Acceptance or Tolerance
Kevin Dixon - The struggle to accept one another can often be confused with tolerating each other.

Kevin Dixon - The struggle to accept one another can often be confused with tolerating each other.
Mike Erre - This week we examine texts in Acts so examine the complex relationship the early church had with Jewish and Roman authorities.
Mike Erre - This week we look at Jesus’ teachings about creative resistance to evil and loving our enemies.
Mike Erre - This week we look at several texts where Jesus clarifies the differences between the kingdom of God and the kingdoms of the world.
Mike Erre - We examine Jesus’ teaching about the kingdom of God and its implications for the culture wars of his day.
Suzie Lind - Historically the Holy Spirit has awakened the creative and innovative souls of people to distrust the status quo and create communities marked by unity. Today we ask the question, “How might he be doing that today and with us?”
Kevin Dixon -
Kevin Dixon - How to approach conflict with reconciliation as the goal.
Suzie Lind - Spiritual formation is commonly limited to the practices that grow our individual relationships with God. Today we consider the end of formation is to actually cultivate a more faithful community.
Kevin Dixon - Our love for each other is directly connected to how we experience the Love of God. How we practice loving our neighbor is really an expression of our faith.
Mike Erre - We look at Paul’s teaching about how the church is to be reconfigured social space, resisting the cultural divisions around us.
Mike Erre - We explore the ramifications of Jesus’ teaching about the nature of siblingship in his kingdom community.
This week we look at the communal nature of the New Testament’s vision of sin, salvation and spirituality.
Mike Erre - Bad religion so idealizes the past that it misses God’s movement in the present.
Mike Erre - Jesus explores the damaging results of hypocrisy— when there is a difference between outward appearance and inward reality.
Mike Erre - This week we look at the tendency to allow religious observance to crowd out mercy; especially as we focus on the details while missing the bigger picture
Mike Erre - We look at how the Pharisee’s efforts on evangelism actually obscured the heart of God and malformed those who followed their teaching.
Kevin Dixon - Why we practice our religion is a reflection of the overflow of our hearts.
Mike Erre - This week we look at the ways the Pharisees misuse scripture to obscure the truth and beauty of Jesus in his kingdom.
Mike Erre - We look at Jesus’ critique of the Pharisees preoccupation with social approval and recognition.
Mike Erre - We contrast the heavy and wearisome yoke of bad religion with the light and easy yoke of Jesus.
Mike Erre - We start a new series today by looking at the Jesus’ condemning statements to the Pharisees; foremost among them is his warning against hypocrisy.
Mike Erre - We try to answer the question why Jesus had to die.
Suzie Lind - Jesus enters Jerusalem one last time on the day we call Palm Sunday. While the crowds celebrate with joy, Jesus weeps with grief.
Kevin Dixon - The parable of the persistent Widow - the value of doing what we can even when it seems hopeless. While praying to a just God gives us hope.
Mike Erre - We end our Genesis series by looking more carefully at the identity of the snake and the promise that one will come who will defeat it.
Mike Erre - This week we look at God’s words to the woman and the man and see how they reflect the new normal of the human condition.
Mike Erre - In this section we examine the temptation narrative and encounter the unexpected mercy of God as He invites His image bearers out of hiding.
Mike Erre - We look at God’s promise of a “suitable helper” and see that this passage has been greatly misunderstood.
Mike Erre - We look at the priestly calling of the human in the garden and explore the nature of the two trees at its center