Andy returns from Ithaca to discuss baptism and "remembering your baptism" on the week of First Methodist's "Simply Ordinary" baptism ceremony. Along the way, we talk about how the church does confirmation wrong, a Martin Luther quote worth remembering, and Brandi accidentally calls Ben a demon.

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As Andy returns from his trip, he focuses on what it's like when God calls us back to home - and how he pulls us out of the wilderness.

Plus, his experiences in Ithaca, and how "Won't You Be My Neighbor," the new Mr. Rogers documentary, pulled him up sharply.

Numbers 20: 1-13

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Ann tells the story of how Moses called water from the rock with his staff, and reminds us that God will take anything to reveal himself to us, and then we reveal God to other people. Then, the story of the rainbow God used to call Ann into ministry.

Numbers 20: 1-13

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Kaitlyn and Ben talk about the surprising examples of faith and consistency they found while watching the new Mr. Rogers documentary, "Won't You Be My Neighbor." Also, we find out how "Three's Company" kept Ben from having a TV growing up, and why Brandi isn't allowed to leave ever again.

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Where do you go to find God? What does a holy place look like?

Brandi explores how we find God, and the places we go to find him. To show what she means, she talks about the holiest place that she knows: a Catholic church on the border of Texas and Mexico, and what she found there.

Exodus 3:1-10

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Brandi, Kaitlyn, and Ben dive into an article about journalism and politics that turns out to be much more about how we oversimplify narratives and how we consistently fail to deal with conflict correctly. How are we as the church, and as its people, getting this wrong over and over again?

The article is called "Complicating the Narratives," and can be read here: https://thewholestory.solutionsjournalism.org/complicating-the-narratives-b91ea06ddf63

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Often we don't feel up to the task, but Ann reminds us that the Holy Spirit isn't bothered one bit by where we are. She goes through the Bible to show us the stories of all those people who were called by God to great things despite incredible deficiencies, and reminds us that he is calling us to do the same.

Acts 4: 13-14

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Andy talks about three ways he saw the Holy Spirit at work in our church this week, one of which involved the miraculous appearance of a literal busload of Lutherans. Then he talks about Acts 4, and how Holy Spirit empowered the deeply ordinary men that Jesus had selected as his disciples. When God moves the same way in us, "we don't just see lives being changed - we see kingdoms being built."

Acts 4: 13-14

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This week is ostensibly about unjust laws and how we deal with them as Christians, but that turns out to not at all be where the conversation ends up. Instead, Brandi, Juan, and Ben focus on what Jesus told us about how "the poor are always with you," the parable of the sheep and the goats, and the ways we try to make something complicated into something simple to make ourselves feel better.

Plus, a brief and unplanned interruption by live salsa music.

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Back from his trip with the youth group to Peru, Andy talks about what it means to be changed - and how being changed, and pledging to follow Christ, requires absolutely everything. Then, as we begin communion, he holds up the bread and the cup and talks about the sacrifice that came before us that also gave absolutely everything.

Matthew 6:11

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