What would happen if everyone was a singer? And what would happen if everyone in the church was a pastor?

Romans 13:8-14

Salvation is not a purely personal undertaking; salvation takes relationship. It takes the entire community marching arm-in-arm through the night and toward the daybreak.

Exodus 3:1-15

Moses’ identity—who he is, and where he has been—is exactly what undergirds this remarkable call. Moses is exactly who he needs to be for this calling God is giving him.

Exodus 1:8-2:10

Shiphrah and Puah are unwilling to favor their national pride over their obedience to God. And it is this obedience to God—and disobedience to their nation’s autocrat—that drives them to do what is unimaginably difficult.

Matthew 13:31-33, 44-52

In Jesus’ parable, the kingdom isn't being brought about by “real” work, like farming, or craftsmanship, or buying and selling. The kingdom of heaven is brought about by domestic work. The work of a housewife. “Woman’s work,” which becomes the locus of divine activity.

Matthew 13:24-30, 36-43

In a world that’s all mixed up, where the weeds and good seeds are all commingled, it becomes impossible to live as a faithful disciple of Jesus and not ask hard questions about the world.

Matthew 10:24-39

Here, in Jesus’ new household, the animating principle is self-sacrificial love — this fidelity to the pattern of Jesus Christ, even when it brings us into conflict with our own biological families and the status quo.

Matthew 9:35-10:8

What happens on Sunday morning isn’t the culmination of the Church’s calling. Instead, its heart beats through service, and action, and transformation — its heartbeat is the work of healing, restoring, resurrecting.

PENTECOST | 1 Corinthians 12:4-13 and Acts 2:1-21

As the Holy Spirit descends, things don’t get tidy; they get really, really messy. In fact, the disciples’ ways of life fall apart. The status quo—the way things have been, the 'good old days'—it splinters into pieces.

John 14:15-21

In the reaffirmation of the baptismal covenant, we commit to imaginations that are captive to love and not fear. We commit to the hard work or reorienting our imaginations around resurrections and not death, hope and not despair.

John 20:19-31

In revealing the broken bones and bloody toes we experience, we are drawn into a great circle of healing and being healed. There is this constant dialogue—constant dance—of us caring for one another and being cared for.

EASTER SUNDAY | Matthew 28:1-10

When the truth is proclaimed loudly and boldly, like we see at this empty tomb, it causes an earthquake. But it also brings Christ into closer proximity to our fear, and doubt, and pain, and brings us into closer proximity to his love, and grace, and freedom.

MAUNDY THURSDAY | John 13:1-17, 31b-35

Tonight, we will hear a long, painful story about the Passion of Jesus. But we aren’t hear to simply know that Jesus loves us. We’re here to go, and act, and change the world for his sake.

Matthew 25:1-13

The hope and joy of the kingdom of God is like brisket: it’s never fast enough, never on our timetable, and always a little delayed. The Church and ministry are like that, too. None of it is like an Easy Bake Oven or an instapot; it takes time.

Matthew 5:1-13

There is no blessing for those who place order above wholeness, or the law above what is truly right. But there is a blessedness beyond reason to those who place wholeness and righteousness above human whims.

John 1:1-14

We will only be able to worship this tiny, fragile baby Jesus, when we dwell in his presence with those who are vulnerable.

Luke 2:1-20

Christ is brave enough, strong enough, powerful enough to stand the smell of this world, the ugly reality we know, the darkness all around us, and invite it into his eternal light.

Luke 1:26-38

Joy makes us live in new ways, with new habits, and new families, and new responsibilities, because we are called to herald the complicated, yet saving birth of Jesus Christ. We are called to herald new life—each and every time—by choosing joy.

Luke 1:5-25

The pattern of joy is not to burst out with as many words as we can, or to start telling the world about how good things are, or to launch into a flurry of do-goodery. The pattern of joy—this choice of joy—begins with quiet contemplation.

Romans 13:8-14; 14:1-4, 7-10

We join the Church today in remembering our mortality and that we die in the same manner that we were born: held in love, shepherded by the Lord of all, and part of a communion of saints that is far bigger and more beautiful than we can ever grasp.