Jim & Wendy Norvelle: "Our story is not unusual, but it is our story, and it occurred in compressed time. In four months, my sister, my mother, and my father died..."

Dr. Jim Somerville's "Bible 101" class from Sunday, October 28, 2018.

Jim Somerville: "We do have a concept of heaven, and one of the easiest answers to the problem of suffering in this world is to say, 'Well, in the next world things will be better.' But where did we get such an idea? If Job didn’t have it, why do we...?"

Josie Carver: "In our story, blindness is a physical condition. But what of all the many familiar, metaphorical phrases that refer to vision? 'Seeing is believing.' 'A lens for the world' or 'point of view'. 'Even a blind pig finds an acorn occasionally' and 'a deaf husband and a blind wife are always a happy couple'..."

Dr. Jim Somerville's "Bible 101" class from Sunday, October 18, 2018.

Cari DuVal's sermon to the children from Sunday, October 21, 2018.

Josie Carver: ""Imagine how much happier we would be, how much freer to be our true individual selves, if we didn't have the weight of expectations...?"

Dr. Jim Somerville's "Bible 101" class from Sunday, October 14, 2018.

Jim Somerville: "Some people get good hands and others don't. Here's what's in my hand: I was born white, male, and American, and in this world those cards are highly valued. When I compare my hand with the hand of a poor, black, uneducated woman from Somalia, I see how unfair life can be. It's not fair for her mostly because we live in a world where the majority of people seem to believe that light skin is preferable to dark skin, that the strength and swagger of men is to be rewarded over the nurture and service of women, that the kind of education you can get from books is more important than the kind of education you can get from life. In other words, we humans have decided what we value and what we don't, but it doesn't mean that God shares our values..."