Zao Church Collective

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Zao Church Collective episodes

  • 7.14.19 Sunday School Horror Stories: Jonah & the Whale

    THIS WEEK: 

    "Man-Eating Monster Fish Sighted Off Coast of Joppa." 
    Jonah and the whale is another one what has cute animals, right?

    "The waters closed in over me; 

    the deep surrounded me;
    weeds were were wrapped around my head 
    at the roods of the mountains.
    I went down to the land
    whose bars closed upon me forever...." -Jonah 2:5-6

    This horror story has some truly terrifying elements. So much goodness in this one, too - come hear about the stubborn prophet who can offer healing truth to others but struggles in his own path. 

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    Join us this summer as we revisit those classic bible stories adults love to tell to children: David & Goliath, Jonah & the Whale, Noah’s Ark, and more. We love to tell these stories to kids because they feature children and/or animals, but on closer examination, these stories are MESSED UP. 

    Child soldiers, whales who swallow people whole, and (let’s face it) God’s genocide of basically the entire planet. We’ll revisit these stories with a more critical lens and discover that while the horror is real, so is the grace, beauty, and love of God.

     

    39 min
  • 6.23.19 Sunday School Horror Stories: Noah & the Ark

     

    Join us this summer as we revisit those classic bible stories adults love to tell to children: David & Goliath, Jonah & the Whale, Noah’s Ark, and more. We love to tell these stories to kids because they feature children and/or animals, but on closer examination, these stories are MESSED UP. 

    Child soldiers, whales who swallow people whole, and (let’s face it) God’s genocide of basically the entire planet. We’ll revisit these stories with a more critical lens and discover that while the horror is real, so is the grace, beauty, and love of God.

    THIS WEEK: We love telling this one to kids because.... animals! 

    We tend to gloss over the implications of God's intentional destruction of the known world and all but a handful of humans and those cute fuzzy animals. We leave out altogether the part where angels and humans were getting it on and giving birth to giants (google "Nephilim." it's cool. we'll wait.)
    Still, this story has much to teach us about making sense of chaos and destruction, trusting in the promise of God's protection, and how to reconcile the truth of God's love with a messy, violent bible.

     

    37 min
  • 6.9.19 Sunday School Horror Stories: Adam & Eve

    Join us this summer as we revisit those classic bible stories adults love to tell to children: David & Goliath, Jonah & the Whale, Noah’s Ark, and more. We love to tell these stories to kids because they feature children and/or animals, but on closer examination, these stories are MESSED UP.

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    Child soldiers, whales who swallow people whole, and (let’s face it) God’s genocide of basically the entire planet. We’ll revisit these stories with a more critical lens and discover that while the horror is real, so is the grace, beauty, and love of God.

    THIS WEEK: Adam and Eve is a totally chill, normal story about nudity, the origins of evil, and a trickster talking snake with legs. If that wasn't enough horror for you, we'll dive into the centuries of abusive theology that uses this story (incorrectly) to promote misogyny, heterosexism, transphobia, anti-science/7 day creationism.

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    Is there anything beautiful and redemptive about the creation story? Absolutely. We'll reclaim the beauty of God's artistic hand, the truth about gender and body expression, and the power of myth to speak truth.

    36 min
  • 5.26.19 Lost & Found: Finding Your Family

    Series: Lost & Found


    We all feel a little lost now and then. Sometimes we worry we've lost our way, other times we feel our value has all but disappeared, and we often lose each other in the midst of struggle.

    Come and hear of the God who calls us back home to love and celebration, who seeks us out when we have forgotten our own worth, and who finds every last one of those of us who have been forgotten.

    39 min
  • 5.12.19 Lost & Found: Finding Your Worth

    Series: Lost & Found


    We all feel a little lost now and then. Sometimes we worry we've lost our way, other times we feel our value has all but disappeared, and we often lose each other in the midst of struggle.

    Come and hear of the God who calls us back home to love and celebration, who seeks us out when we have forgotten our own worth, and who finds every last one of those of us who have been forgotten.

    37 min
  • 4.28.19 Lost & Found: Finding Home

    Series: Lost & Found


    We all feel a little lost now and then. Sometimes we worry we've lost our way, other times we feel our value has all but disappeared, and we often lose each other in the midst of struggle.

    Come and hear of the God who calls us back home to love and celebration, who seeks us out when we have forgotten our own worth, and who finds every last one of those of us who have been forgotten.

     

    27 min
  • 4.21.19 #ZAOLIVES: Resurrection (Easter)

    The name "Zao" is a greek word that means "to be among the living".

    This season, we are highlighting the ways that Zao as a community joins Jesus and the tradition of Jesus followers in seeking the fullness of life.

    Our world is a mixture of creative, vibrant, beautiful life, alongside systems of death, destruction and oppression. At Zao, we look to Jesus and one another to fully seek life and dismantle the mechanisms of death that plague us as individuals, communities, and the world.

    Together, #ZaoLives.

    32 min
  • 4.12.19 #ZAOLIVES: Living as Resistance (Palm Sunday)

    The name "Zao" is a greek word that means "to be among the living".

    This season, we are highlighting the ways that Zao as a community joins Jesus and the tradition of Jesus followers in seeking the fullness of life.

    Our world is a mixture of creative, vibrant, beautiful life, alongside systems of death, destruction and oppression. At Zao, we look to Jesus and one another to fully seek life and dismantle the mechanisms of death that plague us as individuals, communities, and the world.

    Together, #ZaoLives.

    29 min
  • 3.24.19 #ZAOLIVES: Lost Causes

    The name "Zao" is a greek word that means "to be among the living".

    This season, we are highlighting the ways that Zao as a community joins Jesus and the tradition of Jesus followers in seeking the fullness of life.

    Our world is a mixture of creative, vibrant, beautiful life, alongside systems of death, destruction and oppression. At Zao, we look to Jesus and one another to fully seek life and dismantle the mechanisms of death that plague us as individuals, communities, and the world.

    Together, #ZaoLives.

    40 min
  • 3.10.19 is #ZAOLIVES: Be Made Whole

    The name "Zao" is a greek word that means "to be among the living".

    This season, we are highlighting the ways that Zao as a community joins Jesus and the tradition of Jesus followers in seeking the fullness of life.

    Our world is a mixture of creative, vibrant, beautiful life, alongside systems of death, destruction and oppression. At Zao, we look to Jesus and one another to fully seek life and dismantle the mechanisms of death that plague us as individuals, communities, and the world.

    Together, #ZaoLives.

    56 min

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