For the fourth week of Advent, Pastors Amanda and Kris invite listeners to reflect on what they most love about the Christmas season. Then they discuss the role of Joseph in the story from Matthew 1:18-25. The ancient tradition of engagement and implications of divorce are shared from the book The First Advent in Palestine, by Kelley Nikondeha. Engaging with the theme, “What Child IS This?” prompts deeper questions and looks beyond the lullaby.

For the third week of Advent, Pastors Amanda and Kris invite listeners to consider small moments of joy that can empower resiliency. Then they discuss the story of the angel’s visit to Mary from Luke 1:26-38. Engaging with the theme, “What Child IS This?” prompts deeper questions and looks beyond the lullaby. The Blue Christmas service is also explained and encouraged.

Continuing this Advent series, Pastors Kris and Amanda invite listeners to consider Advent traditions that make the season more sacred. Then they discuss the story of Zechariah from Luke 1:5-25. Engaging with the theme, “What Child IS This?” prompts deeper questions and looks beyond the lullaby. The question of peace is always a matter of perspective.

Beginning a new season and a new series, Pastors Kris and Amanda invite listeners to consider setting an Advent intention to make the season more sacred. Then they discuss the setting and scene of the Christmas story from Luke 2:1-5. Engaging the theme, “What Child IS This?” prompts asking deeper questions and looking beyond the lullaby. Several quotations are share from the book The First Advent in Palestine, by Kelley Nikondeha.

This episode takes its inspiration from Isaiah 65: 17-25. Anticipating the beginning of Advent, Isaiah 65 has us looking back as well as forward. The promise and good news for the people then, and God’s people now, is that anxiety can be overcome with hope. In God’s creation, there is joy.

This episode is a Bible Study conversation about Psalm 145. Pastors Kris and Amanda invite listeners to consider new ways to make the ancient words become relevant by translating and updating with their favorite names, adjectives, and descriptions of God, from A to Z. Can we find ways to praise God every day? Can such praise help us see a new vision of the world as God intends it to be?

This episode invites new perspectives on a familiar story about Zacchaeus. Pastors Kris and Amanda invite listeners to consider looking at the story from Luke 19:1-10, from a variety of angles. As we celebrate God’s “Transforming Love,” we also acknowledge that we first have to be open to receiving God’s amazing grace before we can share it with others.

This episode continues the focus on stewardship, emphasizing “What We Can Do.” Pastors Kris and Amanda invite listeners to focus on humility as the lesson from “The Parable of the Pharisee and the Tax Collector,” from Luke 18: 9-14. The hook in this story may be our temptation of who to identify with, yet it reminds us that true satisfaction comes from God’s loving presence.

This episode continues the focus on stewardship, emphasizing “What We Can Do.” Pastors Kris and Amanda invite listeners to consider both an attitude of gratitude and the power of persistence. We can learn from the widow in Luke 18:1-8  how to make “good trouble.” We celebrate that even when we are not, God is always steadfast and faithful.

This episode introduces a new series with a focus on stewardship, “What We Can Do.” Pastors Kris and Amanda invite listeners to consider a spiritual framework to approach how we respond with gratitude to all of God’s gracious generosity. In the scripture reading, the disciples want their faith to increase. Perhaps Jesus is less about increase and more about sufficiency. The question is, what are we doing with what we have? If we have more than a mustard seed of resources, time, and faith, we can change the world.