Episodes

Sunday Aug 12, 2018
Part 6: Dining Room Table Christianity
Sunday Aug 12, 2018
Sunday Aug 12, 2018
From the series, "Eating & Drinking" as part of Practicing the Way. We near the end of our practice of eating and drinking with the third dimension: eating and drinking with God. The Lord’s supper was originally exactly what it sounds like, a supper. A meal around a table with Jesus and his community. This core practice changed the Roman Empire. Could it change our world yet again?

Saturday Aug 04, 2018
The Secret of the Easy Yoke
Saturday Aug 04, 2018
Saturday Aug 04, 2018
From the series, "Gospel of Matthew." As apprentices of Jesus, we are just as capable of following Jesus in some aspects of our lives as we are to completely reject him in others. What does it mean to fully accept the easy yoke Jesus offered?

Sunday Jul 29, 2018
We’re All Thomas Now
Sunday Jul 29, 2018
Sunday Jul 29, 2018
From the series, "Gospel of Matthew." In a secular society, doubt is the new normal. But doubt is nothing new; we see it in John the Baptizer, a prophet that Jesus called the greatest man to ever live. And in this story of John’s wrestle with doubt, we see that Jesus’ invitation isn’t to certainty, but to trust.

Sunday Jul 22, 2018
Dying to Live
Sunday Jul 22, 2018
Sunday Jul 22, 2018
From the series, "Gospel of Matthew." Jesus warns and encourages his disciples about what will come as they live into his Kingdom mission. What would it look like to live as a disciple, free of all fear, fully alive to his power?

Sunday Jul 15, 2018
Part 5: How to Become the Happiest Person Alive
Sunday Jul 15, 2018
Sunday Jul 15, 2018
From the series, "Eating and Drinking" as part of Practicing the Way. Jesus was the happiest person alive, and he prayed that his apprentices would have “the full measure of my joy within them.” Joy is more than just an emotion; it is an overall condition of the heart. But how do we become joyful people? Through the spiritual discipline of celebration. And the best way to do that is to eat together as a family…

Sunday Jul 08, 2018
Part 4: Church Around a Table
Sunday Jul 08, 2018
Sunday Jul 08, 2018
From the series, "Eating and Drinking" as part of Practicing the Way. Long before followers of Jesus ever built cathedrals, they met in homes, around a table, eating and drinking as brothers and sisters. As family. This is a very simple idea that tragically, we’ve lost over the millennia, at great cost to the church. What if we were to recapture the shared meal as the center of gravity in our church?

Sunday Jul 01, 2018
Postures for Our Time and Place
Sunday Jul 01, 2018
Sunday Jul 01, 2018
From the series, "Gospel of Matthew." In a post-Christian world, followers of Jesus are not the majority. If we are to reach a world like ours, what posture are we to take? In our time and place, Jesus invites us to follow him and become like him. The harvest is plenty, but the workers are few.

Sunday Jun 24, 2018
Make Room for the New Thing
Sunday Jun 24, 2018
Sunday Jun 24, 2018
From the series, "Gospel of Matthew." Jesus is proclaiming a gospel where the foundation is on the glory of what God has done, not the righteous effort of man. A religious spirit has no place in his kingdom, he is doing a new thing, offering a new wine. will we value the wine over the wineskin and drink of his new covenant?

Saturday Jun 16, 2018
Following Jesus and Eating With Sinners
Saturday Jun 16, 2018
Saturday Jun 16, 2018
From the series, "Gospel of Matthew." In this teaching we learn Matthew's origin story and meet the Pharisees at a lively dinner party.

Sunday Jun 10, 2018
Part 3: Food: Justice and Injustice
Sunday Jun 10, 2018
Sunday Jun 10, 2018
From the series, "Eating and Drinking" as part of Practicing the Way. One dimension of the ancient art of hospitality is using food to do justice. Though Jesus’s ambition was to use the dinner table as a tool to do good, he was well aware that it was also being used to do injustice. The same is true today: Everything you eat has a story. How can we, as disciples of Jesus, break our food’s relationship with injustice in order to do good, eating and drinking?

