When you and I think about who we are, we often think about where we come from. Our sense of self is shaped by our family of origin, the city where we grew up, and our ethnic background. The same is true for Jesus. He...
When you and I think about who we are, we often think about where we come from. Our sense of self is shaped by our family of origin, the city where we grew up, and our ethnic background. The same is true for Jesus. He...
This past Sunday, John preached on the connection between what we believe to be good, right, just, and beautiful and the way we engage politically. John encouraged us to engage politically from a place of faith in Christ. Here are quotes, resources and recommended reading...
On June 4th, we kicked off our summer sermon series, Becoming Whole. During this series, John is defining wholeness as an undivided, integrated life. We are considering what it means to be broken -- or what happens when our public, exterior life is divided from...
On June 4th, we kicked off our summer sermon series, Becoming Whole. During this series, John is defining wholeness as an undivided, integrated life. We are considering what it means to be broken -- or what happens when our public, exterior life is divided from...
On June 4th, we kicked off our summer sermon series, Becoming Whole. During this series, John is defining wholeness as an undivided, integrated life. We are considering what it means to be broken -- or what happens when our public, exterior life is divided from...
On June 4th, we kicked off our summer sermon series, Becoming Whole. During the sermon John defined wholeness as an undivided, integrated life. Throughout this series we are considering what it means to be broken -- or what happens when our public, exterior life is...
Our guest speaker, Touger Thao, preached this sermon on 6/25/17. “For most of us the Wall appears through a crisis that turns our world upside down. It comes, perhaps, through a divorce, a job loss, the death of a close friend or family member, a cancer...
“The story of Adam and Eve is our story. Like them, we have looked around at the garden with which we have been placed and claimed, ‘This just isn’t enough.’ As creatures who mistake ourselves for gods, we judge the Creator’s work too slow or...
In this week's podcast, John explores the power of shame to perpetuate the divided life. Because shame is the result of a ruptured relationship when we experience shame, we hide our true selves from the world to avoid further rejection. Here are some quotes from...