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Ecclesia Houston episodes

November 12, 2018 Hope Responds
Pastor Chris Seay shares stories and a message of hope from Mexico City,
where thousands of migrant travelers rested on their journey to escape
violence and oppression in Central America. As Ecclesia answers an
invitation to show hospitality and love to these brothers and sisters, we
are invited to consider what it means to respond in hope, knowing what we
are for and not simply what we are against.
34 min
November 05, 2018 Rootedness
Our beloved brother Gideon Tsang joined us once again, asking the question
of what it means to be rooted. As Christ remains (roots) in us, we must
ask: Where are our lives rooted? With whom are we rooted? What resistance
do we feel towards planting ourselves fully where God has placed us? May
God speak to you uniquely through this invitation to stillness,
contemplation, and participation.
32 min
October 29, 2018 Hope Is Certain
Pastor Chris Seay continues a conversation we began last week on the
vitality of hope in our journey with God and one another. When we have a
living hope, we can trust in God’s plans even in times of difficulty and
despair, gain vision for a long and unfolding story, and open our hearts in
greater gratitude and worship as God meets and sees us where we are.
34 min
October 22, 2018 Sleepless Nights
Pastor Sean Palmer offered a message on the vitality of hope in a time of
inescapable anxiety. In facing the inevitability of loss, death, and
disappointment, will we be a people who are ruled by fear and anxiety, or
will we find rest in a hope that is living and expectant; in the confidence
that our God truly cares for us?
35 min
October 15, 2018 The Wounds Of Love
It is always a profound gift to be taught by our dear friend and brother,
Dr. Dan Allender. As a people shaped in part by experiences of trauma and
betrayal, we often resist opening ourselves up to receive comfort. Dan
offers us a beautiful reminder that God has bled for us, engraving our
names in his palms, promising the kind of love that will never forget or
forsake us.
25 min
October 08, 2018 Dance Like Nobody's Watching
Pastor Sean Palmer taught from the story of King David, and shared about
many of the ways God has provided in abundance as we have sought to
eliminate the debt at our Downtown campus. This freedom allows our family
all the more opportunity to seek God’s will in serving our city and
communities around the world. In times such as these, we are called to
jubilant celebration.
34 min
October 01, 2018 Grace And Fire
Ericka Graham taught through Jesus’ Parable of the Workers in the Vineyard,
and shared vulnerably from her own experience of coming to the knowledge
and acceptance of grace during a time of deep trial and shame. Grace is
humbling to accept because God meets us in our sin and unworthiness,
calling us beloved, just as we are. In receiving grace, we are ignited from
the source of all love, to carry that flame and share it wherever we go.
37 min
September 24, 2018 The Good King
Pastor Sean Palmer invites us to consider our view of leadership, and what
it requires to become someone whose example is worth following. As we learn
from Moses (and Black Panther), leaders are driven by burden rather than
bluster, leaders are called to choose courage, and that each and every one
of us is called to embrace the unique responsibility of leading in our
circles of influence.
42 min
September 17, 2018 Invaluable
Pastor Chris Seay (with assists from Schindler’s List and Dr. Maya Angelou)
asked us to consider what a life is worth. When we truly see ourselves as
God has declared us to be, the way we care for our bodies, the ways we work
and give, and the ways we are called to remind others of their importance
to this world are all radically changed.
41 min
September 09, 2018 A Loving Story
Pastor Sean Palmer reminds us that God's story is, and always has been, a
love story. Sean shares the story of Richard and Mildred Loving, and pieces
of the film based upon their marriage, to illustrate the kind of patient,
tough, and expansive love to which we are called as a people in Christ.
44 min

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