"Jesus knew that every human being has the capacity to decide where they're going to put their trust." Where do you put your trust? // Luke 23:46 Then Jesus, crying with a loud voice, said, ‘Father, into your hands I commit my spirit.’ Having said this, he breathed his last. // This episode was written and recorded by Rev. Dr. James Forbes. It was produced by Rev. Jim Keat. Background tracks include Button Mushrooms by Podington Bear and Cold Feet by Will Bangs. Visit www.trcnyc.org/BeStillAndGo...
Apr 10, 2020•23 min
"He will bring the good news to this atrophied, sun-starved people who had experienced such loss." What does “good news” look like in our world right now? // John 13:1 Now before the festival of the Passover, Jesus knew that his hour had come to depart from this world and go to the Father. Having loved his own who were in the world, he loved them to the end. // This episode was written and recorded by Amanda Meisenheimer. It was produced by Rev. Jim Keat. Background tracks are by Podington Bear ...
Apr 09, 2020•7 min
"Christ is risen. Alleluia. Cowabunga." What word or phrase would you use to describe the seasons of Lent and Easter? // This episode was written, recorded, and produced by Rev. Jim Keat. Background tracks include Button Mushrooms by Podington Bear and In the Dark Your’re More Colorful and Live for the Dead by Corrina Repp. Visit www.trcnyc.org/BeStillAndGo to listen to more episodes from all five seasons of Be Still and Go. Visit www.trcnyc.org/Donate to support this podcast and other digital r...
Apr 08, 2020•8 min
"We must be cracked open to the pain of the world in order to begin to allow God’s kingdom to enter in, to redeem us, to redeem the world. It begins with that undoing." How have you seen God’s reign enter in the midst of the pain of the world? // This episode was written and recorded by Kate Bowler. It was produced by Rev. Jim Keat. Background tracks include Button Mushrooms and Delican’t by Podington Bear. Visit www.trcnyc.org/BeStillAndGo to listen to more episodes from all five seasons of Be ...
Apr 07, 2020•5 min
Jesus sees my trauma Holds my broken pieces And draws me to his kindness Hallelujah What does it mean to you for God to be present with your pain and trauma? // This episode was written and recorded by Common Hymnal. Background tracks used during the intro and outro feature Button Mushrooms by Podington Bear. Visit www.trcnyc.org/BeStillAndGo to listen to more episodes from all five seasons of Be Still and Go. Visit www.trcnyc.org/Donate to support this podcast and other digital resources from T...
Apr 06, 2020•7 min
“When you are praying to Jesus you are praying to someone who understands you because he is human and has experienced all things." What difference does it make to know that Jesus understands your suffering? // Matthew 21:1-11 When they had come near Jerusalem and had reached Bethphage, at the Mount of Olives, Jesus sent two disciples, saying to them, “Go into the village ahead of you, and immediately you will find a donkey tied, and a colt with her; untie them and bring them to me. If anyone say...
Apr 05, 2020•5 min
We must meditate through the noise, call the darkness our friend, and rest in the silence. How are you handling the noise in your mind and the silence in our world? // Hello darkness, my old friend I've come to talk with you again Because a vision softly creeping Left its seeds while I was sleeping And the vision that was planted in my brain Still remains Within the sound of silence // The reflection at the beginning of this episode was written and recorded by Amanda Meisenheimer. The cover of T...
Apr 04, 2020•7 min
"This is a brave new world that none of us have ever experienced. This is the end of the world as we know it." What are you doing to stay safe and sane during this ongoing health crisis? // Team by team, reporters baffled, trumped, tethered, cropped Look at that low plane, fine, then Uh oh, overflow, population, common group But it'll do, save yourself, serve yourself World serves its own needs, listen to your heart bleed Tell me with the Rapture and the reverent in the right, right You vitrioli...
Apr 03, 2020•11 min
“I can be changed by what happens to me but I refuse to be reduced by it.” -Maya Angelou Where do you see the Spirit of God in your life and in our world during these times? // Romans 8:6-11 To set the mind on the flesh is death, but to set the mind on the Spirit is life and peace. For this reason the mind that is set on the flesh is hostile to God; it does not submit to God’s law—indeed it cannot, and those who are in the flesh cannot please God. But you are not in the flesh; you are in the Spi...
Apr 02, 2020•9 min
"God’s Spirit has been breathed into us, connecting us one to another and raising us up to new life where we can walk together through fear and death and destruction.” "We are created with connectedness and spirit and hope breathed into us." How are you experiencing connectedness and spirit and hope right now? // Ezekiel 37:1-14 The hand of the Lord came upon me, and he brought me out by the spirit of the Lord and set me down in the middle of a valley; it was full of bones. He led me all around ...
