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Be Still and Go

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Be Still and Go is a digital devotional that invites you to reflect on a text or a theme so that you can be refilled and refueled for the work of love and justice that you are called to do. And this work is not a sprint. Take a moment and do your stretches because we’re in this for the whole marathon.

Find out more about these meditations for the movement as well as other digital discipleship resources at www.trcnyc.org.

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Is It Not Enough? (Kevin VanHook)

October 06, 2019 09:00 - 8 minutes - 9.21 MB

"We ought to live more simply so others may simply live." What kinds of shepherds do we want to be? How will we remain faithful in this strange land? // Ezekiel 34:18 Is it not enough for you to feed on the good pasture? But you must tread down with your feet the rest of your pasture? When you drink of clear water, must you foul the rest with your feet? // This episode was written and recorded by Kevin VanHook. It was produced by Rev. Jim Keat. Background tracks include Trundle by Poding...

The Greta Effect (Bruce Lamb)

October 05, 2019 09:00 - 8 minutes - 9.3 MB

“You say you love your children above all else and yet you're stealing their future in front of their very eyes.” -Greta Thunberg What tangible actions can you take to help slow the effects of climate change? // Amos 5:24 But let justice roll down like waters, and righteousness like an ever-flowing stream. // This episode was written and recorded by Bruce Lamb. It was produced by Rev. Jim Keat. Background tracks include Trundle Reed Canary Grass, Cottonwoods, and Oregon Grape by Podingto...

A Covenant with Creation (Sheena Rolle)

October 04, 2019 09:00 - 6 minutes - 7.31 MB

“How we honor and tend to the earth is a sign of how we honor and tend to our relationship with God and with each other." In your own words, why is it important to honor and tend to the earth? // Genesis 1:28-30 God blessed them, and God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth and subdue it; and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the air and over every living thing that moves upon the earth.” God said, “See, I have given you every plant yieldin...

The Least of These (Alan Bentz-Letts)

October 03, 2019 09:00 - 8 minutes - 9.51 MB

“The elephant slaughtered for it’s tusks, the oceans littered with swaths of plastic bottles, the forest being burned or cut down for palm oil plantations, the arctic ice disappearing at an alarming rate. These are 'the least of these' also because they are part of us and how we came to be. Their suffering, their loss, their exploitation is the suffering of Jesus Christ. Christ is on the cross all over this planet." Where do you see “the least of these” in the created world around you? // ...

Frozen In Time (Regina Tate)

October 02, 2019 09:00 - 12 minutes - 14.2 MB

Memorizing scripture is the easy part. Walking the walk is incredibly difficult. But the benefit that we that get out of it is that we will live and walk and talk our faith and the gift at the end will be saving our planet. What does it look like for you to live and walk and talk your faith? // Isaiah 11:6 The wolf shall live with the lamb, the leopard shall lie down with the kid, the calf and the lion and the fatling together, and a little child shall lead them. // This episode was writ...

Everything Is Connected (Duane Toops)

October 01, 2019 09:00 - 7 minutes - 8.95 MB

"Everything is engulfed by this lively mesh of existence and being, this tangled brew of life." What connections do you feel to the world around you? // This episode was written and recorded by Duane Toops. It was produced by Rev. Jim Keat. Background tracks include Trundle by Podington Bear and Houston St. and ø by Young Bay. Visit www.trcnyc.org/BeStillAndGo to listen to more episodes from all four seasons of Be Still and Go.

Energizing, Enlivening, and Exhausting (Chelsea MacMillan)

September 30, 2019 12:45 - 6 minutes - 7.72 MB

"Every march is a step forward into the unknown, trusting, surrendering, hoping against all illogical hope that a new life awaits.” What keeps you motivated to work for environmental justice in our world? // This episode was written and recorded by Chelsea MacMillan. It was produced by Rev. Jim Keat. Background tracks include Trundle by Podington Bear and Looking for that Moment when Time Stands Still and The Dead of Winter by Will Bangs. Visit www.trcnyc.org/BeStillAndGo to listen to mor...

