Jesus heals a blind person, but it takes two encounters for the person to begin seeing clearly. Peter identifies Jesus as the Messiah but Jesus won't let him tell anybody else, then calls Peter Satan! These are both stories of mistaken identity. They have much to show us today.

We take a look at the flood story as literature, not as a simple children's story. Has the flood story ever bothered you? Does the idea of God wiping out most of humanity seem less than Christlike to you? Join us for an exhilarating ride through some rough seas on the way to new creation.

The multi-layered Transfiguration event reveals at least three very important things: (1) how to read the Bible,  (2) how to think about God and (3) the divinity and humanity of Christ.  This is one of the most important texts in the New Testament. 

The first time Jesus taught in public, a man called him the "holy one of God". Jesus rebuked him for it. This is what I call the "Rumpelstiltskin Effect". 

When Jesus called his disciples he said, "follow me and I will make you fishers of men." While many think of this as a call to evangelism, we take an historical/contextual look at what this might have meant in First Century Galilee. It might be much more radical than you think!

Richard Rohr speaks of life in two halves; the first half is the building of a strong 'container' or 'identity', the second half is finding the contents the container is to hold. In this message we consider the choosing of Nathanael and Peter's denial and restoration with these two halves of life in mind.

Why did Jesus need to be baptized? John the Baptist was calling people to repent and be baptized for the forgiveness of sin, but Jesus was without sin.  In this message we explore the cultural context of John's baptism and find some remarkable clues as to the epic battle that began with the baptism of Jesus.

In a highly patriarchal culture in which a man's place in society was determined by who his father was, what are the implications of a baby born without a human father? We propose that the implications are enormous, world changing, and that we're only beginning to consider them 2000 years later. 

The scandal of Christmas is that God is human. In this, God shows us how utterly different God is than all other human conceptions of the gods. At Christmas, God all powerful is revealed as God all powerless.

John the Baptist was asked four times, "Who are you?".  In response, he answered, "I am not" three times, and "I am" only once. The process of discovering who you are is often preceded by coming to a mature understand of who you are not.