On Pentecost Sunday, as cities across America are filled with marchers and protestors, Andy makes a call to action. "It is not acceptable to be a church hunkered down, afraid to go out and proclaim the name of Jesus."

Acts 2:1-11

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A non-member asks whether the Methodist church disciplines members, and if people are required to confess their sins to a pastor or another authority. It leads to a discussion of what rules the Methodist church actually has, the importance of accountability, and how pastors work to try to be someone who stands in your corner rather than punishing you.

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Andy speaks about “God in Real Time": God is taking care of you in the here and now, and God is going to take care of you in the future.

Anything the world gives to you is going to fade away, the peace God gives to us is infinite. The Holy Spirit is a gift that shows us that fear cannot prevail.

“Faith is stranger than peace, and so even though we feel the storm, the storm does not overcome us.”

John 14:25-27

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Questions of racial justice, privilege and discipleship surface as the group breaksdown the murder of Ahmaud Arbery. They reflect on the heavy price payed for racial harmony, the work that still awaits and the steps the church can take to be the champions of love.

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Donyale comes to us from her kitchen table to consider why God chooses people who don't need just minor changes, but be changed utterly.

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We’re talking about social holiness and what John Wesley meant by it. What that it looks like today and how it differs from how we interpret God defines it.

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Isaiah 65:17-25

This week, Andy got angry at a fajitas-for-one, and then at the frustrations of the pandemic. But today's passage from Isaiah shows how anger turns to joy, and how change can be change forever.

But to do that, we have to leave sins in the past.

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All hands are on deck as the group dives deep into examining the consequences the precautionary actions we take to stay safe during the pandemic may have on others around the world. They find themselves wrapped in the same chaos our questioner finds themselves in.

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John 5:1-9

Andy discusses the story of the man who could not make it into the pool to be healed, and the importance of what exactly it was that Jesus said to him in that moment.

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We welcome our first guest to the Ask Me Anything table, Bishop Scott Jones! The group pick each others brains’ on how they’re managing daily life, spouses, parenting and the “new trend” growth during this pandemic. They lean into the changes they’ve seen in how we’re worshiping due to the pandemic and the possible impact on the future of the church

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