Connecting with God in the least suspecting circumstances. Sermon begins at 12:15.

 

Finding and using our power for the betterment of the world. Sermon begins at 14:15.

For what it’s worth, several “cloud” moments happened this week, synchronicities as Carl Jung called them, each seeming to nudge me to contemplate how Clouds might just be a sacrament, a visible sign of God’s invisible grace – even in the midst of doubt. Sermon begins at 12:56.

Leviticus serves a model for ridding our sacred paces of pollutants—impure touch, comments, or gestures, and abusive power—so that we can ensure the divine presence remains in our spaces. Judaism believes that impurity can cause God to be absent—but what about when our actions in religious spaces causes harm and makes it feel to others like God has left? Our work is to make spaces where brokenness and wholeness can exist side by side because brokenness is a mirror to shalom. Sermon begins at 21:40.

Can I Get a Witness? Six preachers, six perspectives.

Becca Stevens, Bonnie Smith-Whitehouse, Hal Cato, Al Andrews, Cynthia Lee, and Dave Ragland. Sermon begins at 12:45.

Where and how do we experience the suffering Jesus? Sermon begins at 12:30.

St. Paul wrote the letter of 1 Corinthians as a wake-up call about the inevitable divisions that can, and will, rise when over-inflated egos go unchecked. But not only did St. Paul spot the problem (being too full of ourselves), he recommended another way, namely, the way of the cross. Sermon begins at 14:33.

Home is in part where we have been, but it is mostly where we are going, and where it is we can love one another and break bread. We long for community as the deer long for the water brooks. We get glimpses. These glimpses are the Beloved Community that Dr. King preached about. He knew that home would come when we stick together to work tirelessly for love and justice. Sermon begins at 13:20.

What we need to take from Ah-Ha, Epiphany moments are this:

People go out seeking them—they rarely find you. 

No matter how much you prepare—its still a surprise.

People never go back the same after having an epiphany. 

Epiphanies always involve the community. They cannot be individual. Our journeys cannot be in isolation.

Epiphanies are beautiful and they can be costly, and our call is to live into them. Sermon begins at 14:37.