02/17/2019 Luke 6:17-26 Matthew Rehnborg   “The situation of the soul in contemplation is something like the situation of Adam and Eve in Paradise. Everything is yours, but on one infinitely important condition: that all is given. There is nothing that you can claim, nothing that you can demand, nothing that you can take. And as soon as you try […]

02/10/2019 Isaiah 6:1-11 Chris Breslin   “Holy ground is dangerous ground. The holy is never, never something of God that we can take as if we owned it and use it for our own purposes” -Eugene Peterson, The Jesus Way   “I became a detective of divinity, collecting evidence of God’s genius and admiring the tracks left for me to […]

02/03/2019 Luke 4:21-30 John Chandler   John Chandler is the Marketing and Communications Director for Help One Now, an NGO which empowers families in developing countries through high-capacity local leaders with proven solutions to end extreme poverty. John is the founding pastor of Ecclesia Networkchurch, Austin Mustard Seed, and hosted equipping resource, SermonSmith, a podcast about the craft of sermon […]

01/27/2019 Luke 4:14-21 Chris Breslin   “A Sabbath is a weekly Jubilee during which the powerful are humbled and brought low, and the poor and lowly are gifted space, love, and generosity.” -A.J. Swoboda   “Far too often, we have chosen blindness, even refusing the hands of friends who reached out and tried to lead us to the one who […]

01/20/2019 Isaiah 30:1-5, 12-22 Charlene Brown   Season Resources: Joy is for Epiphany, tooby Miroslav Volf (Christian Century) Living the Christian Year: Time to Inhabit the Story of Godby Bobby Gross   Scripture: Psalm 136:1 Isaiah 30 (The Message)   Songs for Today’s Worship Gathering: The Magnification by Walton I Woke Up This Morning (with My Mind on Jesus) by […]

01/13/2019 Luke 3:15-17, 21-22 Sarah Neff   “The Epiphany story that most tempts my memory is the story of Jesus’ baptism. There is John at the river Jordan, and there are all those unwashed people who have come for his baptism, and in the queue is Jesus, who is without sin, who shouldn’t be in that line with all those […]

01/06/2019 Matthew 2:1-12 Carolina Kammel & Ricardo Correa   A special collaborative Epiphany celebration with our friends from Centro de Alabanza Naciones Unidas. Stream the video of the worship gathering here.

12/23/2018 Luke 1:39-55 Mindy Erdmann (Bumper music:Because the Night is Longby Music from the Gathering Church (2010))   Mindy Erdmannworks for Intervarsity Christian Fellowship. Her love for the city began in 1994 when, as a student at the College of Wooster, she participated in the very first Cleveland Urban Plunge. She joined InterVarsity staff in 1998 in order to develop […]

12/16/2018 Luke 3:1-6 Carolina Kammel (Bumper music:Because the Night is Longby Music from the Gathering Church (2010))   Christmas Bells by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow A Carol for the Despairing (Christianity Today article)   Scripture Exodus 16 1 Samuel 23:14-16 Luke 4:1-14   This Sunday’s Songs (Oak Kids Christmas Pageant) Come Light Our Hearts by McCracken Hark the Herald Angels Sing by […]

Our conversation took place at Oak Church on December 13, 2018. Margot Starbuck facilitated the conversation in partnership with DurhamCares(directed by Reynolds Chapman). Lauren Daniel sang. Natasha Sistrunk Robinson (MA, Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary) is a writer, international speaker, leadership consultant, mentoring coach, and the visionary founder of the nonprofit, Leadership LINKS, Inc. She is author of Mentor for Life: Finding Purpose through Intentional Discipleship and the Hope for Us: […]