There’s a prayer in the Bible that’s meant to be prayed for our enemies.

Today we’re going to read a longer piece of scripture. It’s a radical and idealistic vision of living in community.

When we forgive, we allow God to work in our lives.

In the first century, in order to collect on debts, you could be sold into slavery by the one who owed your debt.

Today we look at a prayer from a nobody named Agur.

An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity. - MLK

This week we’re reflecting on that simple, but very difficult prayer: “Give us today our daily bread” (Matthew 6:11). One thing that really encourages me as I pray it is that Jesus knew what he was asking of us.

He is the Maker of heaven and earth...

This week we’re looking at that prayer from Matthew 6 when Jesus teaches us to pray:

Give us today our daily bread. - Mark 6:10

All week we’ve been looking at how the scriptures teach that God looks at each human without favoritism - and how this pushes up against the exceptionalism embedded in Christian Nationalism.

This is one of my (Bill) all-time least favorite passages in the Bible.

History has proven again and again when the action of othering occurs, it is an act of alienation and rejection.

Charles Clay and Dave Neumann pointed out the historical context around Christian Nationalism as a political approach to uniting the church and the state.

Let's think about love not in relation to two people's relationship but as approach to the common good - in other words, politics.

In response to the invitation last Sunday to love our neighbors in practical ways, today we’re going to try something a little bit different and downright political.

Today we’re going to spend a moment reading and rereading a prayer from the book of Psalms.

These were the opening words of Jesus’s ministry in the book of Luke. Then he said, “These words are fulfilled today in your hearing.” That basically means, “This is what I’ve come to do.”

On Sunday, a practice was shared during the service that felt very timely and quite essential.

Jesus teaches us to pray “May your kingdom come on earth as it is in heaven” (Matthew 6:10). So what does God’s kingdom look like, and what might it look like for it to come to earth?

The first line of the Lord’s Prayer/Our Father is all about being grounded.