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Ken remembers the playground teeter-totter from being a childhood - the use it was designed for, and the way it was used for chaos instead.

But it captures how many times unity feels so close to us - we can almost touch it, and yet we can’t.

Ken mourns that teeter-totters are mostly gone now. Because there’s a joy in watching a child wait for someone to join them, to create community together, and then to see the dream realized.

Philippians 2:5-11

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As we continue through our series on the Apostles’ Creed, Ken wants to give us some perspective today.

Depending what we’re going through, our world is small or kinda big. And the world can get so big that it overpowers us, and we lose hope.

Astronauts see the world from space, and it changes the way they interact with it for the rest of their lives. There’s something profound that happens if we are willing to let our world be expanded.

Isaiah 40:10-14, 18-31

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When Ken was studying scripture in seminary, he had a professor who would always turn him back to the text. “Let it be fresh. Read it again.”

So Ken asks us to take the story of the Prodigal Son and read it again, and let it be fresh. Because it’s an easy story to miss the boat on. It’s not the story of a son - it’s the story of two sons, and of a father. Of selfishness, and self-righteousness. And learning to recognize the true message of God as Father.

Luke 15:11-32

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When Jesus meets with Nicodemus, he is stuck. He sees who Jesus is, but he can’t get past the practical and see what’s really happening. That’s our challenge, too.

God hasn’t just moved, he is MOVING, he is here and now WITH us. And our invitation to that is through His Son.

God is calling us to look out into the world and recognize that we’ve been given a foundation. We can look out into the world and seek the deeper questions of life.

John 3:1-17

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This is Ascension Sunday and Senior Sunday, and Ken finds some similarity between the two. Graduating high school closes a chapter, but it’s not an end - it’s the beginning of something else.

When Jesus returned from the dead, the disciples thought he would restore Israel, but instead, he’s suddenly gone, like David Blaine. The disciples are left stranded, sure that this is suddenly the end. But they’re wrong. There’s something they’re not expecting on the horizon.

Acts 1:1-13

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Ken considers an unexciting day of the week, when it’s just another Tuesday, and the world is getting you down. We meet the disciples after Jesus has been resurrected, as they are fishing, believing that the remarkable part of their lives is now over.

Because sometimes things don’t end the way you want them to. Sometimes they just end.

But sometimes when you think that you’ve been forgotten, you can discover an unbelievable amount of love. Sometimes a Tuesday doesn’t have to be just another Tuesday.

John 21:1-14

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In the story of Doubting Thomas, Ken feels that Thomas gets a bad rap. He’s not asking for anything extra, all he asks for is what everyone else already got. He wants the same resurrection experience as everyone else.

“How many times in the life of our faith do we feel like everyone else is experiencing a resurrection life, and we are missing out?”

John 20:19-31

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What dwells in your heart? Seriously, ask yourself that question today.

Sometimes it feels like we’re just playing 20 Questions with ourselves to figure out who we really are.

Luke 24:36-48

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The distance between Good Friday and Easter is waiting for us, because we know the end. But for the disciples and Jesus’ followers, it was just pain and loss.

But when they get to the tomb, they don’t find what they were looking for. Their plans of grieving are interrupted by by an amazing Word of God.

Luke 24:1-12

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