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- Advent: Uncomfortable Love
As we continue in the Advent season, Jason Minnix reflects on the uncomfortable love of God through the contemplative practice of Lectio Divina [Matthew 1:18-25].
Reflection
- How am I being made vulnerable by the emergence of new life?
- Where do I sense the presence and absence of grace over this past year?
Resources
- Lectio Divina
33 min - Advent: Expectations
As we continue in the Advent season, Weylin Lee reflects on how we are invited to respond when our expectations of God don’t line up with reality [Matthew 11:2-6].
Reflection
- How can we practice curiosity around our unfulfilled expectations of God and our circumstances?
- Where and who are the margins in our life that we have overlooked?
- What expectations do we need to let go of?
Spiritual Practice
- Practice curiosity around your expectations. Think of something that might be disappointing, frustrating, or confusing for you right now. Reflect on how this disappointment might be tied to an expectation that we have of God. Be curious about the source of that expectation.
- Observe the margins. Who are the people in the margins of our life? How can we observe that God is already present in their lives?
Resources
- Film: It’s a Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood
28 min - Advent: Preparing the Way for Peace
As we continue in the Advent season, Jeff Chu reflects on how we are invited to experience and practice peace in the middle of the wilderness [Matthew 3].
Reflection
- What in your life needs to die?
- What are you trying to cultivate in your life this season?
Resources
- Book: Does Jesus Really Love Me?
41 min - Advent: Time
As we begin the Advent season, Gideon Tsang reflects on what we are invited to spend time on and what we can use this season for [Romans 13:11-14].
Reflection
- How can you rest in knowing that your awakening will find you in time without your own willpower?
- What parts of you are being made whole in this season of Advent?
Spiritual Practice
- Waking from sleep. What parts of your life are still asleep? What parts of your life are recently awakened? What parts of your life are disorienting right now?
- Examining our wholeness. What are our current exoskeletons? What parts of us are learning to stand on our own, connecting to Christ in us, the hope of glory?
Resources
- Vox’s Open Letter Regarding ECC
- Vox Values
- Vox Homily on How to Apply Scripture
32 min - Art of Neighboring
Virginia Cumberbatch explores how we have lost the art of neighboring and how we can practice it in our lives [Jeremiah 23:1-6].
Reflection
- How can you practice the art of neighboring this week?
- What does God ask of us in participating in the tapestry of community?
Spiritual Practice
- What is your responsibility in the art of neighboring? What does that look like for you here at Vox, in Austin, in this world? How do you neighbor (pursue shalom) in your sphere of influence?
- What does neighboring look like for you in 2020? What areas in our life have we allowed division or distance to keep us from one another? What spaces can we step into to love, care for and affirm one another more? Who will you see, hear and neighbor in this next season?
Resources
- Film: Won’t You Be My Neighbor
- Video: Personal Space with Shia LaBeouf
34 min - What's Alive
Jason Minnix reflects on how challenging the structure of our life and faith helps us explore the meaning behind them [Luke 20:27-38].
Reflection
- Do the rules and structure of my life support my "why" or have they replaced it?
- What's alive in me today? How can I carry it with love this week?
Spiritual Practice
- Refocus on your why. Refocus on where you’re going. What is my sense of purpose and meaning now?
Resources
- Video: The Righteous Gemstones
- Podcast: On Being (Angel Kyoto Williams)
- Vox's Rhythm of Life
37 min - Ordinary Saints - Luke 6
Kelly Cutbirth reflects on what makes a saint and what is the work of an ordinary saint [Luke 6:20-31].
Reflection
- Think of an achievement, success or possession in your life right now that you’re afraid to lose. Can you imagine God’s love for you even without that thing?
- Reflect on a part of yourself that you’ve made an enemy. What would it look like to practice love for that part of yourself?
Spiritual Practice
- Practice belief in your inherent worth. Think of something you’re afraid to lose: an achievement, approval, possession, loved one. Take time to wonder what deeper value you’ve attached to that thing (love, belonging, worth). Receive the reminder that you are inherently and unconditionally worthy.
Resources
- Film: JoJo Rabbit
- Film: Chocolat (Prayer Clip)
28 min - Lens of Humility
Weylin Lee reflects on how the lenses that we use to see ourselves and others might be helping or hurting our posture of humility [Luke 18:9-14].
Reflection
- How have we devalued others through our lens of contempt?
- Does our lens of comparison lead us to competition or curiosity?
- How can we put on a lens of mercy toward ourselves and others?
Spiritual Practice
- See without judgment. Think of someone you see with contempt. Objectively observe what you dislike about them. Consider how you may have been conditioned to dislike those things. Search for treasures buried in this person.
- See with curiosity. Meet with someone you compare yourself with. Hear their story with curiosity. Discover what their life has to teach you.
Resources
- Video: Portlandia (Did You Read It?)
- Podcast: On Being (Father Gregory Boyle)
- Vox Value: Posture
29 min - Prayer as Posture
Gideon Tsang reflects on how prayer might realign the posture of our soul and being [Luke 18:1-8].
Reflection
- How might prayer help keep your heart open to God, ourselves and others?
- How does the way you feel about yourself reflect on the way you feel about God?
Spiritual Practice
- Centering Prayer. Choose a sacred word as the symbol of your intention to consent to God’s presence and action within. Sitting comfortably and with eyes closed, settle briefly and silently introduce the sacred word as the symbol of your consent to God’s presence and action within. When engaged with your thoughts, return ever-so-gently to the sacred word. At the end of the prayer period, remain in silence with eyes closed for a couple of minutes.
Resources
- Book: The Cloud of Unknowing
30 min - The Desire to Grow - Luke 17
Jason Minnix reflects on our desire for growth and how healing is integrated into that process [Luke 17:11-19].
Reflection
- What is it like to be accepted in my moving towards and away from healing?
- Where do I sense healing in proximity to threats in my life today?
- What am I grateful for this morning?
Spiritual Practice
- Call out for mercy. Where am I keeping my distance and calling out? Invite God’s tender presence to be near you in your spaces of longing.
- Discern your capacity for growth. Who makes me uncomfortable? What’s my capacity to be near them and heal/grow? How much is too much? How much is too little? Ask for the grace to live between your limits.
Resources
- Film: The Peanut Butter Falcon
33 min
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The work of the people. Our weekly rhythm of being together as a larger community to worship and confess, to engage scripture and prayer, to celebrate eucharist, and to be sent back into the city with…
a benediction each and every week.