Blessing from Wrestling
Summary: Jacob’s wrestling match with God planted the seeds of love in him, and that led to the possibility of experiencing reconciliation with his brother Esau. Like Jacob, God’s love and grace enable us to…
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Stairways to Heaven and Sacred Journeys
Image: Jacob’s Dream by Marc Chagall Summary: Jacob’s deceiving of his father Isaac and his brother Esau forced him to flee his family and embark on a long journey. While on that journey, he…
Baptism, Anabaptism, and Living Towards Christ
Speaker: Caleb Schrock-Hurst Bible Passages: Luke 3:15-17, 21-22 Summary: Baptism is one of the most important rites of the church, and it has been interpreted in a variety of ways through church history. How should we…
Walk the Walk
Speaker: Caleb Schrock-Hurst Bible Passages: James 1:19-27; 2:14-19 Summary: We can’t just talk the talk — we need to walk the walk. Going through an acrostic, we talk about how we can live out our lives…
Living Stones: Strength, Exile, and a New Peoplehood
Speaker: Caleb Schrock-Hurst Bible Passages: 1 Peter 2:4-12 Summary: The bible — and world — present us with various examples of what faith in God can look like. Surprisingly, God’s people were exiled from their homeland…
The Beauty in Deconstruction
Speaker: Pastor Stephen “Tig” Intagliata Bible Passage: Mark 2:23-28; 3:1-6 Summary: We could say that Jesus’ teachings–as seen in the Sermon on the Mount and in his encounters with religious leaders– deconstructed the teachings…
Discerning, Serving, and Trusting
Speaker: Caleb Schrock-Hurst Bible Passages: Ephesians 5 Summary: In this chapter of Ephesians, after calling us to unity in the previous chapter, Paul emphasizes our need to discern God’s will in our lives, as we grow in…
Afraid, Yet Filled With Joy
Speaker: Caleb Schrock-Hurst Bible Passages: Matthew 28:1-10 Summary: Easter and Christmas are the two indispensable Christian holidays, locked together like the chicken and the egg. But we shouldn’t dispel the mystery at the heart of Easter —…
Pondering While We Wait
Speaker: Caleb Schrock-Hurst Bible Passages: Luke 2 Summary: Christmas is such a commercialized holiday that every year we should bring things back to their roots — during Advent and Christmas, we practice waiting. As we wait,…
Hope
Someone has said that hope is like oxygen to the soul—we need hope in order to survive. Too often, the things that we hope for don’t materialize, and we are left disappointed or even…
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