7/2/16 1 Samuel 24:1-16, 22 Dave Crispell, Executive Director of Jubilee Home Rev. David Crispell is a Durham native and an ordained minister in United Church of Christ.  He graduated from Duke Divinity in 2011, and now serves as the Executive Director of Jubilee Home, a transitional home in Durham for young men returning to the community from incarceration.  David […]

6/26/16 1 Samuel 18:1-5 Chris Breslin   “Friendship…is born at the moment when one [person] says to another “What! You too? I thought that no one but myself…” –C.S. Lewis   “We are bound to each other, therefore I love you. You may bore me or wound me or otherwise become unattractive to me, but that doesn’t mean I’ll walk […]

6/19/16 1 Samuel 17:1-51 Chris Breslin “Darkness can’t drive out darkness, only light can do that.” –Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. “Jesus is, well, strange. He refuses to manipulate people through their stomachs; he refuses to rule people through an alliance with evil; and he refuses to guard his rule, and thus exalt himself, through a corruption of God’s […]

6/12/16 1 Samuel 16:14-23 Chris Breslin “A job is a vocation only if someone else calls you to do it for them rather than for yourself. And so our work can be a calling only if it is reimagined as a mission of service to something beyond merely our own interests. Thinking of work mainly as a means of self-fulfillment […]

6/5/2016 1 Samuel 16:1-13 Chris Breslin Scripture 1 Samuel 2:10 Luke 15:11-32 Matthew 26:39 1 Samuel 10:6 Philippians 3:7-8 1 Samuel 15:11 Isaiah 53:2-3 Philippians 2:6-8 Luke 1:52-54 Luke 4:18-19 Matthew 6:10 1 Peter 2:9  Further Reading on David The Art of Biblical Narrative by Robert Alter The David Story: A Translation of 1 & 2 Samuel by Robert Alter […]

5/29/2016 Austin Wilson Psalm 96 “God will cheat no one, not even the world of its triumph.” –W.H. Auden   Sing to the Lord a new song! Sing to the Lord, all the earth. Sing to the Lord, bless His name, Bring tidings every day of His rescue Recount among the nations His glory, among all the peoples His wonders. […]

5/22/2016 Chris Breslin 1 Thessalonians 5:12-24 “An ordinary simple Christian kneels down to say his prayers. He is trying to get into touch with God. But if he is a Christian he knows that what is prompting him to pray is also God: God, so to speak, inside him. But he also knows that all his real knowledge of God […]

5/15/2016 Chris Breslin John 14:15-31 “The Spirit is the shy member of the Trinity. He always points to Jesus.” –Dale Bruner “The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.” –Flannery O’Connor “Attending to people’s sexual and relational lives is a critical part of [the] journey of discipleship because we are connectional beings.” –Jonny Grant (from Divine […]

5/8/2016 Chris Breslin Ephesians 4:7-13 “Being a Christian was always about living by faith in Jesus’ sovereign Lordship in a world which didn’t much look as if he was in charge.” –NT Wright “One has the picture of a diver, stripping off garment after garment, making himself naked, then flashing for a moment in the air, and then down through […]

5/1/2016 Matt Hoffman Psalm 70 The aim of every [person] and indeed the perfection of his heart amounts to this – continual and unbroken perseverance in prayer, and, as far as it is allowed to human frailty, strives to acquire an immovable tranquility of mind and a perpetual purity. -Abba Issac This is something which has been handed on to us […]