The question, “Do you believe in miracles?” can be such a set up for a debate… but Jesus turns it into a referendum on our way of life.

Churches often talk about ‘drawing close to God’ but that’s such a hard phrase to define. What does it mean to you?

Often the very miracles that we are so desperate for lead to less dependence on God and less love for God. It seems that isn’t the way it’s supposed to be.

Today’s devotional is a personal reflection from one of the co-pastors about embracing people of other religions.

The early church leader James gives us a profound insight into moving away from some of the false binaries that many of us have believed in.

The story of Jonah invites us to rethink out defensiveness when others point out our hypocrisy.

Instead of the good-bad binary way of thinking about ourselves or others, if we start with the imago dei (the image of God) with everyone (including ourselves!) then the conversations go differently… and a lot better.

Most of us were taught that those of different spiritual paths/religions were in some ways our enemies. But what if God sees that differently? Would you be willing to see different religions in a new light?

This week we’ve thought and prayed about our disappointments in God. How does God handle it when we’re disappointed?

God will disappoint us. (Sorry to break the news to you). So what do we do when that happens?

The original picture of sin in the Bible shows how turning away from God is essentially the same thing as turning away from our truest selves.

One helpful way to look at ‘running from God’ is to think about the ways we disintegrate ourselves. There are many places where this lines up both with scripture and with our lived experience.

Do you know what are the key reasons that you run away from God? If we don’t know why we run away from God, it’s awful hard to start running TOWARDS God.

Sometimes to tell our story we need to flip through the pages of our lives and pay closer attention to the moments when God breaks in…

There’s plenty of sadness in our stories, and we need to honor it by naming it and not hiding it. And there’s also joy and abundance - and we can’t lose sight of it just because there’s sadness as well.

The section of Psalm 107 we look at today is all about taking risks - and about what happens when we’ve reached our own limits.

Sometimes we think of those passages that talk about our sin as inherently shaming. But Dottie Oleson’s devotional today takes a different perspective.

This week we look at the different reception stories in Psalm 107 in anticipation of our Fall looking at our own stories in light of the story of Jonah.

Jesus keeps calling us back to the Imago Dei - the image of God in us. He calls us to become who we already are.

Jesus adapts the Greatest Commandment to his situation. Could we do the same?