This episode was recorded by Matt McCoy. You can read the original post and look at the photos here: https://springchurchbellingham.com/springchurchblog/whatdoweholdonto 

Audio recording of Jessie Bloss reading an article written by Emma McCoy about Zaccheus available to read here.

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The prayer of the examen is often prayed at the end of the day in order to give thanks, reflect, and look forward to the day ahead. This prayer is to help us identify the different “magnets” that pulled our heart’s compass away from God and onto something else today. 

This Sunday Matt & Ryan will be guiding us as we revisit the story of Jesus meeting the woman at the well. Here’s a question to be thinking about as we prepare for Sunday… who would you want to preach the good news to your neighborhood: Jesus himself, one of his disciples, or the social outcast?

Read by Matt McCoy

Spring Church wants to be a church that is good for hurting people who hurt people. But if I’m being honest with myself, there are a lot of days when I would like to strike out the “who hurt people” bit and settle for simply being good for hurting people. Being good for hurting people is pretty straightforward, but being good for hurting people who hurt people is something that sometimes feels impossible….

Living for others with what the Dalai Lama and AA both reveal is the art of happiness. We're going to look at how Jesus' friendship with unexpected people transforms how we love other people (even people we don't like!) over the next several months at Spring Church. 

https://springchurchbellingham.com/events/may22commontablechurchgathering

This is our last service to look at the story of Jesus calming the storm, and we’ll spend a little bit of time together reflecting on where we’ve been together.

https://springchurchbellingham.com/springchurchblog/hopeisintheboat 

Was there ever a time when you talked about Jesus with a friend who doesn’t know Jesus, and that conversation brought you and your friend hope? Stephen Colbert demonstrated an example of what this looks like on national TV just this past week. On Sunday at 6:30pm (more details in bio) we’ll be reading Matthew 8 and discussing how the storms of life can point us to hope in Jesus and share our hope with others.

The Greek word in our story for “anxious” does not mean the same thing as the medical condition we know as “anxiety.” Modern people like us can read the word “anxious” and think of a debilitation physical and psychological state of apprehension of a real or imagined threat. That’s not what Jesus is talking about here, so rest in knowing that Jesus still welcomes you and loves you, even if you struggle with anxiety. The Greek word for “anxious” has more to do with our human habit of relying on something other than God for what we need, and our preference to fret, stew, plan, and ponder for ourselves, because it’s hard to hope in Jesus when we know he might not give us what we want.