Still Speaking with Ivanhoe Church

This week, Pastor Kris and Shelley discuss the grace that provides the opportunity to begin again; how our faith, through Christmas and Easter, allow us a vision of God as the fully human and fully divine redeemer.

This week, Pastor Kris and Host Shelley discuss Isaiah 65, where, when we are at our most hopeless, the prophet offers us a magnificent vision God’s new heavens and earth.

This week, Pastor Kris and Shelley review the story of Zacchaeus the tax collector, and the transformation taking place as Jesus calls on him to be his host. Join with us in conversation about who is transformed in this story.

Pastor Kris and Shelley acknowledge highlights along the road to our tenth podcast and reflect on the value of 'just showing up.'

Pastor Kris and Shelley continue their conversation on prayer, focusing on the parable of the Pharisee and the tax collector in Luke 18: 9-14.

This week, Pastor Kris and Shelley discuss Luke 18: 1-8, and the value of a persistent spirit, remaining faithful to God and our neighbor when our culture makes it easier to serve our own interests.

This week, Pastor Kris and Host Shelley speak about 2 Timothy 1:1–14, and particularly about our heirloom of faith, passed down through generations, and how we serve often because we have been served.

This week, Pastor Kris and Host Shelley discuss Jeremiah 32:1-3a, 6-15, and how Jeremiah’s investment in land, though knowing they will most certainly all be taken away into exile under Babylonian siege, is a symbol—a very material sign—of audacious hope. Pastor Kris brings us this quote from Walter Bruggemann: "The prophet is the one who dares to speak such a future that is out beyond all evidence."

This week, Pastor Kris and Host Shelley discuss 1 Timothy 1:12-17. The epistle speaks to the power of God’s grace that, by its overflowing abundance, allows everything to be made new. Where each new day is a gift, we have in every moment of every day an opportunity to start anew.

This week, Pastor Kris and Host Shelley really get into the guts of the matter as they discuss how we are called to be compassionate through the letter from Paul to Philemon.