EPHESIANS 4:25-5:2

In today’s sermon, we receive an invitation to live like the beloved community that we are. We learn about the why, what, and how of Christian community and practice.

EPHESIANS 4: 1-16

We often go through life without paying attention, and the tyranny of the urgent distracts us from the important. 

In the letter to the Ephesians, Paul writes to a group of diverse people to remind them who they are. The diagnostic questions for us today are: Who are you? What is important to you?

EPHESIANS 3:14-21

The love of power can drive people to do all sorts of things that are destructive & harmful. But the power of love can fuel people who feel weak to do powerful things, or powerful people to do foolish and vulnerable things. 

The invitation today is to consider if there is more powerful love available to us now.

MARK 6:30-34, 53-56

Mission can drive the trajectory of our lives. Today’s gospel story invites us to consider the questions: What mission is driving this chapter of our lives? Is the fuel strong enough to sustain us? 

MARK 6:14-30

Today’s gospel reading invites us to consider the questions: What are we filling our minds and hearts with? How are we marking the different way points as we navigate through this season of our lives? 

MARK 6:1-13

In today’s gospel, Jesus comes home with power, authority, love, and healing, and he offends everybody. 

This passage is meant to wake us up: Jesus will always offend in one way or another. How is he offending you now? 

MARK 5:21-43

We will all come to a point in our lives where we wonder why God isn’t working in an area that is critically important for us. What do we do when life’s problems and difficulties get worse, not better? 

In this passage, we see what Jesus is doing in the midst of the delays and challenges in our lives.

MARK 4:35-41

The storm we read about in the gospel of Mark came suddenly, in the middle of the night, and the disciples found themselves wondering how Jesus could be asleep in the middle of their crisis. 

What are the storms in your life, internal and external? And what is God doing in the midst of them? 

2 CORINTHIANS 5:11-21

What does it mean to fear God? Far from telling us that we ought to be afraid of God, the gospel invites us to reflect on what it would mean for Christ’s love to serve as the ordering principle of our lives.

MARK 4:26-34

When you become a Christian, you don’t lose your particular culture or identity, but you’re reborn into an entirely new culture and identity, which Jesus calls the “Kingdom of God.” Our membership in the Kingdom of God actually shapes and perfects our ability to show up as our authentic selves.