

Doubting The Doubts of Doubt

We're gonna doubt the doubts on doubt today, y'all.

9th April 2023

Seedlings: Easter Sunday 2023

Have you managed to start your garden yet? There's a lot of work the first year, but there's so much that changes in the years after - the seeds even tell the story of the past but the promise of the future!

What is Easter, then? A harvest, or a new seed? We'll explore that today.

5th March 2023

Considering The Source

Have you ever played Telestrations? Or gone out backpacking and needed to find fresh water? If so, you know it's important to get as close to source as possible in order to get things right.

So it's the same today. We'll explore what it means to consider the source, and to get close to it - even if it happens to move on us.

26th February 2023

Clearing The Stream: Lent 2023

How do we think through Lent? How do we set our intentions for this time? We unpack that today as we how Jesus walks through the wildnerness journey at the beginning of his ministry.

12th February 2023

Jesus, Immanuel, Forever Going Deeper

5th February 2023

Jesus, Immanuel, Forever Remaining

Did you wake up before sunrise this morning? Did you stumble in the dark, or did you reach for a light?

In a world that seems to prefer stumbling in darkness, we discuss what it means to be light.

29th January 2023

Jesus, Immanuel, Forever Redefining

22nd January 2023

Jesus, Immanuel, Forever Gathering

15th January 2023

Jesus, Immanuel, Forever Curious

8th January 2023

Jesus, Immanuel, Forever

We kick off our Epiphanytide series "Jesus, Emmanuel, Forever." If our New Years texts invite us to do the present work, how do we feel secure and ask the right questions? The texts today remind us it's a never-tiring Jesus who frames our safety and security. The question remains: what if the church asked if they truly lived out Jesus' call?

1st January 2023

Reflections on the New Year