This season of Lent, leading us to Easter 2024, we'll be walking through a series called Wounded Words: Jesus Speaks from the Cross. The series highlights the seven last "words" (phrases) Jesus speaks while being crucified. Themes and quotes from the book Cross-Shattered Christ (by Stanley Hauerwas) will be sprinkled throughout. In this episode, we hear Jesus say, "It is finished." This is much more than the resignation of a weary and beaten crucified man about the unavoidable end of life. It's a declaration of all that has been fulfilled and accomplished through the life, and death, of Jesus.   

This season of Lent, leading us to Easter 2024, we'll be walking through a series called Wounded Words: Jesus Speaks from the Cross. The series highlights the seven last "words" (phrases) Jesus speaks while being crucified. Themes and quotes from the book Cross-Shattered Christ (by Stanley Hauerwas) will be sprinkled throughout. In this episode, Jesus utters his shortest phrase from the Cross. His thirst reminds us of his humanity, but also points to deeper ways to think about what Christ is accomplishing at Calvary.   

This season of Lent, leading us to Easter 2024, we'll be walking through a series called Wounded Words: Jesus Speaks from the Cross. The series highlights the seven last "words" (phrases) Jesus speaks while being crucified. Themes and quotes from the book Cross-Shattered Christ (by Stanley Hauerwas) will be sprinkled throughout. In this episode, we explore one of the most heart-breaking sentences in the bible: "My God, My God, why have you forsaken me?" This cry from Jesus comes from a very specific place and represents much more than the isolation Jesus felt on the cross.  

This season of Lent, leading us to Easter 2024, we'll be walking through a series called Wounded Words: Jesus Speaks from the Cross. The series highlights the seven last "words" (phrases) Jesus speaks while being crucified. Themes and quotes from the book Cross-Shattered Christ (by Stanley Hauerwas) will be sprinkled throughout. In this episode, we observe Jesus joining together his mother and his close friend, enabling his mother to be cared for as his death approaches, but the scene also has more to teach us.  

This season of Lent, leading us to Easter 2024, we'll be walking through a series called Wounded Words: Jesus Speaks from the Cross. The series highlights the seven last "words" (phrases) Jesus speaks while being crucified. Themes and quotes from the book Cross-Shattered Christ (by Stanley Hauerwas) will be sprinkled throughout. In this episode, we focus on the two criminals hanging next to Jesus on their own crosses. One hurls insults at Jesus, but the other has a simple request, "remember me." 

This season of Lent, leading us to Easter 2024, we'll be walking through a series called Wounded Words: Jesus Speaks from the Cross. The series highlights the seven last "words" (phrases) Jesus speaks while being crucified. Themes and quotes from the book Cross-Shattered Christ (by Stanley Hauerwas) will be sprinkled throughout. With this first episode, we begin by looking at the grace Jesus offers when he utters, "Father, forgive them, for they do not know what they are doing." What does it teach us about the attitude of the Trinity toward us, how does it ask us to reflect on our need for forgiveness, and what does it teach us about how to offer forgiveness to others? 

In this episode of our sermon series Open Invitation, a verse-by-verse exploration of the gospel of Luke, we unpack how Jesus uses two references to Old Testament characters in response to a growing crowd that wants a sign. 

In this episode of our sermon series Open Invitation, a verse-by-verse exploration of the gospel of Luke, we observe Jesus in a heated debate with some religious leaders over his power and authority after they see Him perform a miraculous healing of deliverance.  

In this episode of our sermon series Open Invitation, a verse-by-verse exploration of the gospel of Luke, we see an extension of the teaching on prayer that Jesus began with the previous verses of Luke 11. He uses two "mini-parables" as bookends and sandwiches more direct instruction in between: "ask, seek and knock." 

In the next episode of our sermon series Open Invitation, a verse-by-verse exploration of the gospel of Luke, we look at the beginning verses of chapter 11. The disciples of Jesus see him praying and then ask him to teach them to engage this practice as he does. What follows is a shortened version of Matthew's similar account of the Lord's Prayer. It still has a lot to teach us today about a prayer-fueled, Jesus-centered Kingdom life!