Remember all those old bible stories that we heard as children? Zacchaeus, The Prodigal Son, The Fiery Furnace, and others? In our mind's eye, they may seem more like cartoon characters rather than real people. In this series we'll be looking at some of these "cartoonish" stories, but taking away all the "cartoon." These stories have a lot to say to us about hope, struggle, and the amazing things that God does in the lives of real people.
Read MoreRemember all those old bible stories that we heard as children? Zacchaeus, The Prodigal Son, The Fiery Furnace, and others? In our mind's eye, they may seem more like cartoon characters rather than real people. In this series we'll be looking at some of these "cartoonish" stories, but taking away all the "cartoon." These stories have a lot to say to us about hope, struggle, and the amazing things that God does in the lives of real people.
Read MoreWe take the scriptures too seriously to take them at face value.
A new version of a popular series from 2015.
Read MoreWe take the scriptures too seriously to take them at face value.
A new version of a popular series from 2015.
Read More“Christians are usually sincere and well-intentioned people until you get to any real issues of ego, control power, money, pleasure, and security. Then they tend to be pretty much like everybody else. We often given a bogus version of the Gospel, some fast-food religion, without any deep transformation of the self; and the result has been the spiritual disaster of "Christian" countries that tend to be as consumer-oriented, proud, warlike, racist, class conscious, and addictive as everybody else-and often more so, I'm afraid.”
-Richard Rohr
Read MoreRemember all those old bible stories that we heard as children? Jonah, Samson, David & Goliath, and others? In our mind's eye, they may seem more like cartoon characters rather than real people. In this series we'll be looking at some of these "cartoonish" stories, but taking away all the "cartoon." These stories have a lot to say to us about hope, struggle, and the amazing things that God does in the lives of real people.
Read MoreWhen we were children, we played a game called “telephone” where we would sit in a circle with friends, whisper a message to the person on our right, who would then whisper the message they heard to the person on their right, and so on and so forth. By the time the message worked its way around the circle it was nowhere near the message it was at the beginning.This is also how the message of scripture gets distorted as it passes through the channels of tradition and history. In this series, we will reexamine some of the commonly misinterpreted messages of scripture, which allows us to wrestle with the author’s intended meaning.
Read MoreJesus understood that stories had the power to speak to people on any level. He also knew that the meaning of a story relied as much on the hearer as on the storyteller. In any storyline, the hearer of the story hears what they need to hear. This is why he taught in parables, so that all could partake of truth, whether they knew they were partaking of it or not. In this series, we’re taking a look at a few of the parables taught by Jesus, not to define what they mean, but to hear what they are saying to each of us right where we are.
Read MoreThe Psalms have always been the prayer book of God’s people. In them we find every depth of human emotion from joy and sorrow to doubt and praise and beyond. Just like an actor in a musical sings because simple words are no longer enough, or a Shakespearean character breaks into verse when his heart is too full for prose, the writers of the psalms pour forth their emotions in dialogue with God, letting their words be an overflow of their hearts and teaching us that we, too, can feel fully human in our prayers to God...for whoever can speak an honest word, can tell a poem. This series teaches us to pray with the psalms as we discover what it means to feel fully human with God.
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