Lesson: Mark 8:31-38. "What good would it do to get everything you want and lose you, the real you? The connected you. The you that remembers God."

Lesson: Mark 1:9-15. "We invite you to take a stone home today. Let it remind you that we are called and then empowered to change – ourselves, and our world. Let it remind you, daily, of daily resurrection, of the stone God rolled away to raise Jesus, and rolls away in our lives as well. Now. And every single day.

Lesson: Mark 9:2-9. "However God shows up in your life, however you experience transformation, may your life be enriched by the experience of being present to God’s awesome power and transforming love."

Lessons: Psalm 147:1-11, 20c; 1 Corinthians 9:16-23. "The word for this kind of behavior, for Paul’s behavior, is not marketing, or evangelism, but hospitality."

Lesson: 1 Corinthians 8:1-13. "We are the body of Christ. May we be neither neutral nor detached. May we choose community."

Lessons: Psalm 62, Mark 1:14-20. "Maybe not tomorrow, my friends, or next year, or in our lifetime, or even in a way that the rest of the world understands it. But brothers and sisters, believe the good news: the kingdom of God is here and we are called to work in it and for it and toward it, and everything’s gonna be all right."

Lesson: 1 Samuel 3:1-20. "Therefore Eli said to Samuel, ‘Go, lie down; and if he calls you, you shall say, “Speak, Lord, for your servant is listening.”

Lessons: Isaiah 43:1-7, Mark 1:4-11. "And we belong to each other. When we are baptized with Christ, we are baptized into his ministry of grace, to love others as we are loved, to stand with everybody whose life is messy and complicated and hard which means: with everybody."

Lesson: John 1:1-18. "My New Year's prayer for all of us is that although Christmas is over, we will live a Christmas life, so that the light might continue shining on in even the darkest of places."

Lesson: Galatians 3:23-4:7. "Our totally true, totally present and unconditionally loving parent has adopted us not because of who we are but because of who God is."