"God isn't keeping score, so neither should we. Vengeance, violence, and victimhood are impotent pursuits. Jesus calls us to mercy-to grace and forgiveness. Jesus invites us to stop keeping count."

 

Speaker: Kevin Knox (March 6, 2017)Passage: Matthew 18:21-22, Psalm 86:5, Daniel 9:9

"Love shows itself as mercy, and mercy is a humiliation to the ego. Where the ego prefers vengeance, justice, coming out on top--mercy invites us to overlook personal offenses, to consider 'the other', to care for the powerless, and yes, mercy invites us to love our enemies."

 

Speaker: Kevin Knox (February 26, 2017)Passage: Hosea 6:6, Matthew 9:9-13, Luke 6:27-36

"When we come and gather, each one of us should come with the thought and idea that you, walking in this place, are going to make this "body" better, more beautiful; what it is supposed to be."

 

Speaker: Jeanne Wong (February 19, 2017)Passage: 1 Corinthians 12: 12-26

"If the sacred light of God is within all of us, then we belong to one another. We share the same Name. We're on the same team. "Us and them" is a lie. There is only us."

 

Speaker: Kevin Knox (February 12, 2017)Passage: John 17:20-23, Acts 2:42-45, John 13:34-35

"The great aim of evangelism isn't conversion. It's friendship. It's love and mutuality and seeking the good of the 'other' at all costs."

 

Speaker: Kevin Knox (February 5, 2017)Passage: 1 Corinthians 12:31, 13:1-13; 3 John 1-14

"Salvation is not "here's how you get to heaven when you die." Salvation is living the life of God today, in this life, in this world.

 

Speaker: Kevin Knox (January 29, 2017)Passage: Matthew 25:31-46

"The goal of all religion is Divine union, not private perfection. God isn't looking for the morally superior or dogmatically correct. God loves us as we are. We live from God's love, not for it." 

Speaker: Kevin Knox (January 22, 2017)Passage: Genesis 2:15-17, 3:4-12; John 15:5-8

"What is essential in every human being--what is deepest and truest of all of us--is that which is of God. In us all is the sacred light of the Divine." 

Speaker: Kevin Knox (January 15, 2017)Passage: Genesis 1:27-31; 2:25 and Matthew 5:13-16

"Move Slower, Cover Less Ground." 

Speaker: Kevin Knox (January 8, 2017)Passage: Haggai 1:5-7

"Jesus didn't come to change the mind of God about humanity. Jesus came to change the mind of humanity about God." -Richard Rohr

Speaker: Kevin Knox (December 18, 2016)Passage: 1 John 4:16, Isaiah 7:10-14