"migration" Tagged Sermons
We Can’t Go Alone
One of life’s most essential lessons is that we are never meant to go alone. And yet, modern culture pushes us more and more into lonely silos. If Ruth had followed her culture’s norms, she would have gone home to her family of origin after her husband died, but instead, she commits herself to her mother-in-law, Naomi. Together they form a new family and covenant. Ruth and Naomi travel together to Bethlehem at the beginning of the barley harvest, foreshadowing…
Power Is Not Given, It Is Taken
Rev. Rhina Ramos’s message holds her own migration story in conversation with Exodus 5.1-8.
Ruth the Moabite Other
Rev. Dr. Jeffrey Kuan’s message weaves the migration story of Ruth with his own migration story.
Reaching in Love
Matt’s message hold’s Amanda Lindsey Cook’s newly released The New Country in conversation with Jeremiah 29 and Luke 17. As we reflect on ways to deepen our commitments to God and one another, what “new country” might God be calling you toward as you reach in love?
Intercultural Church
Rev. Dr. Safwat Marzouk was our special guest preacher. Safwat’s message is rooted in the story of Joseph (Genesis 37-50) and invites reflection on how reading this story from through lens of migration might embolden the church to become an intercultural community.
Push. Pull.
This is the first week in a four-week worship series on the book of IOur Co-Pastors were abel to study with Rev. Dr. David Vásquez-Levy last winter and this worship series is rooted in his critical reflection on Ruth. Matt’s message on Ruth 1 invites us into the story of Ruth and challenges us to consider who we might be seeing as a stranger, or enemy. Who are we making other, when God sees them as beloved? Worship this morning includes original…