In This Meantime (Michael Livingston)

September 29, 2019 09:00 - 4 minutes - 5.52 MB

God of many names, one being: you slung stars to infinite galaxies in a universe whose outer limits are beyond our reach. You made this earth, so finely balanced, brilliant in beauty, breath-taking in wonder. You set our feet upon the ground and gave us eyes to see the sky, beating hearts and curious minds, busy hands to feel joy and work the planet for the good of all. Our failures are not your doing. Our triumphs tell of your glory. You are our true home. Young people all over the world ma...

Air (Jim Keat)

September 28, 2019 09:00 - 6 minutes - 7.52 MB

What do we do when the very thing we need might end up killing us? // The heavens are telling the glory of God; and the firmament proclaims God's handiwork. (Psalm 19:1) The sky is falling. The air is killing us. Nearly 80% of lung illnesses are due to the air pollutants caused by automobiles and other fossil fuel burning machines. They will roar over it on that day, like the roaring of the sea. And if one look to the land— only darkness and distress; and the light grows dark with clouds....

Sacred Places (Frances Connell)

September 27, 2019 12:09 - 10 minutes - 12 MB

“There are no unsecured places but only sacred places and desecrated places.” -Wendell Berry Where have you found God in creation? // Psalm 18:2 My God is my rock, in whom I take refuge, my shield, and the horn of my salvation, my stronghold. // This episode was written and recorded by Frances Connell. It was produced by Rev. Jim Keat. Background tracks include Trundle and Sepia by Podington Bear, Rivers and Mountains by Josh Spacek, and The Tide and Seeking Clarity by Alex Fitch. Visit...

Reflecting Beyond the Obvious (Rabbi Jill Zimmerman)

September 26, 2019 11:49 - 5 minutes - 5.79 MB

"See to it that you do not spoil and destroy my world for if you do there will be no one else to repair it.” // If we do not wake up our children and grand children will have a future of a diminishing food supply and withered trees. What are you doing to care for the future of our planet? // Leviticus 26:3-4 If you follow my statutes and keep my commandments and observe them faithfully, I will give you your rains in their season, and the land shall yield its produce, and the trees of the...

Damn (Alisha Gordon)

September 25, 2019 09:00 - 9 minutes - 10.5 MB

Hound dogs on my trail School children sitting in jail Black cat cross my path I think every day’s gonna be my last -Nina Simone What does it mean to “give a damn” about our world today? // Genesis 8:13–14 In the six hundred first year, in the first month, on the first day of the month, the waters were dried up from the earth; and Noah removed the covering of the ark, and looked, and saw that the face of the ground was drying. In the second month, on the twenty-seventh day of the month, th...

Beautiful and Healthy For All (abby mohaupt)

September 24, 2019 09:00 - 6 minutes - 6.97 MB

"The people who are suffering the consequences of climate change the most didn’t even cause climate change." Where have you seen the impact of climate change in the world around you? // Genesis 1:1 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. // This episode was written and recorded by abby mohaupt. It was produced by Rev. Jim Keat. Background tracks include Trundle by Podington Bear and In the Dark You're More Colorful and Live For the Dead by Corina Repp. Visit www.trcnyc.o...

We Are Not Going Away (Beth Ackerman)

September 23, 2019 09:00 - 5 minutes - 5.94 MB

"Here’s what I believe: we are a part of an evolutionary force, co-creating with God." What does it look like for you to co-create with God? // This episode was written and recorded by Beth Ackerman. It was produced by Rev. Jim Keat. Background tracks include Trundle by Podington Bear, The Great Burn by Dave Depper, and Lightning by Kelly Pratt. Visit www.trcnyc.org/BeStillAndGo to listen to more episodes from all four seasons of Be Still and Go.

