May 11, 2025 | Inés Velásquez-McBryde | John 21:12-17
May 4, 2025 | Inés Velásquez-McBryde | Matthew 19:13-14, Mark 10:13-16, Luke 18:15-17 Jesus centers the children and informs everyone within earshot, including us, whether you’re a parent or not, that children belong and blesses them. He invites them, carries them, lifts them up, and welcomes them in his presence. He rebukes anyone who keeps […]
April 20, 2025 | Inés Velásquez-McBryde | Luke 24:1-12 NRSV Resurrection is about looking for the Living One among living ones. Those living into the way, the truth and the life of Jesus. Those who find life after death, not only eternal life, but present life. Resurrection is rising up and rising again as Jesus […]
March 23, 2025 | Inés Velásquez-McBryde | Matthew 14:13 and 22 This time, we will focus on the theme of Returning to the Mind and have a brilliant panel of therapists from our own Church familia speak to us. We are privileged to have the wisdom of Dr. Jennifer Arias [Clinical Psychologist], Dr. Eleanor Baylon […]
March 16, 2025 | Inés Velásquez-McBryde | John 15:1-11 In John 15, Jesus repeats the word “abide” 12 times in the famous statement, “I am the vine”. We lean into the common agricultural method of vineyards, science behind grapevines, and converse with the work of Susie Lipps and “Conversations in the Vineyard”. Grateful for the […]
March 9, 2025 | Inés Velásquez-McBryde | John 1:37-48 In John 1:37-48, we find two intimate conversations and the call narratives between Jesus and Peter and Jesus and Nathanael. The questions that lead Jesus and these disciples to interact, invite us into curiosity, and intimacy of relationship. The verb “abide” plays a particular role in […]
March 2, 2025 | Inés Velásquez-McBryde | Mark 8:27-30 In this pivotal moment in Mark 8, Jesus begins to make his way to Jerusalem and to the cross by asking 2 questions: Who do people say that I am? Who do you say that I am? Jesus asks 309 questions in the gospels and is […]
January 26, 2025 | Inés Velásquez-McBryde | Acts 16:11-15 and Phil 1:1-9 As we do a soft launch into the book of Philippians, we dig into the origin story of the Philippian church. Lydia and a group of women found the river church, outside of the city gates, as there is no synagogue in Philippi. […]
January 5, 2025 | Inés Velásquez-McBryde Epiphany means revelation and the wise magi that followed the stars found revelation in the dark night sky. Their rhythms were simple: waking, watching, and walking. God spoke in a language that anyone could understand.