Today we ask the question, why are those who mourn blessed…

This is perhaps the least quoted and least honored of all of the promises of Jesus: You will grieve. - John 16:20

et in touch with your own inner ache for justice, for peace, and for healing

Today we make the distinction between guilt and shame

Jesus tells a parable about people who were treated shamefully…

There are lots of different perspectives on what form evil takes in our day and age.

 For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him. - John 3:17

On Sunday Stephen Liu closed the service with this song…

Each night at bedtime I (Bill) would hear Katy give a blessing to each of the kids.

We’ve been thinking about attachment theory this week and what a huge difference it makes to have the deep experience of being grounded in God’s love, feeling a secure attachment to God as our loving parent.

Today we look at what may well have been the single biggest turning point in Jesus’s ministry.

Yesterday our friend Justin McArdle preached about attachment theory - the approach to therapy that helps us sort through how to form stable, healthy, secure attachments to God and others

Sit with these fresh beatitudes for a moment and see if you can let the blessings in.

Paul tries to reorient the Galatians to who Christ is and what the ultimate purpose of all religious and moral actions.

When Paul thinks of his friends in different churches, he has a clear vision of who they can become. I

While seeming counterintuitive at first, motivational interviewing can help people discern their own way forward by helping them look at the assumptions behind their actions.

One of the things Tiger pointed out in the message yesterday is that a lot of people use God and religion in ways that are unhelpful and unhealthy.

We listen in today to one of the most famous poems about hope.

May integrity and uprightness protect me!

HOPE: All will be well in the end. If all is not well, it is not the end.