Creation's Joy (Ellen Davis)

September 22, 2019 09:00 - 8 minutes - 9.91 MB

"In our present age of massive climate disruption, we are seeing signs that should move us to healthy fear, to name our corporate sin and turn with renewed attention to the ways of the Creator God, who, as the psalmist sees, models careful, daily tending of the earth on which all life depends." What corporate sins does our culture need to name and repent from in order to tend the earth on which all life depends? // Psalm 65:3, 8, 12-13 Misdeeds – they are stronger than I am; our transgress...

Water (Jim Keat)

September 21, 2019 09:00 - 4 minutes - 5.69 MB

What can you do to conserve and care for water in our world? // The earth was a formless void and darkness covered the face of the deep, while a wind from God swept over the face of the waters. (Genesis 1:2) 71% of the earth is covered in water. So God created the great sea monsters and every living creature that moves, of every kind, with which the waters swarm, And God saw that it was good. (Genesis 1:21) Every year, more people die from unsafe water than from all forms of violence, in...

Another World Is Possible (The Riverside Church Youth Group)

September 20, 2019 09:00 - 6 minutes - 7.53 MB

“Another world is possible and God has given us all we need to live into it." What are you doing to support the global climate strike? // Mark 1:15 The time is fulfilled, the Kingdom of God has come near; repent and believe in the Good News. // This episode was written by The Riverside Youth Group — Santiago, Lucia. Athena, LaToya, Isabella, Mara. Chloe, Stephen, Charlotte, and Julian. It was recorded live on Sunday, October 15 at The Riverside Church. It was produced by Rev. Jim Keat. B...

The Micronesian Kingfisher (Farley Lord)

September 19, 2019 09:00 - 9 minutes - 10.3 MB

Creation praises because it exists, because it was created. Creation praises in the ways it can, because it can. What songs and sounds of praise do you hear in creation? // Psalm 148 Praise the Lord. Praise the Lord from the heavens; praise him in the heights above. Praise him, all his angels; praise him, all his heavenly hosts. Praise him, sun and moon; praise him, all you shining stars. Praise him, you highest heavens and you waters above the skies. Let them praise the n...

There Is Enough (Elyse Ambrose)

September 18, 2019 09:00 - 7 minutes - 8.11 MB

"Imagination enables us to find potentiality and to picture a new vision.” How might imagination change the way you approach environmental justice and all of its intersections? // There is no scarcity. There is no shortage. No lack of love, of compassion, of joy in the world. There is enough. There is more than enough. Only fear and greed make us think otherwise. No one need starve. There is enough land and enough food. No one need die of thirst. There is enough water. No one need live w...

The Only Economy That Really Matters (Brian McLaren)

September 17, 2019 09:00 - 6 minutes - 7.72 MB

Tortoises preach to me, in their own wordless way, of how life should be and can be, if we don’t let ourselves be defined by human social constructions and instead re-situate ourselves in the original evolutionary construction or unfolding that we call creation. What does it mean for you to live ecologically? // This episode was written and recorded by Brian McLaren. It was produced by Rev. Jim Keat. Background tracks include Trundle by Podington Bear and Mountain by Stephen Keech. Visit ...

The End of the World (Amanda Meisenheimer)

September 16, 2019 09:00 - 7 minutes - 8.96 MB

Dirt matters. Shit matters. When we bring an eternal perspective to our temporal home, we can see that resurrection is a reality, even on earth. What does the end of the world look like? // 1 Corinthians 15:55 “Where, O death, is your victory? Where, O death, is your sting?” // This episode was written and recorded by Amanda Meisenheimer. It was produced by Rev. Jim Keat. Background tracks include Trundle by Podington Bear and Ghost Suite by YEYEY. Visit www.trcnyc.org/BeStillAndGo to l...

A Better World Is Possible (David Black)

September 15, 2019 09:00 - 8 minutes - 9.94 MB

Don’t ever believe that the fire inside you is something you should grow out of. What kind of adult did you need when you were seven and seventeen? // Isaiah 11:6 The wolf shall live with the lamb, the leopard shall lie down with the kid, the calf and the lion and the fatling together, and a little child shall lead them // This episode was written and recorded by David Black. It was produced by Rev. Jim Keat. Background tracks include Trundle by Podington Bear, Calico and Desert ...

