Northaven episodes:

• August 13, 2019Call To Action

  Here’s the thing.  I simply don’t know if I can sustain an attitude of love

  towards my enemies.  And I would have a hard time telling little Magdalena

  to love those who took her parents away from her.  And so I am grateful for

  the words of Martin Luther King who declares that “love is so much more

  than emotional bosh.”  If it were all about our emotions, I would despair

  of ever claiming to love my enemies.

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• August 06, 2019Inspired: Fish Stories

  There are occasions in life when the experience we have with another human

  being or with God is so extravagant, so bold, so precious that we have to

  use exaggerated language to talk about it truly. The Bible is full of

  stories that are too good to be true, almost-but-not-quite-believable

  stories of miraculous, mysterious events. Rachel Held Evans calls these

  “fish stories.”

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• July 30, 2019Inspired: Gospel Stories

  In the Kingdom of God goodness shows up, grace shows up.  And grace changes

  us.  Weeds may always be weeds but people can be transformed.  So, we are

  called to let go of our judgment and refrain from plucking out the

  possibility of transformation.  If we leave anyone out or if any one of us

  feels unwelcome then we miss the opportunity to cooperate with the grace of

  God to influence positive change.

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• July 23, 2019Inspired: Stories Of Resistance

  We will not be immobilized by the constant barrage of negativity and

  division.  Like Isaiah we will look upon the destruction caused by such

  hatred and be reminded of God’s promise to create a new heaven and a new

  earth.

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• July 16, 2019Inspired: Wisdom Stories

  The wisdom of Job tells us that God struggles with them. Their chaos is

  God’s chaos. Job learned that God created a complex world. In the order of

  creation there is chaos that God struggles with alongside us, never giving

  up the struggle, always committed to life.

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• July 07, 2019Inspired: Stories Of War

  The antidote to hostile texts of the Bible is more Bible. As Christians we

  read all stories through the lens of the cross. As Rachel Held Evans

  describes it: If God became flesh and blood in the person of Jesus, the

  cross proves that “God would rather die by violence than commit it.” Jesus

  bore the brunt of human cruelty and remained faithful to the God of love.

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• June 30, 2019Inspired: Stories Of Deliverance

  One of our primary tasks as the church today is to be witnesses to God’s

  “yes.” When small children are held in cages or when they lose their lives

  trying to make it across the river; when there is a tragedy that cannot be

  explained; when there is suffering that seems to be endless, we each do our

  part to announce God’s “yes” to the world.

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• June 23, 2019Inspired: Stories Of Origin

  Part of our maturation, spiritually and psychologically, is the process of

  embracing some origin stories while rejecting others. Our work is one of

  selective remembrance.

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• June 18, 2019Something There Is That Doesn't Love A Wall

  Rev. Mike House is our guest preacher this week preaching from Acts and

  shares some of Peter’s story.

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• June 09, 2019Love Languages

  The church is a community that gathers “altogether in one place.”  The

  church is a community that opens itself up and allows the Holy Spirit to

  enter.  The church is filled with all kinds of people who get caught up in

  the power of the Spirit so that they begin dreaming dreams, big dreams, God

  dreams.  The church is a place where God’s dreams and visions are

  proclaimed.

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