Human flourishing requires time, effort, practice, and community. This week, Pastor Juan Carlos Huertas, invites us to consider how each of us practicing our flourishing and our giftedness, can contribute to a flourishing community. What gifts do you bring?

This week, Dr. Jim Keck, explores how the mystical essence of our faith is beyond all the small controversies that always swirl around religion.

In his 1988 publication A Secure Base, British child psychologist John Bowlby wrote "life is best organized as a series of daring ventures from a secure base." One must develop a secure base that gives yourself the ability be original and take daring ventures with your work and life. Using the call of Matthew as a disciple, Dr. Jim Keck will talk about what can function as a secure base that enables our lives to be more adventurous.

Rev. Katie Miller is a Nebraska native, currently serving as the Senior Minister at the UCC Vermillion church in South Dakota. Prior to her call to ministry, Katie performed as a musician and actor in and around New York and Chicago.

We are devoted to so many things in our lives, but are those things leading us to flourishing? This week, Pastor Juan Carlos Huertas, shares with us some insights from one of his recent reads about God, the community called the church, and what it means to live in a way that leads to flourishing, community, connection, in life as the good news of Jesus promises.

There are brief moments where the beauty and the grandeur of life becomes readily apparent. Dr. Jim Keck explores these WHOOSH moments in the digital sermon this week.

Moderate and open-minded religion seems to have lost its sense of urgency and muddled the core message of the Gospel - JESUS SAVES. It is time for inclusive Christians to find some intensity in spreading the Gospel. Dr Jim Keck will try to thread the needle and show that our Christian faith can honor other religions and celebrate diversity in sexual orientation, while at the same time knowing that people must be brought to Jesus.

In the origin myth that we call the book of Genesis, the ancient Israelites were trying to explain who they were and how the world worked. One of the things to explain was why there were multiple languages. This week, Pastor Juan Carlos, takes this ancient story of “the Tower of Babel” to begin a conversation about language, culture, difference and the complexities, opportunities, and good news that are found there.

Each of our lives is filled with biographical details made up of many events, accomplishments, times of joy, sorrow, and the company of loved ones. During a funeral there is often a eulogy when someone speaks about the person and their life. This week, Dr. Jim Keck will reflect upon what the content of typical eulogies might teach us in the living of our own days.

In Matthew’s story of Jesus walking on the water, we find a brazen Peter challenging Jesus’ ability. Then Peter lets the wind erupt and impede on his ability to keep focus. We have so many distractions which can take us off center as we go through life. What’s your wind? This week, Pastor KJ Langlais will share some tunes to etch in your mind to remember how to stay focused.