This week, Pastor Shaq discusses the Advent theme of love. Mary’s Magnifcat is a call to every person who has been overlooked, margianlized, exploited, oppressed, or cast aside that the Messiah is coming. He will scatter the proud, bring down rulers from their thrones, lift… Read More »Love
This week, Carrie Buckner continues our Advent series. The crowds are coming to John at the Jordan asking to be baptized. He warns the crowds to bear fruit in keeping with repentance, and when asked what they must do John replies by instructing them to… Read More »Joy
This week, Nick Ventresca, pastor of The Barn Community Church in Doylestown, PA visited to talk through the hope we can find and revel in through the Advent season. We talked through one of Jeremiah’s prophecies to God’s people – that one day hope would… Read More »Hope
We don’t lament enough. When people hurt us, when we experience distress, when we feel insecure or vulnerable, when we’ve been hurt, wounded, or discarded, when we experience abandonment, when we feel like we’re surrounded by evil and see or experience oppression or exploitation, we’re… Read More »Lament and the act of trusting God
The Presidential election was this past Tuesday. It’s true the election of Donald Trump as President for the second time will shape the context in which individual Christians and the church are to live out Jesus’ mission in meaningful, tangible ways. Yet, the church’s mission… Read More »We do the work of repair and renewal
This week, Dennis Allan talks through the ways Jesus’ “city on a hill” language has been co-opted by American political leaders, both Democrats and Republicans, to ascribe to America a divinely mandated role in the world similar to Old Testament Israel. But, Jesus wasn’t talking… Read More »Jesus is the hope of the world, not America
This week Julia Allan walks us through why, as citizens of the Kingdom, we are to develop and hold a consistent ethic of life. This means we’re invited by Jesus to value life at every moment and in every context. And it’s a reminder that… Read More »We value life at every moment
This week, Pastor Shaq Hager talks through the story of God’s people beginning in Genesis, through the prophets, and into the New Testament to chart a biblical theology of seeing, caring for, and uplifting the vulnerable. To be people of the Kingdom, we must take… Read More »We see and uplift the vulnerable
We’re not supposed to be lovers of money, and we are supposed to be generous. Oftentimes, this is where teaching on what financial stewardship means for citizens of the Kingdom. But, as Benjamin Chua talks through this week, Jesus has much more in mind in… Read More »We love God, not Mamon
This week, Dennis Allan continued our series by exploring what it means for followers of Jesus and the church to cultivate a prophetic voice in today’s culture. In the Hebrerw Scriptures prophets functioned as God’s spokespeople, speaking God’s words and communicating God’s will to God’s… Read More »We are prophets to the empire, not chaplains