Lesson: ! Corinthians 12:12-14, 27

Lesson: Matthew 16:13-20. "Who do you say that Jesus is? This is not a test. You don’t have to have a great answer this morning. The church, the community of Jesus, gathers this morning, and off and on all week, and every year, and every century, so that we can help each other answer that question, and figure out together how it will shape our lives and even our world."

Lesson: Matthew 15: 21-28. "John's Gospel says it this way, 'On that day you will realize that I am in my Father, and you are in me, and I am in you." There seems to be a dwelling within us and if we can hear thyself, we've got to be on the right road."

Lesson: Luke 10:25-37. "For Christians, we should walk in the sandals of Jesus. Inside his ministry of love. After all that was what his ministry is all about. We are not meant to be martyrs, but we must filter our actions not through judgment and fear, but through the love and grace as shown us by our Christ.

Lessons: Psalm 62: 1-2, 5-8; Romans 5:1-5. "We can engage in Real Hope because we know that God can be trusted to handle our hope gently and with great compassion."

Lessons: Matthew 13:31-33, 44-52. "We all have shame. We all worry, at one point or another - if not most of the time -- that, "I'm not good enough." So we hide who we really are. But in order for connection to happen -- true connection -- we have to let ourselves be seen."

Lesson: 2 Corinthians 3:7-18. "In communion with Christ and one another, we see with eyes anew the promise of the glory of God yet redeeming all things around us, and we are called to reveal the glory of God—with unveiled faces ablaze—by participating in this redemptive trajectory ourselves."

Lessons: Matthew 13:1-9, 16-23. "These parables are subversive – they are about the present and coming reign of God – they are about an end to oppression and violence – and they are about an emerging world of justice and peace. They are prophetic, and they are political."

Lesson: Psalm 23; Acts 2:42-47. "In life and in death, 'Thou art with me' - God is with us. In life and in death, the Lord is our shepherd. Thanks be to God for God's presence with us, spoken so powerfully in the Twenty-third Psalm, this touchstone of our faith."

Lesson: Luke 24:13-35. "Thanks be to God for the village of the community of faith, and for gifts of music, our voices, our tradition of singing hymns, and the mystery of the way they work together to make us signs of the resurrection."