“Cultivating an empathetic imagination isn’t all that complicated. It’s simply asking, in some intentional way, ‘What does it feel like to be you, and how can I join you there?’”
Text: 1 Corinthians 9:19-23
Radical Hospitality: The Buried Seed - June 11, 2017
June 11, 2016 Text: John 12:20-33
Spirit of God, Honey - June 4, 2017 - Pentecost Sunday
Pentecost Sunday
June 4, 2016 Text: Acts 1:1-8
E Pluribus Unum - May 28, 2017
May 28, 2016 Text: John 17:1-11
Allow Me to Reintroduce Myself - May 21, 2017
Alyssa Aldape
May 21, 2016 Text: John 14:15-21
Matters of Life & Death: Faith in the Second Half of Life - May 14, 2017
“The prevailing task of the second half of life is to let go of anger and forgive. To forgive everybody--your family, your church, your nation, your enemies, yourself...and ultimately, to forgive God because life isn’t fair.”
May 14, 2016 Text: Luke 15:11-31
Matters of Life & Death: Faith in the First Half of Life - May 7, 2017
May 7, 2016 Text: Luke 15:11-31
Matters of Life & Death: To Live on Purpose - April 30, 2017
April 30, 2016 Text: Psalm 90:1-6, 10, 12
Matters of Life & Death: Why We Hate Death - April 23, 2017
“The first word about death must be the one we already know to be true in our gut, and the truth Scripture affirms: Death is our enemy. And yet, we have a Friend...”
Text: 1 Cor 15:20-26
Matters of Life & Death: The Death of Death
“Death isn’t finished hurting us down here. But the news of Easter is that no tomb you ever enter—least of all the one with your name on it—will be able to hold you in the end, because death cannot keep what Jesus Christ holds in his hands.”
Text: 1 Corinthians 15:20-22, 51-57
Turning Points: The Cheering Stones - April 9, 2017
On the first Palm Sunday, Jesus told the religious cynics: “If these people don’t praise me, the very rocks will cry out.” Which is to say: God’s song is bigger than you and me. It’s deeper than our disillusionment and greater than our doubt. God’s song runs through all creation.
Turning Points: The Graveside Story - April 2, 2017
We see Christ in a cemetery, staring into the grave of a friend. What do we do when someone we love dies? Learn from Jesus how to navigate our grief.
Turning Points: The Last One You’d Expect - March 26, 2017
“When other people see you, what do they see? A body? An age? A gender? A haircut? A tattoo? This is not how God sees, who looks deep into the real heart of your real life.”
Text: 1 Samuel 16:1-13
Turning Points: The Thirsty Woman - March 19, 2017
When Jesus meets up with Samaritan woman at the well in the town of Sychar, there are three significant barriers that really ought to have prevented these two from any kind of conversation: Race. Religion. Gender. (Sound familiar today?) So what does Jesus do with barriers like these?
Turning Points: The Night Visitor - March 12, 2017
Text: John 3:1-16
Turning Points: The Balcony- March 5, 2017 (Pastor Sick - No Audio)
Pastor Julie was sick this Sunday.
Pursuing an Elusive God - February 26, 2017
Our preacher this morning is Dr. E. Glenn Hinson, a world-renowned church historian and respected and sought-after leader in Christian Spirituality, who sees himself as very much a Baptist while also describing himself as a “Bapto-Quakero-Methedo-Presbyterio-Lutherano-Episcopo- Catholic.”
Glenn earned degrees from Washington University in St. Louis (B.A.), the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary (B.D., Th.D.), and Oxford University (D.Phil.). During his academic career he taught on the faculties of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville (1962-1992) and Baptist Theological Seminary in Richmond (1994-2000). During the 1960s, Glenn’s friendship with Trappist monk and spiritual writer Thomas Merton led him to become involved in the ecumenical movement of spiritual renewal—connecting the revivalist spirituality of many Baptists to ancient and medieval spiritual practices. He maintains a deep commitment to Christian nonviolence and the work of the Baptist Peace Fellowship of North America, serving as the original editor of The Baptist Peacemaker.
Glenn is the author of more than 30 books, including his most recent publications, A Miracle of Grace (Mercer University Press) and Baptist Spirituality: A Call for Renewed Attentiveness to God (Nurturing Faith, Inc.) He is married to Martha Burks. They have two adult children, Christopher and Elizabeth.
Defining Moments: Retaliate or Show Love? - February 19, 2017
February 19, 2016 Text: Matthew 5:38-48
Defining Moments: Fractured or Whole? - February 12, 2017
February 12, 2016 Text: Matthew 5:21-37
Defining Moments: Ready or Not? - February 5, 2017
Defining Moments: Ready or Not? - February 5, 2017
Rev Charlie Fuller