• What does love look like to you?

• What are ways people and Spirit has been hospitable to you?

• This week what radical act of hospitality would you like to offer?

Derrick Harkins, preacher

• What are your take-aways from Derrick’s sermon?

“Outdoing Jesus: Why it’s good news and how you are doing it” - Doug Pagitt, preacher

• What are your take-aways from Doug’s sermon?

We learn a lot about God during times when God feels close. But Jesus and the prophets were clear that God would also feel distant at times. The text today is one of the several parables Jesus tells about an “absent God.”

• What can we learn about God in God’s absence that we can’t learn in God’s presence? Is it possible to get clarity in absence as well as presence?

• Where does God feel absent in your life, in your family, in your community and in the world?

The Absent God - Rob Stephens, preacher

• One way to think about human development is that a “good enough mother” holds us while we become whole. How is God a good-enough mom?

• To quote my Mama Ruby, “Where does it hurt?”

• How can God, Love, we, you help heal it?

Steadfast. Forever. Jacqui Lewis, preacher

• What is heaven like in your dreams? What images from scripture, other texts, or art shape that vision?

• What can you do today, this week, this month to make heaven on earth?