Apr 01, 2020•7 min
"Faithful waiting means paying attention, listening with compassion, acting with intention, and trusting that it doesn’t all rely on you or me." What can you learn from polar bears? // Psalm 130 Out of the depths I cry to you, O Lord. Lord, hear my voice! Let your ears be attentive to the voice of my supplications! If you, O Lord, should mark iniquities, Lord, who could stand? But there is forgiveness with you, so that you may be revered. I wait for the Lord, my soul waits, and in his word I hop...
Mar 31, 2020•8 min
“When we mourn someone else we affirm their personhood, we proclaim that their pain deserves our care, concern, and solidarity." What is moving you to tears right now? // John 11:1-35 Now a certain man was ill, Lazarus of Bethany, the village of Mary and her sister Martha. Mary was the one who anointed the Lord with perfume and wiped his feet with her hair; her brother Lazarus was ill. So the sisters sent a message to Jesus, “Lord, he whom you love is ill.” When Jesus arrived, he found that Laza...
Mar 30, 2020•7 min
“To know where you’re going you have to know where you’ve been.” -Lawrence Tureaud As you learn from the past, where do you see God leading you into the future? // This conversation features Carol Fouke-Mpoyo. Carol has been a part of The Riverside Church since the 1978. This episode was produced by Rev. Jim Keat. Background tracks include Button Mushrooms and Woods by Corrina Repp. Visit www.trcnyc.org/BeStillAndGo to listen to more episodes from all five seasons of Be Still and Go. Visit www.t...
Mar 29, 2020•30 min
"Find God in this moment, in this breath." What can you do to create a little more stillness in your life today? // And the people bowed and prayed To the neon god they made And the sign flashed out its warning In the words that it was forming And the sign said, "The words of the prophets are written on the subway walls And tenement halls" And whispered in the sounds of silence // The reflection in this episode was written, recorded, and produced by Rev. Jim Keat. The cover of The Sound of Silen...
Mar 28, 2020•9 min
“If there is a God then the human word is not the last word. God is.” What word do you think God wants to say to our world today? // Psalm 31:9-16 Be gracious to me, O Lord, for I am in distress; my eye wastes away from grief, my soul and body also. For my life is spent with sorrow, and my years with sighing; my strength fails because of my misery, and my bones waste away. I am the scorn of all my adversaries, a horror to my neighbors, an object of dread to my acquaintances; those who see me in ...
Mar 27, 2020•6 min
"God leads me to still waters and green pastures. God returns me to my breath." Where is God leading you right now? // Psalm 23 The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want. She makes me lie down in green pastures; she leads me beside still waters; she restores my soul. She leads me in right paths for her name’s sake. Even though I walk through the darkest valley, I fear no evil; for you are with me; your rod and your staff— they comfort me. You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemi...
Mar 26, 2020•22 min
“I used to cling to bits of darkness in order to survive but I don’t have to live like that anymore. I am a child of the light and I can begin to live like one." What are the parts of our world need the light of God to shine on them? What about the parts of your life? // Ephesians 5:8-14 For once you were darkness, but now in the Lord you are light. Live as children of light— for the fruit of the light is found in all that is good and right and true. Try to find out what is pleasing to the Lord....
Mar 25, 2020•11 min
“This season of Lent, remind yourself that God is right there waiting, ready to anoint you and to bless you." What is your spiritual origin story? // 1 Samual 16:1-13 The Lord said to Samuel, “How long will you grieve over Saul? I have rejected him from being king over Israel. Fill your horn with oil and set out; I will send you to Jesse the Bethlehemite, for I have provided for myself a king among his sons.” Samuel said, “How can I go? If Saul hears of it, he will kill me.” And the Lord said, “...
Mar 24, 2020•7 min
“'Doubts and loves dig up the world like a mole, a plow,’ allowing the whispers of God’s spirit to bring forth new life." Where do you see whispers of God’s Spirit bringing forth new life around you? // The Place Where We Are Right by Yehuda Amichai From the place where we are right Flowers will never grow In the spring. The place where we are right Is hard and trampled Like a yard. But doubts and loves Dig up the world Like a mole, a plow. And a whisper will be heard in the place Where the ruin...
Mar 23, 2020•9 min
“How can we call ourselves followers of Jesus and not be active in the struggle?" What does it mean for you to call yourself a follower of Jesus? // This episode features a conversation with Hylda Clarke. It was produced by Rev. Jim Keat. Background tracks include Button Mushrooms and Sandcastle by Podington Bear. Visit www.trcnyc.org/BeStillAndGo to listen to more episodes from all five seasons of Be Still and Go. Visit www.trcnyc.org/Donate to support this podcast and other digital resources f...
