What comes to mind when we picture a prophet or a prophetic book? How might the book of Isaiah challenge us to evaluate our biases or unconscious participation in culture? How can we join an ongoing conversation of prophecy as we reinvent traditions, correct past mistakes, and build a more resilient community for the present?

Worship Songs:

All Creatures of Our God and King

Holy, Holy, Holy 

Revelation Song

Teaching Song: Hairpin Turns

As we begin our 12-week study of Isaiah, we hope to ask questions about what it would mean for us to find home again. How can we engage the impossible task of being human, finding meaning, and searching for God? What would it mean to find healing and build a more resilient faith from ancient traditions? How can we add our voices to those of the past and join the conversation?

Worship Songs:

Build My Life

You Hold It All

Path of Sorrow

Our Great God

When Jesus invites his friends to breakfast, he's inviting them to reenact a story. Reenacting the story is essentially what we do together each week, and Molly unpacks why it's the reason she stays Christian. This is the last part of a series where Molly shares reflections of her sabbatical.

Worship Songs:

This is My Father’s World

Steadfast

King of Kings

So Will I

What if faith doesn’t require us to choose between a grounded, reality-based life and a sense of wonder, mystery, and enchantment? In the story of Peter walking on water, we explored what it means to step beyond certainty, encounter the sacred in the natural world, and trust that something might be holding us up even when faith feels preposterous.

Worship Songs:

Sovereign

Be Thou My Vision

Your Steadfast Love

Teaching Songs:

Beyond the Blue

Molly is back from sabbatical sharing stories of her time in Ireland and Scotland, connecting them with stories from the gospels that take place in boats. This teachings asks about the direction of trust in the story of Jesus calming the storm. 

Worship Songs:

God With Us

Cornerstone
Goodness of God

Teaching Song:

Beyond the Blue

Is the work of building a life of faith a solitary burden or a communal project? What happens when the stories we inherit don't seem to fit the lives we are actually living? Can we treat our doubts, wounds, and contradictions not as failures, but as the essential materials for a new foundation? When traditional narratives leave us with gaps and silences, do we dare to use our own "poet's eyes" to fill them in?

Worship Songs

Abide with Me

You Hold It All

Bind Us Together

Christ Be All Around Me

What is the dynamic between reverence and irreverence in faith? How can we adopt the posture of the "holy fool" in our lives? Where do we need to embrace the imperfections in order to create, play, and grow?

Worship Songs

This is My Father's World

Nothing I Hold On To

Make Room

Teaching Song

Turn, Turn, Turn

Worship Songs:

Be Thou My Vision

Path of Sorrow

⁠You Hold it All⁠

Teaching Song: Winning Streak

GBTG/Shalom: Jen Cunic

What is the role of surprise in faith? How can we be more present to our stories? Where do we least expect to find God hiding? How can we take more risks to dare to go where we've always longed to go?

Worship Songs:

Holy Spirit

For The Beauty 

Bind Us Together

Christ Be All Around Me

How can we embrace our faith journey with Poet’s Eyes? How can we learn to see faith as a set of creative constraints—imperfect but liberating? Where can we experiment with our limitations and be freed up to live more fully?

Worship Songs:

 I Will Sing

You Hold It All⁠

Oceans⁠

Teaching Song:

Faith