This week begins the first Sunday of the Lenten season, the forty days leading up to Easter Sunday. It is a time for reflection, fasting, and renewal. This week, we begin by asking ourselves about what kind of story we have landed in. If we enter the season of Lent with the proper attitude, what are we willing to risk? Will we trust God to rule and heal the world? Will we trust God to reveal who we truly are? Will we trust God for our security? Or will we succumb to the temptations for power and control over ourselves and others? Join us as we being this Risky Lent.

How do we exist as a church during and after a pandemic, deconstruction, and negative experiences with faith communities? What would it mean if we embraced an identity as exiles and refugees? What can two soccer clubs teach us about ownership and building community from the ground up for the sake of the community?

Each year, on the second Sunday of February, we celebrate our birthday with Cheesecake. This year Crossings turns sixteen! This Sunday we studied Genesis 32 where Jacob wrestles with God and has his name changed to Israel at the river Jabbok. What does it mean for a faith community to wrestle with a God we can't always name but who still gives us a blessing? How do we understand the persistence of our identity as our community and our world constantly change?

What does it mean to study Scripture like 1 Corinthians in a world and in a community that we affect and in turn affects us? What does it mean to be the church that extends the argument about the story of God in the world?

How does a proper understanding of Resurrection change the way we live our lives? How do we seek and embrace a sense of newness that is beyond ourselves?

How can we seek to build up others around us rather than seek our own self-importance? How can we strive to make everything we do about helping people find their way back to God?

1 Corinthians 13 is one of the most well-known chapters in the Bible. How can we avoid an individualistic understanding of love and put this passage back in the context of community? What would it look like if we all embodied this perfect love in our world?

In 1 Corinthians 12, Paul suggests that the church is the Body of Christ, a unified body made up of diverse parts for the common good. But who decides what the common good is? How do we bring ourselves into a community without comparing ourselves to others, thinking too much of ourselves, or seeking to exert power? Are we willing to stay in community even if we don't "win" every time?

What do Google, Ecclesiastes, John Green, and the song "Auld Lang Syne" say to us about beginning 2023? For some, the start of a new year can be depressing while for others it is deeply hopeful. What does it mean to be here, to be us, to be together?

What does it mean that we have "God-with-us" and not a "God-up-there-somewhere?" In what small ways are we able to sense the holy, sacred, and divine among us? How do we rebuild a faith that, we hope, can be amazing?