Messages

A message from the series "The Way, Way Back." Why do strangers make us so uncomfortable? Abraham's strange encounter with God in Genesis 18 offers a picture of hospitality that's radical and [...]

A message from the series "The Way, Way Back." Change is always scary. No matter how dysfunctional our 'normal' is, it still feels like home to us. But God loves us too much to leave us in our [...]

A message from the series "Monday Messiah." What does it mean to be a good father? And what do we do if we have bad fathers? In John's Gospel, Jesus teaches us what fatherhood looks like - and [...]

A message from the series "Monday Messiah." Too often, we pit Jesus against God, as though they're playing good cop/bad cop with us. We end up afraid to reach out to God, afraid to pray. But John [...]

A message from the series "Monday Messiah." Many of us are afraid to share the good news about Jesus because we don't think our stories are interesting or remarkable. But John's introduction to [...]

A message from the series "Monday Messiah." We live in a world that teaches us to hide our true selves. Maybe we’re afraid of being seen. Or maybe we’re ashamed of our pasts. Or we got hurt the [...]

A message from the series "Monday Messiah." No one wants to admit it, but we're all really bad at being loved. Our inability to receive love poisons all our relationships. How can we learn to [...]

A message from the series "Monday Messiah." We live in a mechanized world. The buzz words of the day are 'productivity' and 'efficiency'. But we're not machines - we're organic, flesh and blood. [...]

A message from the series "Monday Messiah." Karl Marx famously claimed that religion was the ‘opiate of the masses’. He meant what we know – religion can be a powerful means of controlling [...]

A message from the series "Monday Messiah." Why do you follow Jesus? Many of us follow because we want Jesus to change our circumstances, to work a miracle in our jobs, families or bodies. But [...]