05/13/2018 1 John 5:9-13 Chris Breslin   “How is it possible that the gospel should be credible, that people should come to believe that the power which has the last word in human affairs is represented by a man hanging on a cross? I am suggesting that the only answer, the only hermeneutic of the gospel, is a congregation of […]

05/06/2018 1 John 5:1-6 Chris Breslin   “If we ask the question, ‘Where might you expect to find the baptized?’ one answer is, ‘In the neighbourhood of chaos’. It means you might expect to find Christian people near to those places where humanity is most at risk, where humanity is most disordered, disfigured and needy. Christians will be found in […]

04/22/2018 1 John 3:16-24 Chris Breslin Slides from April, 2018 Scripture: John 3:16 Matthew 25:40 1 John 4:19 Romans 8:14-17, 28 Psalm 139 Philippians 2:5-11 John 15:5-10 (The Message) Songs for Today’s Worship Gathering: Love is Even the Name by Walton Come, Light Our Hearts by McCracken Father, Let Your Kingdom Come by Porter’s Gate Worship Come Thou Fount of […]

04/15/2018 Testimony Katie DeConto, Jeremiah Dodson, Matt Hoffman, Meg Hoffman Ecclesia Network

04/15/2018 1 John 3:1-7 Chris Breslin “In the New Testament, there is an ongoing ministry of reminding.” –Bruxy Cavey “’We are an eschatological people.’ We’re called to create a picture of God’s dream in the present.” –Jürgen Moltmann via Danny Prada “God is calling us to embody our protest…through the building of relationships around the table.” –Brad Nelson Geoff & […]

04/08/2018 1 John 1:1-2:2 Chris Breslin “The point of the resurrection…is that the present bodily life is not valueless just because it will die…What you do with your body in the present matters because God has a great future in store for it…What you do in the present—by painting, preaching, singing, sewing, praying, teaching, building hospitals, digging wells, campaigning for […]

04/01/2018 John 11:17-44 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 While the symbolism of hot cross buns doesn’t share the sacredness of bread and wine, it still serves to remind us of the dark wonder of this day. We cannot make it […]

Baptismal Testimonies and Liturgy Gary Davis & Matthew Fox April 1, 2018

03/30/2018 Isaiah 52:14 & 53:1-6; John 18-19 Chris Breslin “Like the lynching tree in America, the cross in the time of Jesus was the most ‘barbaric form of execution of the utmost cruelty,’ the absolute opposite of human value systems.” –James Cone “Paul understood not as an accumulation of misdeeds, but as a Power with a death grip on the […]

03/25/2018 Matthew 21:1-11/John 9:1-14; 35-41 Joe Longarino Songs for Today’s Worship Gathering: Come Light Our Hearts by McCracken Hosanna (Praise is Rising) by Brown/Baloche Heal Us by Cowper/Twit/Morgan King of My Heart by McMillan All Who are Thirsty by Brown/Robertson What the Lord Has Done in Me by Morgan Doxology Go further: The Testimony of the Beloved Disciple by Richard […]