06/07/2020 Isaiah 53 Chris Breslin   “God’s ‘yes’ will always have the final say over our ‘no.’ God’s justice will always have the final say over our injustice.” -Mika Edmonson, The Power of Unearned Suffering: The Roots and Implications of Martin Luther King, Jr.’s Theodicy   “…power is a gift and is principally given for setting people free.” -Sam Wells, […]

05/31/2020 Passages from Luke 1 & 2 Dr. Chris E. W. Green   Slides from May 31, 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 […]

Fr. Mike Boone passed away unexpectedly on Tuesday May 26, 2020 at his home in Bremerton, WA. He was the rector and dean of St. Charles Anglican Cathedral. While Mike was in Durham, he was an avid early supporter of Oak Church. He believed deeply and creatively our mission in Lakewood. He shared in the calling of hope, healing, and […]

05/24/2020 Mark 8:27-35 Joe Longarino   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 You Are What You Love by James […]

05/17/2020 Luke 15:11-32 Chris Breslin   “It’s the unlimited power to be there, to be faithful to and for a world that is deeply unstable and unjust and suspicious and uncooperative: the power to go on trying to get through at all costs, laboring and wrestling with the human heart…God is to be trusted as we would trust a loving […]

05/10/2020 1 Peter 2:2-10 Chris Breslin   Slides from May 10, 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 You […]

05/03/2020 Acts 2:42-47 Dr. Linda Gorham   Dr. Linda F. Gorham is the President and Founder of Spring in the Desert Ministries, Inc. She received her Bachelor of Science degree in Psychology from Morgan State University and her M.A and Ph.D. degrees in Applied Developmental Psychology from the University of Maryland Baltimore County. She received her Master of Divinity degree […]

04/26/2020 Luke 24:13-35 Christian DaPonte   Godly Play at Home Download Songs for Good Friday by Oak Music   More resources for the sermon and season: Reading Scripture in Light of the Resurrection (chapter in the Art of Reading Scripture) by Richard B Hays (and Ellen F. Davis) Can These Bones Live?: A Theology in Outline by Robert Jenson Miracles […]

04/19/2020 John 20:19-31 Chris Breslin   “When I saw him, I fell at his feet like a dead man. But he put his right hand on me and said, ‘Don’t be afraid. I’m the first and the last, and the living one. I was dead, but look! Now I’m alive forever and always. I have the keys of Death and […]

Five years ago (4/16/15) we hosted C. Christopher Smith for a talk and potluck conversation (sponsored by Duke Divinity School’s Thriving Rural Communities Initiative ). Chris Smith is editor of The Englewood Review of Books, and a member of the Englewood Christian Church community on the urban Near Eastside of Indianapolis.  Englewood is one of the churches whose experiences gave root to the concept […]