"It is said that the age of a tree can be reckoned by looking at the bsrk - one can also truly know a person's age in the good by the inwardness of the repentance."

- Soren Kierkegaard

“The True Self is not our creation, but God's. It is the self we are in our depths. It is our capacity for divinity and transcendence.” -Sue Monk Kid

"Every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life are based on the labors of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the same measure as I have received and am still receiving." -Albert Einstein

Old Testament: 1 Samuel 1:1-19 (Link to text: https://bible.oremus.org/?ql=603295174)

New Testament: Luke 18:1-8 (Link to text: https://bible.oremus.org/?ql=603295198)

Sermon: Self Advocacy

Scott Starbuck

Focus: “It keeps our hearts chasing after God's heart. It's how we bother God, and how God bothers us back. There's nothing that works any better than that.” -Barbara Brown Taylor

Scripture Readings

Jill Cathey

Old Testament: Deuteronomy 15:7-11 (Link to text: https://bible.oremus.org/?ql=603295429)

New Testament: Luke 16:1-13 (Link to text: https://bible.oremus.org/?ql=603295453)

Sermon: Heavy Realism

Scott Starbuck

Focus: “Perfect is the enemy of good.” -Voltaire

"I am a human being, not a human doing." - Kurt Vonnegut

"A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new." -Albert Einstein

“Storms of every sort, torrents, earthquakes, cataclysms, 'convulsions of nature,' etc., however mysterious and lawless at first sight they may seem, are only harmonious notes in the song of creation, varied expressions of God's love.” -John Muir

“If you want to go quickly, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.” 

– African Proverb

The goal of our lives is not simply self agency or mastery but even more surrender to and embrace of God's will and being.