Save the Planet, Save your Soul (Jim Keat)

September 05, 2019 19:49 - 4 minutes - 5.1 MB

"What if we recognized that climate change is not just an environmental justice issue but also a spiritual issue? The earth is the Lord’s and everything in it. The way we treat the planet impacts our soul. For God so loved the world - the whole world, the entire cosmos - and so what if we did too?" In your opinion, what is the connection between climate change and spirituality? // Romans 8:21-22 [We wait] in hope that the creation itself will be set free from its bondage to decay and will ...

Blessed Easter (Amy Butler)

April 21, 2019 09:00 - 5 minutes - 6.07 MB

“Easter is about starting again when all we can see around us is devastation. It’s about changing laws that allow violence to proliferate. It’s about welcoming the marginalized into the mainstream. It’s about apologizing for wrongs long unaccounted for. It’s about owning up to the possibility that systems from which we benefit are crushing the souls of our neighbors. It’s about making amends that move us towards new realities." What does it look like to live into the hope of Easter in your l...

God Is Still Speaking (Jim Keat)

April 20, 2019 09:00 - 9 minutes - 10.7 MB

“God is still speaking in the chaos. God is still speaking in spite of us. And God is still speaking in the created world around us." Where do you hear God in the world around you? // This episode was written, recorded, and produced by Rev. Jim Keat. Background tracks include Button Mushrooms by Podington Bear. Soundscape locations include East Harlem, Union Square, Times Square, and Central Park. Visit www.trcnyc.org/BeStillAndGo to listen to more episodes from all three seasons of Be St...

Forsaken (Lawrence Richardson)

April 19, 2019 11:09 - 6 minutes - 7.93 MB

“At what point in our suffering do we question the presence of God? And at what point in our suffering do we acknowledge that our questioning of God is a natural response to such agony. Perhaps we need to question God more." When was a time you questioned the presence of God? // Matthew 27:46 And about three o’clock Jesus cried with a loud voice, “Eli, Eli, lema sabachthani?” that is, “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?” // This episode was written and recorded by Lawrence Richard...

Faith, Agency, Courage, and Resistance (Alex Da Silva Souto)

April 19, 2019 09:00 - 10 minutes - 11.6 MB

“Suffering and death do not have the last word. Jesus has and is the last word and these are words of faith, agency, courage, and resistance." What does it mean to that God has the last word? // Luke 23:46 Then Jesus, crying with a loud voice, said, “Father, into your hands I commend my spirit.” Having said this, he breathed his last. // This episode was written and recorded by Alex Da Silva Souto. It was produced by Rev. Jim Keat. Samples include Love and Hate by Michael Kiwanuka. Backg...

Take Your Seat (Christian Peele)

April 18, 2019 09:00 - 5 minutes - 6.73 MB

“God takes God’s seat right next to us.” What does it look like for you to join at the table of the story of God and us? // Luke 22:14-20 When the hour came, he took his place at the table, and the apostles with him. He said to them, “I have eagerly desired to eat this Passover with you before I suffer; for I tell you, I will not eat it until it is fulfilled in the kingdom of God.” Then he took a cup, and after giving thanks he said, “Take this and divide it among yourselves; for I tell yo...

It Is Finished, And... (Anna Meyer)

April 17, 2019 09:00 - 7 minutes - 8.04 MB

“God is here in the endings. God is here in the liminal spaces. And God is here waiting for us in the beginnings that we cannot even imagine yet. It is finished and it isn’t over." How can this Holy Week, with its endings and its beginnings and its in between, transform us? Can we recognize all of these as holy in our own lives, even when we don’t know what comes next? // John 19:30 When Jesus had received the wine, he said, “It is finished.” Then he bowed his head and gave up his spirit....

