Lessons: 1 Kings 8:(1, 6, 10-11) 22-30, 41-43. "Solomon got one thing right: No sanctuary can contain God. And yet, we celebrate that God is here. Here in you, and here in me. Here, where we are called to gather, and here, where we are sent out to be signs of God’s mysterious and loving presence.

Lesson: 2 Samuel 18:5-15, 24-33.

Lesson: 2 Samuel 11:26-12:13a. "Let us speak truths and listen to truths, for God’s grace extends to all. God rejoices when we repent. God desires us to be in relationship with Her and with each other. May we be so brave as to listen and to respond…together."

Lesson: 2 Samuel 11:1-15. "Practicing gratitude is an antidote to the arrogance that encourages power to corrupt. And power doesn’t corrupt everybody."

Lesson: 2 Samuel 6:1-5, 12b-19. "And I believe with all my heart that what God also wants for us is singing, laughing, and dancing. God gave us these gifts to connect, and to enjoy."

Lessons: 1 Samuel 18:1-9; 2 Samuel 1:17-27 . "We will give ourselves to the work of love that God commands in the world, and we will - with God's help - in our own embodied lives - prove - once and for all - and forever - our almost instinct, absolutely true: what WILL survive of us is love."

Lessons: 1 Samuel 17:1a, 4-11, 19-23, 32-49. "Eventually, we shall overcome because it is God who will prevail. With David, we say to this giant, “You come to us with hatred and discrimination and violence; but we come to you in the name of the Lord of hosts.”

Lessons: 1 Samuel 15:34-16:13. "As the Lord said to Samuel: “Do not look on his appearance or on the height of his stature; for the Lord does not see as mortals see; they look on the outward appearance, but the Lord looks on the heart.”

Lessons: 1 Samuel 8:4-20. "...God’s promises don’t cease when we make bad choices. God gives us the freedom to make choices, and that freedom comes with living with the consequences. But whatever we choose, God does not abandon us."

Lesson: Romans 8:(12-13)14-18. "Struggle and glory…we live it together as children of God."