Unbound
Reflection on the story of Lazarus from John 11 and the Lazarus Effect spreading across Sub-Saharan Africa. How is God calling you to come out? To unbind others? To be unbound?
Man Born Blind
This week’s message weaves the story of the man born blind from John 9 with a responsive prayer by Steve Garnaas-Holmes, the singing of Amazing Grace led by Nicole Cleveland on vocals, and reflections on the story by Matt Smith.
Seen | Known | Loved
This week’s worship focuses on the encounter between Jesus and the Samaritan woman at the well (John 4).
Making Sense of the Cross
This message explores John 3.16 in relationship to Jesus’ encounter with Nicodemus at night. The biblical text is held in converation with the controversy over the faithfulness of Rob Bell’s understanding of salvation in Love Wins. What has the cross meant to followers of Jesus through the centuries? What might the cross mean to you today?
Beginning the Lenten Journey
We begin our Lenten journey toward the cross with a reflection on Matthew 4.1-11.
Mardi Gras Worship
We celebrate faith, community, and our love of God with the sounds of jazz on the final Sunday before we enter Lent and journey together toward the cross. Reading from Psalm 150.
Some of the finest jazz musicians in town. I’ll Fly Away | Just a Closer Walk with Thee | When the Saints Go Marching In | and more…
Love God: Word | Witness
United Methodists practice spiritual disciplines in the hope of growing and staying in love with God. This worship series explores six ways we grow in faith through spritual disciplines. Today’s message focuses on Word & Witness.
Love God: Prayer | Fasting
United Methodists practice spiritual disciplines in the hope of growing and staying in love with God. This worship series explores six ways we grow in faith through spritual disciplines. Today’s message focuses on Prayer & Fasting.
Toward Koinonia
Toward Koinonia is a five week series on Christian Community. Koinonia is an ancient Greek word for intimate community. The final message for this series focuses on Matthew 5:13-20 and the call to Koinonia in our own context.
Toward Koinonia (4 of 5)
Toward Koinonia is a five week series on Christian Community. Koinonia is an ancient Greek word for intimate community. In our first three weeks we explored Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King’s vision of Beloved Community, an interracial farm in Georgia in the 1940’s called Koinonia Farm, and Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s underground seminary during the rise of Hitler in Germany. This week’s message focuses on expressions of Koinonia in new United Methodist communities of faith throughout the country.
Dear Anne Rice,
What might people of faith learn from folks who are Spiritual But Not Religious? What might our Christian tradition have to say to folks who’ve left “religion” in search of someting “spiritual”?
Are You There God?
Wrestling with the Divine (Part 1 of 4):
The story of Jacob from Genesis is held in conversation with Michael Krasny’s Spiritual Envy & Judy Blume’s Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret.
