Sermons
Bread for the Journey
Queries:
What important work am I doing? What is sustaining me in this work?
How can I provide sustenance to others, in the work they are doing?
What “bread” do I need for my journey? What even is my journey?
Truth and Consequences
What can a person do to repair the harm they have caused? How can we center the victims/survivors of harm in our apologies? What is the best way to speak truth to power? To one another? Am I being honest with myself about my mistakes and growth areas? How can we steward what power we have to help, not to harm?
What is Spirituality?
Queries:
What is most striking, to me, about Paul’s words? (Eph 3:14-21)
What is true of my (or our) spirituality? How do I experience reverence, connection, power, indwelling presence, Love, understanding, limits, movement, and hope?
As I reflect on my own “experience of conscious involvement in the project of life-integration through self-transcendence toward the horizon of ultimate value (I) perceive,” what do I notice?
Repairing Trauma: Too Much, Too Soon, Too Fast (Guest Speaker: Jim Miller)
Queries:
What are issues I need to address?
What strength and tools do I have to use?
How can I support others, the planet, and myself to heal?
Justice in the Land
Queries:
How does “love of neighbor” inform how I approach this year’s election?
What might Jeremiah–or Jesus–say to USAmericans in this election year?
How am I experiencing grief, anger, or hope in response to our nation and world?
Where do I long to see reparative justice?
Shake it Off
Queries:
What part of Jesus’s experience or guidance in today’s scripture is most striking or helpful to me today?
Where do I encounter Love in this text?
Where have I experienced–or could I experience–the liberation of letting go?
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