Thomas’ response to the risen Jesus in John 20 isn’t a failure of faith, it’s one of the clearest, boldest confessions in the Gospel: “My Lord and my God!” This talk looks at doubt, wounds, belonging, and the kind of Jesus who meets honest questions without shame, and turns them into deeper trust.

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Resurrection peace doesn’t erase fear by force. It meets us in the middle of it, tells the truth about our wounds, and starts opening what fear has closed.

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In John 20:1–18, Easter doesn’t begin with clarity. It begins with grief, confusion, and the unsettling possibility that what looked like the end might not actually be the end. This Easter talk explores how resurrection often arrives before we have words for it, and how Jesus meets us in the aftermath with a hope that’s real enough to carry into ordinary life.

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Palm Sunday is full of excitement, praise, and big expectations. But beneath the celebration is a deeper question: what are we actually building our lives on? In this talk, we look at Jesus’ entry into Jerusalem alongside his words about building on rock instead of sand, and we confront how easy it is to admire Jesus without actually letting him reshape our foundations.

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In Matthew 5:38–48, Jesus takes us beyond “eye for an eye” and into the difficult, freeing work of loving our enemies. This talk explores retaliation, boundaries, St. Patrick’s story, and the strange way Jesus refuses to let harm have the final word in who we become.

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In Week 3 of our Lent series, we sit with Jesus’ intense words in Matthew 5:27–30 and talk about how desire and attention form us over time. We explore the “private means harmless” script, how triggers and habit loops get wired into our lives, and what it looks like to bring things into the light and enact wise boundaries that help us learn to see people, and ourselves, as whole again.

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Matthew 5:21–24 pushes past surface-level obedience and goes straight for what happens inside a person long before any obvious violence. Jesus starts with “don’t murder,” then goes upstream to anger that curdles into contempt, the kind that turns a human being into “empty-head,” “idiot,” “you’re nothing,” and calls it justified.

Jesus ties this to worship on purpose. You can’t practice contempt all week and then act like nothing’s happening when you show up to pray. When there’s rupture, the invitation is movement toward peace, with wisdom and safety guiding the process.

If anger has been feeling like fuel, clarity, or just having “standards,” consider what it’s been doing to your body, your relationships, and your ability to love. There’s another way to live. One that refuses contempt and practices peacemaking in ordinary places: home, work, online, everywhere.

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All of us have a running commentary in our heads: old family rules, church messages, cultural noise, our own shame and fear. Most of the time we don’t even notice it. As we step into Lent, we’re asking a simple but disruptive question: “Whose voice is that?”

In this Ash Wednesday–style gathering (on a Tuesday night, of course), we explore how Lent isn’t a spiritual performance contest, but a season to tell the truth: we’re finite, we’re loved, and we’re already being shaped by scripts we rarely examine. We sit with Jesus’ strange blessings in Matthew 5, name the quiet inner script that says, “I’m basically fine, I don’t really need to change,” and begin learning how to hear a different voice.

Whether you’re burnt out on religion, skeptical, or quietly hungry for something deeper, this talk invites you to:

• Pay attention to the loudest voices in your life

• See your grief, weakness, and questions in light of Jesus’ blessing

• Take up simple practices that help you hear God’s voice with more clarity

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What if God’s light doesn’t just comfort you, but actually complicates your life first?

In Week 4 of our “Strange Light” Epiphany series, we sit with the story from John 9 where Jesus heals a man who’s been blind since birth. Instead of a community celebration, everything blows up: neighbors argue, religious leaders clamp down, parents panic, and the man who can now see gets kicked out of his own community.

We explore how God’s revelation often raises more questions before it brings clarity, why we’re so drawn to blame and easy explanations, and what it means to live with honest faith when you can’t tie your story up with a bow. Along the way, we talk about systems that resist change, religion that prefers control over healing, and the courage it takes to say, “I don’t know everything, but I know this.”

If you’re carrying big questions, deconstructing, or just trying to follow Jesus with your eyes open, this one’s for you.

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When Jesus goes back to his hometown synagogue in Nazareth, the people who know him best are the ones who struggle most to see who he really is. Familiarity, “I already know this,” becomes a kind of spiritual anesthesia that keeps them from recognizing God’s strange light right in front of them.

This week of our “Strange Light” series sits with Luke 4:16–30 and Isaiah 61, exploring how pain can slide into entitlement, how we reduce people and even God to something manageable, and how grace refuses to stay inside our boundaries. We talk about work, relationships, and ordinary Tuesdays as the very places where God may already be present, asking us to wake up, pay attention, and “listen to our lives” again.

If you’ve ever felt numb in your faith, burned by religious certainty, or stuck in “same old, same old,” this is an invitation to notice where strange light might already be flickering in the familiar.

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