Our Sermon Series, Everything In Between, is studying stories and parables found in the Gospel of Luke. Each story shows how Jesus addressed the polarities people were living in, challenging his listeners to think of things in a new way.

So for us– thousands of years later–this series invites us to spend Lent navigating the polarities in our own lives with more faith, intention, and openness… so that we might be transformed.

Each week, the story or parable invites us to look at two supposed binaries—ideas we usually consider opposing—this or that, either/or, black or white. And we’ll be challenged to look at these dichotomies with nuance and complexity.

Because that space in between the “this” or “that” is like a doorway through which God is beckoning us into something new.

Today, we focus on a very appropriate polarity for the beginning of spring: rest and growth.