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Advent 2023 | Peace
This second week of Advent, we consider peace. Because baby Jesus came as the promised King of peace, we can embrace peace and leave our conflicts to His justice.
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Advent 2023 | Hope
We celebrate Hope, the first week of Advent. The Kingdom of God broke into our world with Jesus' first advent. Now awaiting his second advent, we are confident He will do what He says He will do. This Biblical hope...
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Abide | The Parable of the Vineyard Workers
We wrap up our Abide series with a parable about collectively abiding in Jesus together. The workers in the vineyard remind us that hierarchy and favoritism come from drawing life from competition, not from Jesus. The...
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Abide | The Parable of the Wise & Foolish Builders
This week's installment in our Abide series explores the Parable of the Wise and Foolish Builders. It's important to consider this parable in the context in which Jesus told it. Since it comes right after the Sermon...
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Abide | The Parable of What We Can Learn from Rascalry
This week, we explore the Parable of What We Can Learn from Rascalry (or, as it is more commonly known, the Parable of the Shrewd Manager). A cast of rascals comes together to remind us that we can either own or...
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Abide | The Parable of Faulty Identity
This is the first of two weeks we are focusing on the feastiness highlighted in the Gospel of Luke. This week, we explore the Parable of Faulty Identity (otherwise known as the Parable of the Invited Guests) and the...
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Abide | The Parable of My Neighbor
We explore the Parable of My Neighbor (otherwise known as the Parable of the Good Samaritan). Jesus asks the real questions that drill down to our relationship with Him. How are we self-justifying, which creates a...
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Abide | Knocking at the Door
We explore the parable of the neighbor knocking at our door. Jesus knocks on the door as long as it takes for us to answer. Do we want to jump out of bed and answer the door immediately or stay in bed because it's...
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Abide | Living In Abundance to the End
As we learn to receive life from the vine more fully and completely, we are invited to reflect on what we have been given that we might use for the sake of others, and how fear might be causing us to protect ourselves...
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Abide | Hospitality & Forgiveness
We continue our Abide series by exploring hospitality and forgiveness in Jesus' parables. Forgiveness is the first movement of hospitality in the Kingdom. If we can't forgive, we cut ourselves off from Jesus' teaching...
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Abide | The Almost Allegorical Parable of the Extravagant Father
We continue our Abide series with the Parable of the Prodigal Son or, as we are focusing on what parables say about the nature of God, the Parable of the Extravagant Father.It is so easy to see ourselves in multiple...
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Abide | The Parables of the Shepherd's Joy & the Joy of the Woman
We continue our Abide series with two parables as we see the activity of Christ contrasting with the activity of religious people. Whereas religion is the mechanism of excluding those who won't behave in order to...
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