Together 4 Good: Making Sense of Life and Faith

All during the Easter Season, Intern Rita will be interviewing individuals to talk about ways that we can put the new life of Easter into practice. This week, she talks with her friend Sammy DiBiaso about the ways that listening and noticing the sounds of nature can connect us with the joy and new life of Easter resurrection.

All throughout Holy Week, Pastor Nate has been sharing poems that he has written that reflect on the different days and moments of Holy Week.  We conclude this poetic journey today with one final poem about Jesus' resurrection and Easter Sunday. This poem talks about the theological concept of bodily resurrection and the promise that is attached to believing that Jesus rose from the dead as a whole person.

All throughout Holy Week, Pastor Nate will share poems that he has written that reflect on the different days and moments of Holy Week.  We hope these poems provide you with a new way of looking at and understanding what Jesus' final moments of life mean for us today.

This episode is a poem about Holy Saturday and the theological importance of there being a day between Jesus' dying and rising. This poem deals with grief, mourning, and loss and the ways that the promises of Holy Week speak to these very human experiences.

All throughout Holy Week, Pastor Nate will share poems that he has written that reflect on the different days and moments of Holy Week.  We hope these poems provide you with a new way of looking at and understanding what Jesus' final moments of life mean for us today.

This episode is a poem about Good Friday that looks at the actions of Jesus' disciples, Pontius Pilate, and humans everywhere and how Jesus' death is actually a sacrifice that seeks to overcome our self-destructive behavior.

All throughout Holy Week, Pastor Nate will share poems that he has written that reflect on the different days and moments of Holy Week.  We hope these poems provide you with a new way of looking at and understanding what Jesus' final moments of life mean for us today.

This episode is a poem that examines the events of Maundy Thursday and the ways that Jesus' message was often conveyed in a way that goes far beyond words. 

All throughout Holy Week, Pastor Nate will share poems that he has written that reflect on the different days and moments of Holy Week.  We hope these poems provide you with a new way of looking at and understanding what Jesus' final moments of life mean for us today.

This episode is a poem reflecting on some of Jesus' actions early on during his final week in Jerusalem and how these actions carry a message and significance that stretch all the way back to Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden.

All throughout Holy Week, Pastor Nate will share poems that he has written that reflect on the different days and moments of Holy Week.  We hope these poems provide you with a new way of looking at and understanding what Jesus' final moments of life mean for us today.  

This episode is a poem Palm Sunday and the feelings and expectations in the crowd when Jesus entered Jerusalem on a donkey.  

This is the third episode in our Lenten series where we look at familiar Bible stories from different angles.  In this episode, Pastor Nate walks us through the story of Jesus turning water into wine while at the wedding in Cana.  Pastor Nate discusses some of the subtler details in this text and the ways that this, the first of Jesus' miracles, establishes the ongoing themes of Jesus' ministry.  Listen in for a whole new perspective on this familiar Bible story.