Ecclesia Houston

Gideon Tsang, long time friend and Pastor to Vox Veniae, a church in Austin, TX, shares a message on transformation. For more information on Vox, visit them at voxveniae.com. Mark 9:2-8

Pastor Chris Seay shares stories and a message from a recent medical mission trip to Guatemala.

Donald Miller, friend, author, and director of Storyline and Story Brand shares a talk on three qualities of a hero. Ps. 31:1-8

Acts 2:1-12; 36-47 "Man's sensitivity to little things and insensitivity to the greatest things are marks of a strange disorder."                                        - Blaise Pascal “The disciples, filled with the Spirit, begin the work of Jesus’ sovereign and saving rule over the world, whose Lord he now is, by their shared common life, their works of healing, their proclamation of him as Lord and King, and their bold witness against the authorities who try to stop them. And that just about sums up the whole book, all the way to when Paul arrives in Rome and announces God as King and Jesus as Lord right under Caesar’s nose, openly and unhindered. So Pentecost is about the powerful presence of Jesus with his people; about the implementation of Jesus’ healing, saving rule through his people; and thirdly about the anticipation, in and through that work, of the final day when heaven and earth shall be one. It isn’t just that the Spirit is the ‘down payment’ of what is to come for us as his people; the Spirit is the advance sign of what God is going to do for the whole earth, the entire created order.” - N.T. Wright

Luke 24:42-43 Luke 24:44-53

Jonathan Martin shares a message of beauty for Mothers Day 2015. Acts 10:1-16, 44-48 "In Louisville, at the corner of Fourth and Walnut, in the center of the shopping district, I was suddenly overwhelmed with the realization that I loved all those people, that they were mine and I theirs, that we could not be alien to one another even though we were total strangers. It was like waking from a dream of separateness, of spurious self-isolation in a special world, the world of renunciation and supposed holiness. The whole illusion of a separate holy existence is a dream...There is no way of telling people that they are all walking around shining like the sun.... I suddenly saw the secret beauty of their hearts, the depths of their hearts where neither sin nor desire nor self-knowledge can reach, the core of their reality, the person that each one is in God’s eyes. If only they could all see themselves as they really are. If only we could see each other that way all of the time." — Thomas Merton

Pastor Chris Seay continues the series, The Story. Psalm 1 Galatians 5:22-24 Proverbs 17:17; 18:24; 25:17,20 1 Peter 1:6-7 Turns out, there was one—and only one—characteristic that distinguished the happiest 10 percent from everybody else: the strength of their social relationships. My empirical study of well-being among 1,600 Harvard undergraduates found a similar result—social support was a far greater predictor of happiness than any other factor, more than GPA, family income, SAT scores, age, gender, or race. In fact, the correlation between social support and happiness was 0.7. This may not sound like a big number, but for researchers it’s huge—most psychology findings are considered significant when they hit 0.3. The point is, the more social support you have, the happier you are. — TIME magazine

Pastor Chris Seay continues our series, The Story. Galatians 6:1-10 1 Corinthians 13:4-8 "Do for one, what you wish you could do for all." — Andy Stanley

Pastor Chris Seay continues our series, The Story. Matthew 28:16-20 Colossians 4:2-6 2 Timothy 1:3-10 Preach the gospel at all times. If necessary use words. — (attributed to) St. Francis of Assisi "Of course, words are necessary. Unexplained deeds, in themselves, do not constitute the mission of God’s people.” — David Bosch

Elizabeth Korver-Glenn leads a Midweek teaching on Resurrection Life.