Mar 22, 2020•9 min
“What our hearts yearn for, what our souls ache for is a God who walks with through the broken shards of our messy lives.” How do you know that God is with you, especially in times like this? // Exodus 17:1-7 From the wilderness of Sin the whole congregation of the Israelites journeyed by stages, as the Lord commanded. They camped at Rephidim, but there was no water for the people to drink. The people quarreled with Moses, and said, “Give us water to drink.” Moses said to them, “Why do you quarr...
Mar 21, 2020•9 min
"Hello darkness, my old friend, I’ve come to talk with you again." How would you describe your relationship with silence and solitude? // Hello darkness, my old friend I've come to talk with you again Because a vision softly creeping Left its seeds while I was sleeping And the vision that was planted in my brain Still remains Within the sound of silence In restless dreams I walked alone Narrow streets of cobblestone 'Neath the halo of a street lamp I turned my collar to the cold and damp When my...
Mar 20, 2020•8 min
“How long, O Lord?” -Psalm 13 How can you find and share joy in the midst of this long, stressful season? // Psalm 13:1 How long, O Lord? Psalm 95:1 O come, let us sing to the Lord; let us make a joyful noise. // This episode was written, recorded, and produced by Rev. Jim Keat. Background tracks include Button Mushrooms by Podington Bear and 40 by U2, and The Great Burn by Dave Depper. Visit www.trcnyc.org/BeStillAndGo to listen to more episodes from all five seasons of Be Still and Go. Visit w...
Mar 19, 2020•7 min
“If only I had the faith of the Samaritan woman maybe I would" What difference does faith make in your life? // John 4:5-42 So he came to a Samaritan city called Sychar, near the plot of ground that Jacob had given to his son Joseph. Jacob’s well was there, and Jesus, tired out by his journey, was sitting by the well. It was about noon. A Samaritan woman came to draw water, and Jesus said to her, “Give me a drink.” (His disciples had gone to the city to buy food.) The Samaritan woman said to him...
Mar 18, 2020•5 min
“These are hard times and your feelings of frustration, fear, sadness, disappointment, and confusion are valid. We need to feel our feelings." What are you feeling right now? // Romans 5:2-5 We boast in our hope of sharing the glory of God. And not only that, but we also boast in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance, and endurance produces character, and character produces hope, and hope does not disappoint us, because God’s love has been poured into our hearts through the H...
Mar 17, 2020•9 min
"Receiving God’s provision of food in due season redefines each fruit and vegetable from commodity to sacrament." How does eating seasonally impact your spirituality? // Psalm 145:15 The eyes of all look to you, and you give them their food in due season. // This episode was written and recorded by Farley Lord. It was produced by Rev. Jim Keat. Background tracks include Button Mushrooms by Podington Bear and Live for the Dead by Corinna Repp. Visit www.trcnyc.org/BeStillAndGo to listen to more e...
Mar 16, 2020•5 min
“It’s not enough for me to sit on the sidelines and throw rocks but I need to be part of helping to do something, whatever I can." What is God calling you to be a part of? // This conversation features Dr. Ronald Lonesome. Dr. Lonesome has been a part of The Riverside Church since the 1981. This episode was produced by Rev. Jim Keat. Background tracks include Button Mushrooms and Backwater by Podington Bear. Visit www.trcnyc.org/BeStillAndGo to listen to more episodes from all five seasons of Be...
Mar 15, 2020•14 min
"When we actually get that peace and quiet it can be louder than the world we thought we left behind." What does peace and quiet sound like to you? // Hello darkness, my old friend I've come to talk with you again Because a vision softly creeping Left its seeds while I was sleeping And the vision that was planted in my brain Still remains Within the sound of silence In restless dreams I walked alone Narrow streets of cobblestone 'Neath the halo of a street lamp I turned my collar to the cold and...
Mar 14, 2020•7 min
We need to hover over the chaos, the formless and void in our world and our lives, and give birth to miracles. What miracle are you hoping to give birth to today? // Romans 4:17 God…calls into existence the things that do not exist. // This episode was written, recorded, and produced by Rev. Jim Keat. Background tracks include Button Mushrooms, Lullaby, and Calla Lilly by Podington Bear. Visit www.trcnyc.org/BeStillAndGo to listen to more episodes from all five seasons of Be Still and Go. Visit ...
Mar 13, 2020•7 min
"Look up to God, our spiritual compass, rather than out to the chaos of our world." Where do you look for peace in the midst of chaos? // Psalm 121 I lift up my eyes to the hills— from where will my help come? My help comes from the Lord, who made heaven and earth. He will not let your foot be moved; he who keeps you will not slumber. He who keeps Israel will neither slumber nor sleep. The Lord is your keeper; the Lord is your shade at your right hand. The sun shall not strike you by day, nor th...
Mar 12, 2020•10 min
