Sunday, November 1
Jesus talks about money more than almost anything else, not to shame people but because how a person handles money shapes who they are becoming. The sermon holds up greed as a spiritual danger and generosity as the kingdom way, and asks what a life of faithful stewardship looks like.
Sunday, October 25
On its 25th anniversary the church pauses to tell the stories of what God has done among them, not to live in the past but to catch the rhythm of where God is moving next. Remembering is meant to send a people forward into hope, healing and wholeness.
Sunday, October 18
The sermon wrestles with what artificial intelligence is doing to our sense of belonging, purpose and community, and it holds up the greatest commandment as the counter-narrative to a world built on efficiency, optimization and growth at all costs.
Sunday, October 11
A conversation about what artificial intelligence is, where it came from, and what it is doing to our formation as humans and as a church, held with the hope that we do not have to walk into it alone.
Sunday, October 4
Jesus gives his disciples a short, repeatable prayer that reorients a whole life toward God: honoring his name, aligning with his kingdom, trusting him for daily provision, releasing others as we have been released, and asking to be kept from trial.
Sunday, September 27
Jesus welcomed into Martha's home names Mary's choice to sit at his feet as the better part, and the sermon hears that as a call to a countercultural life of practicing God's presence rather than performing for him.
Sunday, September 20
Jesus tells three parables about lost things found and a Father who throws a party, and ends the story with an older brother standing outside refusing to come in, because the invitation to the feast is for the ones who think they don't need it too.
Sunday, September 13
Community is something we are, not an event we attend, and it asks us to both give ourselves away and let ourselves be carried. The paralyzed man's friends tore open a roof to put him in front of Jesus, and Jesus saw their faith.
Sunday, September 6
Jesus keeps getting invited to dinner and keeps rearranging the seating: the table belongs to the host who invites people who cannot pay him back, and everyone who comes has to be willing to become more like him there.
Sunday, August 23
Jesus turns the crowd's opinions into a personal question, and the answer he wants is not church attendance but a life that shows who he is. Brenda Salter McNeil tells how a dorm-room friend's witness moved her from going to church to being the church.