As we reflect on healing this week, our main goal will not be to get results. Our main goal will be to love well.

Today we reflect on the song Raise Up by Semler

In a world where it’s so hard to see God at work, at least we have a savior who knew what the reality of this messy world was like.

Instead of God showing up either in the fireworks of the miraculous or in the ordinariness of our day to day lives… Jesus decides to do BOTH.

Sometimes we need to break away from the over-simplified understandings of God that have been delivered to us, and we need to re-name God. We stand in a great tradition as we do so.

We often use binaries to simplify decisions. But what happens when God doesn’t like an either-or proposition?

Giving thanks implies that we needed what we’re thankful for. It’s a posture of humility.

One of our elders recently talked about her messy relationship with Jesus and how hopeful it is - because we all need “Messy Jesus.”

There’s power in story, but when we boil it down and take out all the personal elements, we’re left with law. And that’s a real problem.

Today is a day of gratitude… built around giving thanks for a teenage boy who came out at age 15 and changed the trajectory of City Church forever.

We all have stories to tell.

It’s time to pray for the resurrection of the church.

A simple practice of gratitude - not for the big stuff, but the small stuff - seems integral in Jesus’s miracles.

To do justice is one of the key ways we’re invited into a full and flourishing life.

The way of wisdom surfaces as very practical today, even to the point of saying the name Keenan Anderson and asking the question of Why?

Jesus refers to Wisdom as a person… and uses that to describe himself. How does that affect how we pray?

A simple poem today - for simple people trying to find God in the simple gifts of each day.

In both Old and New Testaments, God shows true delight in us. Sometimes it can be hard to believe it.

The blessing that we say most weeks at the end of church is a throw back to the passage we’re thinking about today: all about delight and destiny.