04/21/2019 Isaiah 11:1-10 Chris Breslin   “Resurrection means the worst thing is never the last thing.” -Frederick Buechner   Scripture: Psalm 139 Genesis 1 Genesis 15 Luke 1:26-55 Genesis 3 Genesis 11 Genesis 16, 21 Genesis 25 2 Samuel 11 1 Corinthians 15:12-19 Revelation 22:1-3 Philippians 2:10-11 2 Corinthians 5:17   Slides for April 21, 2019   Songs for Today’s […]

04/19/2019 Chris Breslin   “The symbol of the cross in the church points to the God who was crucified not between two candles on an altar, but between two thieves in the place of the skull, where the outcasts belong, outside the gates of the city. It does not invite thought, but a change of mind. It is a symbol […]

04/14/2019 Matthew 21:1-17 Matthew Rehnborg (Bumper music: God Be In My Head by Ryan Gustafson of the Dead Tongues featured on Hymns from the Gathering Church (2011))   “Scripture is like a river, broad and deep, shallow enough here for the lamb to go wading, but deep enough there for the elephant to swim.” -Gregory the Great   Scripture: Jeremiah 7:1-15 […]

04/07/2019 Matthew 25:31-46 Chris Breslin (Bumper music: God Be In My Head by Ryan Gustafson of the Dead Tongues featured on Hymns from the Gathering Church (2011))   “Proximity has taught me some basic and humbling truths, including this vital lesson: Each of us is more than the worst thing we’ve ever done. My work with the poor and the […]

03/31/2019 Matthew 25:10-13 Andre Franklin (Bumper music:God Be In My Head by Ryan Gustafson of the Dead Tongues featured on Hymns from the Gathering Church (2011))   Andre Franklin is the pastor and planter of Vinea Church. The Franklins (wife Terri and little girl Mia) are native Texans who moved to the East Durham community over a year ago. Andre […]

03/24/2019 Matthew 22:1-14 Chris Breslin (Bumper music: God Be In My Head by Ryan Gustafson of the Dead Tongues featured on Hymns from the Gathering Church (2011)) “The living of a [person’s] life, day by day, is the only preparation for the great moment. Day by day….The great moment is never something that is irrelevant to the life you are […]

03/17/2019 Matthew 20:1-16 Chris Breslin (Bumper music:God Be In My Head by Ryan Gustafson of the Dead Tongues featured on Hymns from the Gathering Church (2011))   “All my stories are about the action of grace on a character who is not very willing to support it, but most people think of these stories as hard, hopeless, and brutal.” -Flannery […]

03/10/2019 Matthew 18:15-35 Matthew Rehnborg (Bumper music: God Be In My Head by Ryan Gustafson of the Dead Tongues featured on Hymns from the Gathering Church (2011)) “God approaches our minds by receding from them. We can never fully know God if we think of God as an object of capture, to be fenced in by the enclosure of our […]

03/03/2019 Luke 9:28-36 Chris Breslin   “Writing about music is like dancing about architecture.” -Elvis Costello (maybe, or David Byrne, Frank Zappa, Brian Eno, Thelonius Monk…)   Christ plays in ten thousand places, Lovely in limbs, and lovely in eyes not his To the Father through the features of men’s faces. -Gerard Manley Hopkins from As Kingfishers Catch Fire   […]

02/24/2019 Psalm 37:1-11, 39-40 Chris Breslin   “The more deeply we grow into the psalms and the more often we pray them as our own, the more simple and rich will our prayer become.” -Dietrich Bonhoeffer   “… in our suffering and perils, we find ourselves united with the Mysterious Companion who looms up at our side, or indeed within […]