March 29, 2024 | Mondo and Salena Scott, Mike Hale A contemplative liturgy of sight, sound, and solidarity as we center a table of remembrance and reflect on the cross of Christ. This Good Friday Observance included musical, poetic, and visual exploration where we meditated on the unjust crucifixion of Jesus and sought solace […]
March 24, 2024 | Bobby Harrison | Mark 11 In our bilingual Palm Sunday service, we reimagined the biblical narrative of Jesus riding in on a donkey through the eyes of a little girl and her family. May this immersive, imaginative tale bring new eyes and ears to a familiar pillar of our Easter […]
March 17, 2024 | Sandy Lee Schaupp | Matthew 26:26-29, Revelations 7:9 This sermon explores the question, “What keeps us from pondering heaven?” Sandy vulnerably shares her own journey with how the fear of death or assumptions about who gets to be in heaven blocked her from pondering heaven. She invites listeners to actively […]
March 10, 2024 | Bobby Harrison | John 12:23-25 In this sermon, we look at the invitation Jesus gives us in the Gospel of John to release our whole lives unto God in order for the fullness of God to have its way with us.
March 3, 2024 | Inés Velásquez-McBryde | John 6:1-14 In the miracle of the feeding of the 5,000, if we count women and children, Jesus actually fed about 15,000+. Jesus sees the marginalized and hungry crowds and invites his disciples to provide. A young boy brings his sack lunch that maybe his mom baked […]
February 25, 2024 | Angela Scott Lee
February 18, 2024 | Inés Velásquez-McBryde | John 6:25-36 THE VOICE translation Pastora Inés introduces us to our Lent series: Bread and Body which will carry us all the way to Easter. In this story, Jesus invites us to the tables that he sets and calls himself the “bread of life”. As we enter […]
February 4, 2024 | Bobby Harrison | Luke 15 In this online service, we took time to re-read together the story of the prodigal sons in Luke 15. And through the lenses of social locations and cultural backgrounds, we gave ourselves the gift of reimagining this story in such beautiful, collaborative ways. The reflections […]
January 28, 2024 | Inés Velásquez-McBryde | Mark 4:1-10 In the parable of the sower, Jesus invites the conditions that would make the seed of the Word to remain, take root, sprout, and bring forth fruit. Soils need sustainable rhythms to receive this word. Instead of asking “What soil am I?” perhaps our agency invites […]
January 21, 2024 | Nicola Patton | Psalm 133 It’s easy to get caught up in doing so much church that we forget about community. But God cares more about community than about church. We have been created in and for community by a communal God. It is part of our human nature to […]