Pastor Phil takes aim at what Peace looks like in a homily on Member Sunday. Can you wait 20 minutes to hear the end of his story??

Pastor Jon talks about "Hope" the First advent candle. Is our Hope at Christmas for something that has already happened or for what is to come? Perhaps we're getting the reason for the season wrong...

Pastor Jon also talks Elisha, this time about his strange incident with the floating Ax Head in the Jordan River. Could it be a metaphor for baptism? How about evidence of God's Miraculous power? Maybe even a story about debt forgiveness?

So what's with the story of Elisha committing a mass murder of children using enchanted She-Bears? Perhaps there's more to the story than we are reading on the surface. Could it be an analogy of how God is always on the side of the less powerful? Find out!

Pastor Jon talks about the weird story of Jesus cursing the fig tree and exegetes it as a living parable for the temple system which had been corrupted. Is God concerned with our religious actions or is God concerned with our heart for justice?

Pastor Jon takes a crack at one of the WEIRDEST stories in the Bible, the story of Samson tying 600 foxes together, lighting their tails on fire, and releasing them into a field. Jon offers that the story is a metaphor for the pointlessness of the endless cycle of violence that results from revenge. Will we follow Jesus break the cycle or follow the world and continue the bloodshed?

In their first newly joined congregation FBC's Pastor Phil and Hope's Pastor Jon co-preach on what it means to be people who embody self-control. Will we have the fortitude to respond rather than react? It's a message that speaks to the new vision of collaboration and compromise for the sake of Christ and Neighbor.

Pastor Jon preaches on being Gentle as an extension of being proximate to suffering and in the midst of power structures that attempt to silo-differentness. He offers that sometimes being gentle to the least of these means being a little tough on those who uphold the systems that keep them down.

Pastor Jon finally unveils Aquaponics as a primary sermon illustration in the first sermon after the somewhat controversial BEDS+ Shelter opens at Hope Cov. Will our Faithfulness turn the world's mess into something beautiful or will we choke to death on our own waste?

Pastor Jon asks "How are Goodness and Kindness related and different?" Is Goodness really just the same thing or do our actions mean more than we like to admit?