Ask. Seek. Knock. What is it you long for? What is it you seek? You are a co-creator with the Divine! Human beings have been given the incredible gift of choice, to be a co creator with the Divine! Not just choice about what we want to eat, or the color of shirt we will wear. But choice about our mind—the narratives it believes, the expectations it creates, and the questions it asks. Jessica Mitchell invites us to consider our relationship with our inner world. And to trust that our soul—the deepest place within us, where God is found—knows what to ask for. What to seek after. And on what doors to knock.

The Buddha, the Bible, and a Physicist walk into a bar. The bar is called “Impermanence.” And it’s a place where everyone knows your name, because everyone—and everything—is changing, evolving, and fading away. How can the practice of recognizing impermanence better fine tune our experience of Love? Well, that’s what Pastor Colby talks about in this talk titled “Go with the Flow of Nature’s M.O.”

A Christmas message from Pastor Kate.

In this season of Advent, we anticipate the arrival of a 1st century refugee seeking a home on the underside of the Empire. Guest speaker Jon Huckins shows us how we have the opportunity to experience, learn from, and walk with migrants fleeing for their lives just miles from the comfort of our own homes, and asks us how we might respond to the short-term needs while cultivating long-term relationships that lead to our collective healing.

Life is filled with paradox. As Christians, thanks to the Christmas Story, we should be prepared for such surprises, twists, and turns. In this sermon, Colby invites us to choose Hope, even when the current situation seems hopeless.

Soul Hacks: simple but effective solutions for problems of the soul. Join Pastor Colby as he offers a simple remedy for sleeping better, improved physical and psychological health, and an antidote for the dreaded case of social comparison.

Utilizing a beach ball, the crowd, and only 12 words, Pastor Colby completes our series on Community. Bottom line: building community (especially in a church) is so, so good, and simultaneously very difficult. But the challenges are worth it if we are willing to show up, be intentional, and with resilience chase after it.

Mathew Mitchell continues our series on Community with a discussion about race and the church. This sermon covers unconscious bias, white supremacy, and the role Christians might play in transforming the legacy of slavery that binds us all. Drawing from the powerful work of Bryan Stevenson and James Cone, the conversation centers around three truths, four paths towards reconciliation, and a challenge to envision the Christ we’ve resurrected from the cross as the black bodies we haven’t resurrected from the lynching tree. This is a charged topic delivered with grace, humor, and conviction.

Jessica Mitchell continues our series on Community. She talks about intimacy in community, and the ways fear might hinder us from moving closer to one another. Jessica invites us to consider that the ups and downs of relationship, and community, is normal — and in many ways, good. Even within community, we sometimes have to walk alone and in our own “wilderness.”

Pastor Kate asks us to practice gratitude for the kind of community we’ve already built and then to invite growth as we continue to build community. She shares a brutally honest conviction about her own way of relating to the world that might just be a growth edge for us all.