Season: Jesus transforming the Habit Cycle

Speaker: Joshua Grace

Location: 2007 Frankford Ave.

About Talk: While wealthy Christians have spent centuries making Jesus’ direction around money to be complex, he speaks pretty plainly about it—especially during the Sermon on the Mount. Treasure is what you’re afraid of losing, heaven is the Reality unfolding right now, and our hearts get displayed by our devotion. We’re going against our programming and socialization when we take steps into a new economic design pattern with Jesus.

Season: Jesus transforming the Habit Cycle

Speaker: Joshua Grace

Location: 2007 Frankford Ave.

About Talk: While wealthy Christians have spent centuries making Jesus’ direction around money to be complex, he speaks pretty plainly about it—especially during the Sermon on the Mount. Treasure is what you’re afraid of losing, heaven is the Reality unfolding right now, and our hearts get displayed by our devotion. We’re going against our programming and socialization when we take steps into a new economic design pattern with Jesus.

Season: You can be a light

Speaker: Gwen White

Location: 2309 N. Broad St.

About Talk: Gwen White focuses on how we all need to get good at giving and receiving apologies. Bad apologies crack relationships. Good apologies can reconnect people who have been separated by hurt. A good apology has three parts: 1) I'm sorry; 2) It was my fault; 3) What can I do to make it right with you? There are psychological reasons that we humans resist apologies, but Jesus is clear about His expectation that we "win one another back" all the time. The goal isn't to assert who is right and who is wrong, but to mend connections, to bring people back together. We all really want good apologies. But they are hard to find. Even more, Jesus tells us that we can forgive others for the hurts they cause us, even when they do not apologize. This process of reflecting on our choices deeply when someone hurts us or is hurt by us can be an opportunity for our growth in understanding ourself and others. But we can't force the process and make it go too quickly. We ought not apologize for things we are not responsible for, but we can use the power of an apology lovingly to understand others and ourselves more deeply with the aim to reconnect. Forgiveness for others comes from our own personal and intimate experience of God forgiving us. Mercy is only possible in this context.

Season: You can be a light

Speaker: Gwen White

Location: 2309 N. Broad St.

About Talk: Gwen White focuses on how we all need to get good at giving and receiving apologies. Bad apologies crack relationships. Good apologies can reconnect people who have been separated by hurt. A good apology has three parts: 1) I'm sorry; 2) It was my fault; 3) What can I do to make it right with you? There are psychological reasons that we humans resist apologies, but Jesus is clear about His expectation that we "win one another back" all the time. The goal isn't to assert who is right and who is wrong, but to mend connections, to bring people back together. We all really want good apologies. But they are hard to find. Even more, Jesus tells us that we can forgive others for the hurts they cause us, even when they do not apologize. This process of reflecting on our choices deeply when someone hurts us or is hurt by us can be an opportunity for our growth in understanding ourself and others. But we can't force the process and make it go too quickly. We ought not apologize for things we are not responsible for, but we can use the power of an apology lovingly to understand others and ourselves more deeply with the aim to reconnect. Forgiveness for others comes from our own personal and intimate experience of God forgiving us. Mercy is only possible in this context.

Season: You can be a light

Speaker: Gwen White

Location: 2309 N. Broad St.

About Talk: Gwen White focuses on how we all need to get good at giving and receiving apologies. Bad apologies crack relationships. Good apologies can reconnect people who have been separated by hurt. A good apology has three parts: 1) I'm sorry; 2) It was my fault; 3) What can I do to make it right with you? There are psychological reasons that we humans resist apologies, but Jesus is clear about His expectation that we "win one another back" all the time. The goal isn't to assert who is right and who is wrong, but to mend connections, to bring people back together. We all really want good apologies. But they are hard to find. Even more, Jesus tells us that we can forgive others for the hurts they cause us, even when they do not apologize. This process of reflecting on our choices deeply when someone hurts us or is hurt by us can be an opportunity for our growth in understanding ourself and others. But we can't force the process and make it go too quickly. We ought not apologize for things we are not responsible for, but we can use the power of an apology lovingly to understand others and ourselves more deeply with the aim to reconnect. Forgiveness for others comes from our own personal and intimate experience of God forgiving us. Mercy is only possible in this context.

Season: Let's Start at the Beginning (Genesis 1-11)

Speaker: Ben White

Location: 3800 Marlton Pike

About Talk: The sin of Cain in Genesis 4 had nothing to do with the grain or fruit that he offered God. It was about his refusal to go with the nature of reality that God was revealing to him. We want God to make sense. We want there to be a reason that meat is a better sacrifice, but there is not. Cain’s experience of ultimate reality appears to be as arbitrary as our own. God finds Cain and offers him consolation but he refuses it. His resentment grows into murder and the aftermath grows into war with Tubal Cain’s invention of weapons of war. Jesus sees the connection in Matthew 5 that God warned Cain about. We must master our resentment or it will destroy us all.

Season: Let's Start at the Beginning (Genesis 1-11)

Speaker: Ben White

Location: 3800 Marlton Pike

About Talk: The sin of Cain in Genesis 4 had nothing to do with the grain or fruit that he offered God. It was about his refusal to go with the nature of reality that God was revealing to him. We want God to make sense. We want there to be a reason that meat is a better sacrifice, but there is not. Cain’s experience of ultimate reality appears to be as arbitrary as our own. God finds Cain and offers him consolation but he refuses it. His resentment grows into murder and the aftermath grows into war with Tubal Cain’s invention of weapons of war. Jesus sees the connection in Matthew 5 that God warned Cain about. We must master our resentment or it will destroy us all.

Season: Let's Start at the Beginning (Genesis 1-11)

Speaker: Ben White

Location: 3800 Marlton Pike

About Talk: The sin of Cain in Genesis 4 had nothing to do with the grain or fruit that he offered God. It was about his refusal to go with the nature of reality that God was revealing to him. We want God to make sense. We want there to be a reason that meat is a better sacrifice, but there is not. Cain’s experience of ultimate reality appears to be as arbitrary as our own. God finds Cain and offers him consolation but he refuses it. His resentment grows into murder and the aftermath grows into war with Tubal Cain’s invention of weapons of war. Jesus sees the connection in Matthew 5 that God warned Cain about. We must master our resentment or it will destroy us all.

Season: Postures of Jesus-followers

Speaker: Rod White

Location: 2214 S. Broad St.

About Talk: The key issue of getting into the deep water with Jesus and finding that you can have a sustainable life of faith, hope and love is all about prayer. Rod White reveals the problems and offers a new look at Psalm 23 to offer some direction for how to get into the deep water of faith.

Season: Postures of Jesus-followers

Speaker: Rod White

Location: 2214 S. Broad St.

About Talk: The key issue of getting into the deep water with Jesus and finding that you can have a sustainable life of faith, hope and love is all about prayer. Rod White reveals the problems and offers a new look at Psalm 23 to offer some direction for how to get into the deep water of faith.