08/16/2020 Matthew 15:21-28 (Proper 15) Chris Breslin   We do not presume to come to this your table, O merciful Lord, trusting in our own righteousness, but in your abundant and great mercies. We are not worthy so much as to gather up the crumbs under your table; but you are the same Lord whose character is always to have […]

08/09/2020 Matthew 14:22-33 (Proper 14) Chris Breslin   “Faith is not a characteristic. Faith is not a personality trait. Faith is not a sanctified degree that you put on your wall. Faith is not even a possession that you have…Faith, even though it is a noun, best operates as a verb. Because if faith is anything it is that which […]

08/02/2020 Psalm 68:4-6a Rev. Meg Hoffman & Rev. Chris Breslin   Songs for Today’s Worship Gathering: Nothing to Fear by The Porter’s Gate Worship Project I Want to Walk as a Child of the Light by Thomerson I Shall Not Want by Assad/Brown New Wonders by McCracken

07/26/2020 John 11:14-44 Rev. Dr. Andy Byers   Slides for July 26, 2020 Godly Play at Home   More resources on Faith and the Apostles’ Creed: The Apostles’ Creed for Today by Justo Gonzalez The Cambridge Companion to Christian Doctrine ed. By Colin Gunton The Patient Ferment of the Early Church by Alan Kreider The Apostles’ Creed by Ben Myers […]

07/19/2020 John 21:9-19 Chris Breslin   “Kichijiro who has been the Judas figure throughout, turns out to be Fr. Rodrigues’s best friend, the most trusted confidant.  Kichijiro refuses to let Fr. Rodrigues give up his identity as a priest. As Andrew Garfield says Fr. Rodrigues’s last lines, “ “But our Lord was not silent. Even if he had been silent, […]

07/12/2020 Ephesians 3:10-21 Charlene Brown   “The “rulers and authorities”— both the earthly authorities and their shadowy heavenly counterparts— always tend to create societies and social structures in their own flat, boring image, monochrome, uniform and one-dimensional. Worse: they tend to marginalize or kill people or groups who don’t fit their narrow band of acceptability.  The church is to be, […]

07/05/2020 Colossians 3:1-17 Chris Breslin   “Hope sounds like a song in a weary throat.” -Pauli Murray   Slides from July 5, 2020 Godly Play at Home The Tragic History of “I Can’t Breathe” (NY Times)   More resources on Faith and the Apostles’ Creed: The Apostles’ Creed for Today by Justo Gonzalez The Cambridge Companion to Christian Doctrine ed. […]

06/28/2020 Acts 10:34-43 Chris Breslin “In his appearing we find neither a dualist rejection of the present world nor simply his arrival like a spaceman into the present world but rather a transformation of the present world and ourselves within it, so that it will at last be put to rights and we with it. Death and decay will be […]

06/21/2020 Ephesians 4:1-16 Chris Breslin   “[Picture a diver] stripping off garment after garment, making himself naked, then flashing for a moment in the air, and then down through the green, and warm, and sunlit water into the pitch black, cold, freezing water, down into the mud and slime, then up again, his lungs almost bursting, back again to the […]

06/14/2020 John 11:1-44 Chris Breslin   “I would not be a Christian apart from those tears.  Jesus’ wasteful tears.” –Steve Garber (recounted in Makoto Fujimura’s Tears for Fragile Emanations   Slides from June 14, 2020 Godly Play at Home   More resources on Faith and the Apostles’ Creed: The Apostles’ Creed for Today by Justo Gonzalez The Cambridge Companion to Christian […]