Oct 31, 2019
In this sermon we begin with the feeling that many of us have no idea where to begin when it comes to neighboring. We consider the two movements of neighboring (from strangers to acquaintances to relationship), how neighboring is about looking for opportunity to connect beginning the smallest ways, how we’re wired as...
Oct 23, 2019
In this sermon we look at how neighboring makes us reconsider our sense of time, as well as face up to our fears. We talk about not harvesting all of our time, how fear leads to missed opportunities, neural pathways and synapses, how many times Jesus was interrupted, and one of my favorite Kurt Vonnegut essays.
Oct 15, 2019
In this sermon we begin a new series called “Neighboring” where we talk about the Greatest Commandment, the map challenge, the basics of local community, naming the tensions and fears, the Rublev Trinity icon, neighboring as participating in the divine, and a different kind of bucket challenge.
Oct 9, 2019
In this sermon we tell the story of the Rio Olympics Bay clean up controversy and how they turned trash into art, Jesus’ arrival into Jerusalem and the ensuing conflict, the Sabbath way of life as justice and compassion, a woman who gave more than should have, and why the rejected stone is vindicated.
Oct 2, 2019
In this sermon we talk about “the one thing”, why the kingdom belongs to children, how the rich young ruler lost the story, and what’s like to feel the story of God again, with help from the official rule book of Major League Baseball, Kirk Gibson’s famous home run, John Coltrane’s *A Love Supreme*, a painting...