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As we continue in our series on the Upper Room Discourse in John’s Gospel, we come to difficult words from Jesus about conflict and hatred. Looking at Jesus’ words within the language of apocalypse, we see why Jesus uses this language, whom the conflict is between and what this means for us today as people invited to sit around the table with Jesus. Recorded February 18, 2024.
We continue our study of the Last Supper in the Gospel of John where Jesus instructs his disciples and us around the table. This week, we study Jesus words in John 15 , where the God who has made us clean invites us to abide through the practices of confession and repentance. Originally recorded February 11, 2024.
At the Last Supper, Jesus sits down with his disciples to drill into them the most fundamental and important things he wants to remember. This week, we look at a block of Jesus’ teaching that tells us some very important basics: what Jesus offers, how we get it, and how we share it with others. Recorded February 4, 2024.
We continue our journey with Jesus and his disciples around the table in the gospel of John. This week, we look at Jesus' amazing words about the relationships within God of Father, Jesus and Spirit, which the church has called the Trinity. We explore how this relationship is designed to break our brains, how we can know God through Jesus, and how we are faced with an amazing invitation. This teaching included watching a video by the Bible Project, which can be found here. We apologize as the first few verses of the Scripture reading was cut off. Recorded January 28, 2024.
This week we look at Jesus' famous claim that he is "the way, the truth and the life". Through understanding the comfort and challenge of this passage in it's original context, we learn how Jesus might comfort and challenge us as modern and postmodern people. Recorded January 21, 2024.
As we continue in our series on the Last Supper in the gospel of John, this week we begin to focus on Jesus' iconic statement that he is the way, the truth, and the life. We notice that Jesus self-disclosure comes as the answer to Thomas' question and are invited to consider how important our questions might be for our personal and communal relationship with Jesus. Recorded January 14, 2024.
This week we start a new series looking at a unique contribution from John's gospel: the Lord's Supper. We begin by examining Jesus' footwashing in John 13 which challenges us to serve as Jesus did. Recorded January 7, 2024.
As we gathered for a Christmas Eve service, we focused on the word “behold” which occurs several times in Luke’s Gospel. Merry Christmas! Recorded December 24, 2023.
This week, we end our fall series in Genesis 2 and 3 with a focus on the character of Yahweh Elohim. How will Yahweh Elohim respond to human failure - with justice or mercy? Recorded December 19, 2023.
This week, we continue on in our study of Genesis 2 + 3 as we take a final look at the consequences from God’s poem in Genesis 3. By hopping around Genesis 3 and its surrounding narratives, we learn how power struggles between humans, specifically between men and women will sadly become the new normal in a world of sin. Recorded December 10, 2023.
As Advent begins, we continue on in our study of Genesis 2+3 by looking at the conversation between God and the humans who failed the test. As we watch things fall apart between humans and God, humans and each other, and humans and the created world, we learn to wait in the darkness and hope for a King who will come and bring light. Recorded December 3, 2023.
This week, we continue in our study of Genesis 2 and 3 by focusing on the consequences for the man and woman in God’s poem. We see how God intensifies the natural consequence of following the snake, how that spills out onto the woman, the man and all of us today. Recorded November 26, 2023.
This week, we reach the pinnacle of the theme of testing where the humans are faced with the snake at the tree in Genesis 3. As we walk through verses 1-7 together, we learn the nature of testing, how to read the Bible, and the importance of placing our desires in Yahweh Elohim. Recorded November 12, 2023.
We continue in our series in Genesis 2+3 looking at the theme of the test. This week, we deep dive into the character of the snake, a powerful creature who chooses to become a chaos monster, and receive the challenge to see our world as a spiritual place. Recorded November 5, 2023.
As we continue in our series on Genesis 2-3, we now move from the description of the humans to the exploring the theme of testing. In this teaching, we look at two ways the tree was a test for the original hearers of this story and how it may apply in fresh ways for us listening today. Recorded October 29, 2023.
We continue our study of Genesis 2 and 3 and our exploration of what it means to be human. In this teaching, we explore the identity of humans as partners with God and one another, and what this means in a city known for it's loneliness. Recorded October 22, 2023.
In this teaching, we build on the idea from Genesis 2:7 that we are dust and divine breath. This week, we focus on our commonality with creation in our shared dust heritage and what it means that God calls us to serve and keep this world. Originally recorded October 15, 2023.
This week, we continue our study of Genesis 2-3 by looking at verse 7, which describes the human as dirt and divine breath. While, on one hand, this is an amazingly simple definition, it has huge implications for our identities, our bodies and our contingencies. Re-recorded October 8, 2023.
When exploring the first few chapters of Genesis, we’re confronted with many questions as modern readers. This week, we look at what the authors may have been trying to communicate through this ancient literature and how it invites us into the rest of the story of God. This is the second sermon in this series, originally recorded September 24, 2023. Unfortunately, the first sermon was not recorded.
This week we conclude our summer series on the Rule of Life by learning about hospitality. From the story of Zacchaeus, Gareth Jones teaches us about the definitions of hospitality, the stranger and our home to learn to welcome from the story of Jesus. Originally recorded September 3, 2023.
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