“As important as it is to love, it’s equally important for us to be loved. We use the phrase, “love God, love neighbor”, but that’s a shortened version. We should actually be loving neighbor, as we love ourselves. This implies that we need to be open loving ourselves first.”

—Pastor Bailey Brawner

“If our doors are truly open, it means we are truly open, open to God and the progression God is leading us in.”

—Pastor Bailey Brawner

“Through the gospel, we are being invited to open our minds to all that being a follower of Jesus entails, all that being the church entails. We are being invited to see past all the commercialization and the blurry-visioned ideals of church we know, so that God’s vision can be revealed.”

-Pastor Bailey Brawner

"There’s something profoundly telling about our tendency to like a side of Jesus that is loving and heals the sick and talks to children, but our distaste for a Jesus who challenges us to do better and be better. It says much more about our love of comfort than anything about him.”

-Pastor Bailey Brawner

"May we see the wisdom in our young people, leaders and prophets even now. And may we remember to look for sightings of God, our refuge and guide, knowing that we serve a God who promises us sacred relationship, now and always.”

-Pastor Bailey Brawner

“How can our prayer go beyond a set of words, and seep into our everyday action? How might prayer become an ongoing chance to orient ourselves again and again toward the kindom, that aspirational example that Jesus visioned for us.”

Pastor Bailey Brawner

“I thought only boys did that.” “I want to be a pastor too!”, she tells me. “I want that too”, I replied.

This week's sermon from Pastor Bailey explores Jesus' radical invitation for us to step into unimaginable things.

“When we ask ‘who is my neighbor’, the answer every time is yes, them too.”

-Pastor Bailey Brawner

“We are invited to say yes, to say yes to joy and yes to our call. You and I have been sent out, seemingly underprepared, unknown destination, but we have been sent, to bring peace and to be joy to those we encounter.”

-Pastor Bailey Brawner