June 16, 2024 | Dr. Phil Allen, Jr. | Matt 11:28; Psalm 46:10; Luke 22:31-32; 39-46 The liminal spaces and seasons (the in-between), also called transitions, can be challenging, scary, and confusing, but also exciting and hopeful. Jesus’s life, from his birth to death, resurrection, and ascension, is thirty-three years of an in-between season […]

 June 18, 2023 | Phil Allen, Jr. | Luke 4:18 The experience of the enslaved who were actually free in Texas long before 1865 (what we now celebrate as Juneteenth), like the experience of the Israelites in the wilderness who were set free from Egypt, become metaphors for a liberating God who remembers us […]

August 21, 2022 | Phil Allen, Jr. | Acts 8:9-25 Access to the power of the Holy Spirit is not obtained through the currency of our own resources (gifts, skills, talents, network, social status, or wealth). But access does cost. We tap into and become stewards of the power of the Spirit with the currency […]

February 20, 2022 | Phil Allen, Jr. | Genesis 9:25-27 This message challenges our efforts to “deconstruct” our faith/theology through a brief look at Genesis 9:25-27, the so-called “Curse of Ham” passage, and the interpretive malpractice that many theologians engaged in hundreds of years ago. The interpretation of this passage was intended to justify the […]

Sometimes prophetic revelation from God is not insight but inquiry. Just as God asked many questions in the biblical narrative, God does the same with us today and invites us to engage the right questions relevant for addressing the issues of our time. God responds to Israel in a court scene in Micah 6:6-8 with […]

Our brother and friend, Pastor @philallenjrig, brought us a word on prayer that impacted us greatly. He brought us into the presence of God and placed our hands in God’s hands. May this message bless you as it did us. And head over to our Facebook page to see the full sermon and service.