February 6, 2022 | Inés Velásquez-McBryde | Genesis 8:1-14 The receding of the waters after the flood story serves as a kind of metaphor for the global pandemic from which we continue to emerge from. Like Noah, we have been in survival mode for a long time. The receding waters invite us into a time […]
January 23, 2022 | Inés Velásquez-McBryde | Genesis 3:8-19 The curse in the garden has been seen as prescriptive for humanity and has distorted our view of God and each other, which has dehumanized women, men, and the marginalized. However, the curse is descriptive of the fall and not a blessing. The serpent came to […]
December 19, 2021 | Inés Velásquez-McBryde | Luke 2:8-20 The angels announce to the shepherds that Messiah Jesus was born. The shepherds are the least likely to get an invitation to see a King. Seen as dishonest people working a despised occupation. Yet the sign was that the king would be covered in straw in […]
December 12, 2021 | Inés Velásquez-McBryde | Luke 1:80 & 1:39-45 The story of Elizabeth and Mary is of a friendship that calls out the calling of God in you. Elizabeth sees with spiritual eyes the invisible hope and calls out the unseen. She is filled with the Holy Spirit and affirms and confirms that […]
Pastora Inés preaches on Luke 1:67-79.
On the last day of creation, God did not only rest, but God created the space and filled it with rest. Rest wasn’t an aftermath of creation, but part of the math of creation. God doesn’t necessarily prescribe how to rest, but he invites us to rest for the purposes of intimacy and sanctification, as […]
Genesis 1:1-2 — In the beginning we find that before the spoken word of God is the wind of God, the Spirit-wind that hovers over the darkness and over the deep. This Spirit from God hovers to heal and to create in a sacred pause as Creator-God begins to imagine and be curious about God’s […]
Acts 10:1-44 – The story of Peter and Cornelius tells us the story of what the Spirit is doing and how the Spirit is on the move. It is only by the Spirit’s prompting and purposeful invitation that both men move towards each other, crossing ethno-racial lines that otherwise would have kept them apart due […]
Pastora Inés preaches from Psalm 139:1-17. She studies the anatomy of this psalm by looking at the verbs of God that show us the strength of God in contrast to the location of the psalter that shows the reach of God. Even though the word love is not mentioned in the psalm, the love of […]
