Sometimes we’re so focused ‘upward’ on God that we miss how God is calling us to be grounded in the work of doing justice here on the ground.

Plunging into the depths with God can be both an experience of sadness and great comfort.

Seeking is a huge theme in the scriptures. We’re going on a journey together this Lent to seek - to ask - to be curious - and to grow.

Jesus often asks, “What do you want?” Rarely do we know ourselves (or have the courage) to answer honestly.

Listen to Jon and Valerie Guerra’s gorgeous song as an invitation to meditate on the words of Jesus.

Paul writes that freedom is not always free - we have to fight for it sometimes.

So often we externalize the issue of poverty. Today, challenged by the book of James, we try to get in touch with it very personally.

American Christians often quote “Blessed are the poor in spirit” and ignore Jesus’s other words: “Blessed are the poor.”

This is the powerful, heart-breaking prayer that was sung over us at the end of the service on Sunday.

The gospel of John talks about believing, and that’s had a huge impact on the church in America. The other three gospels talk a lot more about following… which we might want to pay attention to.

There are incidents in the gospels where Jesus did not completely heal someone on the first try. He had to try again. And so do we.

We talk about God being love, but what does that mean?

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?