Sep 30, 2021
In this sermon we reflect on the story of Abraham’s call, of what it means to be way in over our heads, how God put’s God’s own reputation on the line for the sake of creation’s restoration, and a story about how a bunch of strangers made a lonely man not feel so lonely.
Sep 21, 2021
In this sermon we look at an array of passages in order to reflect on how the ancient Hebrew people came to reflect on the relationship between God and creation. We talk about what these passages tell us about God, about humanity, and about how stories functioned for them not to capture events in history but in order to...
Sep 15, 2021
In this sermon we look at the struggle of creation to live into the fullness of life, the drama of desire, a Rilke poem, and the worst thing we can do as humans.
Sep 8, 2021
In this sermon we talk about human vocation, God speaking, the nones, the mega-church mentality, competing cultural liturgies, and the reason for our existence.
Sep 1, 2021
In this sermon we start a new series called Origin Stories. We look at the first creation in Genesis not in terms of its relationship to scientific theories about the beginning of all things, but as a story Israel wrote down in exile to be a symbol of stability in a time of great instability.