Sunday August 19 we start a new sermon series called Beginnings and Endings that will continue through November up until Advent. Here’s a little of what it’s all about: We’ve inherited a lot of assumptions about how it all began and how it will all end.…
Lament as Mission in the Suburbs
“Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people.“ – Karl Marx
Learning to Parent from Jesus’ Father
Two times the Father speaks audibly to the Son, each before the Son was to endure great suffering (Baptism – Matt 3, Mount of Transfiguration – Matt 17), both times saying the same thing. Did he give him a pep talk? Threaten him with punishment…
Discipleship is About Telling a Better Story Why We Keep Needing the Gospel
Rory Sutherland recounts in a TED Talk the story of how potatoes were introduced to 18th Century Prussian peasants in what is modern day Germany. Frederick the Great wanted to bring potatoes to Prussia because at the time the only source of carbohydrates was wheat.…
