Today will be fun, because we get to talk about circumcision! Really though, what will be revealing is that as we understand what circumcision represented for Israel, realize who Paul is talking to and what…
As we start into Ephesians it’s going to be important to try and keep the things we talk about week to week at the back of our heads. We do not want to risk treating…
Being the season of Advent, a season of purposeful waiting, it tends to get a bit serious. Everything is more solemn right now, the songs we sing with Dan leading are more depressing about longing…
We have been in a series right now entitled Results May Vary. The idea being that even as we move along in our lives and understand what our role is that the results will always…
We finally got our write-up for our series finished and we left it up there when you were walking in just so you could get a grasp on what we are trying to do with…
One of the the things I’ve been spending a lot of time thinking about and reading about lately is our worship service. I tend to do this and then start reading a lot of books,…
We are entering in at Chapter 25 in Acts this morning. So there is a lot happening now in Acts. Paul is bound up in prison for at least two years. He is being used…
Acts was written by Luke as a second part to the Gospel of Luke. Acts is chronicling the spread of the church from the Ascension of Jesus to following Paul around on his different missionary…
We are making our way through Acts at a fairly good pace and we are seeing how the gospel is starting to make its way to the ends of the earth. We are starting to…
So this morning we are finishing up Acts 11. Because it’s fairly short and there isn’t too much exegetical work that I am going to do, we are going to take some time and try…
So after our two week break for Easter, we are coming back into the book of Acts. We’ve spent a lot of time more in liturgical settings with doing readings out loud, prayers out loud…
We all met 15 minutes before sunrise at the local beach. We had a big campfire roaring as people showed up. After the liturgy we went back to our space and had a pancake breakfast….
Here is our Good Friday Liturgy from 2012. Each section was read by a different member of our community including children from gr. 5 and up. The Resurrection Sunday liturgy can be found here. [Introduction] Before we…
So we are still in the book of Acts, we’ve been here since October and we are only still in chapter eight. As we go through Acts we are starting to see the story unfold…
As we start to unfold this story of the first Christians we are picking up on some important themes, and not only that, we are starting to see that everything is connected. Everything from Genesis…
As we work our way through Acts we are starting to get a hold on what was going on with the very first Christians. This is a well articulated story of how this news of…
Allright so Joe spoke last week about how John and Peter were taken in and questioned by the high priest and Sadducees. Basically what happened is you have John and Peter and they are running…
Remember where we came from last week. Peter has just finished the speech of all speeches connecting the dots of how the hope of Israel is realized in the death and Resurrection of Jesus. You…
Movements have happened all over the world. They all have different characteristics and accomplish different tasks. Movements never mean that everything changes from that moment on definitely. However, a movement, or the day a movement…
This summer our series is called Pirate Radio and it’s all about the Minor Prophets. Prophets were these spokesmen that God used to pass messages to people. Sometimes they acted out prophetic parables (such as…