Blue Ocean Church Ann Arbor Sunday Sermons

Progress, not perfection is the path to sanity. Like the U.S. Constitution, we start off with flaws that can only be corrected by amendments. Making amends, step by step. Ken Wilson brings us the next installment in our sermon series with, “The 12 Steps for Anyone: On Amend-Making (Steps 7–9).” Learn more about Blue Ocean Faith, including service times and locations, at a2blue.org.

Christine Modey, leader from St Clares and President of the Genesis board (our facility hosts) shares the interfaith vision that made a place for Blue Ocean Faith—yet another expression of abiding in God’s love. Learn more about Blue Ocean Faith, including service times and locations, at a2blue.org.

AA is a part of a change-is-possible spirituality that dates back to Abraham, called to follow a Higher Power to a land he hadn’t heard of. Steps 4, 5, and 6 help us face the things about ourselves that contribute to our misery. For that, we need a little help from our friends, a culture where people deal with their own stuff. Ken Wilson brings us the third sermon in our series, “The 12 Steps for Anyone.” Learn more about Blue Ocean Faith, including service times and locations, at a2blue.org.

Guest speaker Molly Morton shares her personal struggles with deprecating self-talk, and misguided views of God, in “The Power of Stories: Participating in God’s Story, and Letting God Reshape Ours.” Learn more about Blue Ocean Faith, including service times and locations, at a2blue.org.

Ken Wilson gives the second sermon in our series, “The 12 Steps for Anyone: How to Say More-with-Less About God (Steps 1–3).” The genius of AA: helping us with things that have us beat, without beating us further with moralistic finger-wagging—that only makes things worse—beginning with the surprising power of letting go, or “relaxing into God.” Learn more about Blue Ocean Faith, including service times and locations, at a2blue.org.

We’ve all been affected by AA: Think: easy does it, one step at a time, keep it simple stupid. In our new sermon series we’ll look at the movement that produced the steps, and why steps are more important than beliefs and rules. Ken Wilson introduces the series with, “The 12 Steps for Anyone: How Alcoholics Anonymous Changed the Spiritual Landscape for Everyone.” Learn more about Blue Ocean Faith, including service times and locations, at a2blue.org.

When your faith makes the feel-bad worse, it may be the shadow-gospel, not the real thing. Jesus lived under the shadow of moral suspicion his whole life, and his message is all about defending the accused, not intensifying their distress. Ken Wilson declares the (real) good news of the gospel in our Easter Sunday message, “The Gospel for Eddie & Tom.” Learn more about Blue Ocean Faith, including service times and locations, at a2blue.org.

We all need people to look up to. A person is often revealed in spontaneous moments, chance interactions, like these three from the gospel of John in the run up to Palm Sunday. Ken Wilson helps us prepare for Holy Week in the sixth sermon of our series,“Prayer: The Shaping of Desire.” Learn more about Blue Ocean Faith, including service times and locations, at a2blue.org.

Emily Swan shares from her personal experiences about the value of prayer in connecting to her true self, in the fifth week of our sermon series,“Prayer: The Shaping of Desire.” Learn more about Blue Ocean Faith, including service times and locations, at a2blue.org.

In week four of our sermon series,“Prayer: The Shaping of Desire,” Ken Wilson shares how he learned to calm himself after developing anxiety—employing 4 daily practices. Learn more about Blue Ocean Faith, including service times and locations, at a2blue.org.