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March 27, 2020 Corona Conversations: Marcelo Robles
This is the first installment in a series of conversations that Pastor
Chris will have with friends serving around our nation and around the
world. They will discuss the common call we share in response to this
global pandemic, and explore in depth some challenges that may be
contextually unique. Chris’s first guest is our dear brother Marcelo
Robles, Pastor of La Mision Church in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
23 min
March 25, 2020 Quarantine Made Sacred: Drawing Even Nearer
Around the world governments and health experts are urging people to
#stayhome, and Shelter-In-Place orders are given every day. The world is
facing a pandemic few of us were prepared to face. While we love our
families, we are not accustomed to being with the same people 24/7. What if
the greatest temptation is not what we think it is? What if the greatest
temptation isn't being with one another, but to abandon one another even
while we're in their presence?
23 min
March 23, 2020 Beloved Is Where We Begin
As the world continues to grapple with the vast effects of this pandemic,
we are all learning to gather and care for one another in new ways. Pastor
Chris invites us to consider our identity as God’s beloved children ;
trusting that we will be provided for, and the ways in which we will be a
part of that provision for others.
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March 18, 2020 Quarantine Made Sacred: Redeeming the Time
COVID-19 is presenting us all with challenges and obstacles we could never
have imagined. We are now forced into new realities; relational, financial,
emotional, and spiritual. For followers of Jesus, how do we hold this space
with life, grace, and perhaps more importantly, peace? This week, we take a
look at time, and how Israel’s greatest leader, Moses, can guide us.
23 min
March 16, 2020 Together At Home
Responding to the challenging and rapidly developing circumstances
surrounding the spread of COVID-19, members of our family across the globe
gathered largely in our living rooms as we came to worship and commune
together in a new way. Pastor Chris invites us to consider how the church
is uniquely called to step into this season: in the care of our neighbors,
and those most vulnerable in our city and beyond.
For continued updates, stay tuned to ecclesiahouston.org/online
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March 09, 2020 John 8: Setting Down Stones
Pastor Chris continued our series in the Gospel of John, exploring the
story of Jesus’ encounter with a woman facing judgment and his challenge to
the gathered crowd. We’re reminded of God’s compassionate presence lifting
us from shame, and the crucial truth that righteousness is not to be
wielded as a weapon.
36 min
March 02, 2020 Letting God Lead
It was wonderful to welcome back Ines Franklin; offering a deep and
encouraging reminder of the Holy Spirit not as a distant abstraction, but
as a relationship as tangible in essence as the flesh-and-blood person of
Jesus Christ. We are grateful for the simple truth, often forgotten, that
the Spirit of God knows the way. May God help us to trust in that truth,
even when it feels we are driving in the dark.
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February 24, 2020 Lent: Setting the Table
Pastor Chris Seay shares an update on our ongoing partnership with local
churches caring for the countless many still displaced along the Venezuelan
border. As we look ahead to the season of Lent; forty days of prayer and
temptation following Jesus in the desert, we ask how we are called to enter
into and be transformed by rhythms of fasting. Our hope is for you to join
us in pulling away from our excesses, living simply, and gathering our
resources to continue making a place at the table for all.
51 min
February 17, 2020 John 9: The Choice to See
Pastor Sean Palmer continues our series on signs in the Gospel of John with
a vital word for our family; telling the story of the blind beggar healed
by Jesus, and his questioning by the Pharisees which followed. All too
often, our own assumption of “sight” has left us blind to the greater
movement of God that may well be staring us in the face.
34 min
February 10, 2020 Sinners and Saints
Ericka Graham invites us to continue in our journey through the Gospel of
John. We are shown, time and again, the signs of God’s redeeming love
accepting us as sinners while calling us toward the “sainthood” of living
fully into that love.
33 min

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