Sermons
Shake it Off
Queries:
What part of Jesus’s experience or guidance in today’s scripture is most striking or helpful to me today?
Where do I encounter Love in this text?
Where have I experienced–or could I experience–the liberation of letting go?
Intro to Extended Open Worship (Repair)
Queries:
Where is the loving work of repair most needed right now?
How am I participating in the work of repairing the Earth?
Where am I called to help others repair their relationships?
How can I repair the harm I have caused another person?
What systems are not working and in need of repair?
How do we navigate what feels beyond repair?
When could repair be the wrong goal?
Where are we stuck and what will help us move forward?
Instead of buying something new, what can I have repaired?
An Ally in the Storm
Queries:
Who is perishing? What are they telling us they need?
How am I feeling guided by Jesus’s example in this scene?
How do I know when someone truly cares about me?
What does it mean to be an ally for a marginalized group?
A Life-Generating Ecosystem
He also said, “The kingdom of God is as if someone would scatter seed on the ground and would sleep and rise night and day, and the seed would sprout and grow, he does not know how. The earth produces of itself first the stalk, then the head, then the full grain in the head. But when the grain is ripe, at once he goes in with his sickle because the harvest has come.” He also said, “With what can we compare the kingdom of God, or what parable will we use for it? It is like a mustard seed, which, when sown upon the ground, is the smallest of all the seeds on earth, yet when it is sown it grows up and becomes the greatest of all shrubs and puts forth large branches, so that the birds of the air can make nests in its shade.”
Do Good, Save Lives, Eat Food
Queries:
What “established things” are aiding or thwarting our ability to take care of each other?
How have I witnessed healthy dialogue at work in a community?
What meaning does “Sabbath” hold for me, today? How do I practice Sabbath?
How ready am I to respond to unexpected needs? What helps me be ready?
Who needs my help this week?
God Loves the World (No, Really)
Queries:
What do I make of Jesus’ hopeful vision of the world and people?
What specifically can we do, if anything, to experience being “born from above”?
Can I relate to Nicodemus? In what way?
What “baggage” does John 3:16 hold for me? What positive meaning does it hold?
Why does it matter to me that God doesn’t “condemn” but “so loves” the world?
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