A Fiery Furnace (Jarell Wilson)

April 16, 2019 09:00 - 7 minutes - 8.58 MB

“God stands up to hatred and bigotry. God stands up to homophobia, racism, islamophobia, sexism, abolish, and all of the -isms we are yet to name. God is incapable of bowing to the false gods of this world." What injustices is God inviting you to stand up against? // Psalm 21:9-13 You will make them like a fiery furnace when you appear. The Lord will swallow them up in her wrath, and fire will consume them. You will destroy their offspring from the earth, and their children fro...

Save Us From Weak Resignation (Lynn Casteel Harper)

April 15, 2019 09:00 - 8 minutes - 9.75 MB

“This is why we need the season of Lent, to see more clearly one’s self and one’s community, to feel more deeply our limits and our need, and to join in solidarity with our suffering neighbors and our planet." Why do you need the season of Lent? // Isaiah 50:4-9 The Lord God has given me the tongue of a teacher, that I may know how to sustain the weary with a word. Morning by morning he wakens— wakens my ear to listen as those who are taught. The Lord God has opened my ear,...

Imagining Palm Sunday (Farley Lord)

April 14, 2019 09:00 - 10 minutes - 11.6 MB

“Jesus, riding the colt, passes by. Your eyes meet. The colt slows down. What do you do? What do you feel?" What do you think it would have been like to be in Jerusalem on Palm Sunday? // Luke 19:29-38 When he had come near Bethphage and Bethany, at the place called the Mount of Olives, he sent two of the disciples, saying, “Go into the village ahead of you, and as you enter it you will find tied there a colt that has never been ridden. Untie it and bring it here. If anyone asks you, ‘Why a...

Untie and Set Free (J.J. Warren)

April 13, 2019 09:00 - 9 minutes - 11.2 MB

“We are called to go and to untie, to set free and not to exclude. This story reminds us that the lowly, even those that society and the church ties down, will be used to do the work of God in our world today.” How have you seen churches and our society constrain and tie people down? What does it look like for you to work to help set these people free? // Luke 19:29-36 When he had come near Bethphage and Bethany, at the place called the Mount of Olives, he sent two of the disciples, saying...

Second Line (Alisha Gordon)

April 12, 2019 09:00 - 7 minutes - 8.38 MB

“To give of your best, even when death is staring you in the face, is an act of rebellion against death’s vicious sting." What does it look like for you to give of your best? // John 12:1-8 Six days before the Passover Jesus came to Bethany, the home of Lazarus, whom he had raised from the dead. There they gave a dinner for him. Martha served, and Lazarus was one of those at the table with him. Mary took a pound of costly perfume made of pure nard, anointed Jesus’ feet, and wiped them with...

I Am a Jesus Person (Amanda Meisenheimer)

April 11, 2019 09:00 - 8 minutes - 9.83 MB

“We often skip to the resurrection, we often skip to butterfly Jesus all the way past caterpillar Jesus. But a life spent with Jesus is a life of wilderness and suffering, a life on the margins.” Where are the margins in our world today and who is pushed into them? // Philippians 3:4b-14 If anyone else has reason to be confident in the flesh, I have more: circumcised on the eighth day, a member of the people of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew born of Hebrews; as to the law, a Ph...

Facing Pain (Guthrie Graves-Fitzsimmons)

April 10, 2019 09:00 - 11 minutes - 12.9 MB

“There aren’t two sides to this story — the wilderness of Lent and the joy of Easter — it’s one story, one narrative." What pain in your life do you tend to avoid? What might change if you acknowledge or face it? // Matthew 26:36-46 Then Jesus went with them to a place called Gethsemane; and he said to his disciples, “Sit here while I go over there and pray.” He took with him Peter and the two sons of Zebedee, and began to be grieved and agitated. Then he said to them, “I am deeply grieved...

Human (Rachel Johnson)

April 09, 2019 09:00 - 11 minutes - 13.6 MB

“Christianity has a God who knows exactly what it means to be human." In your own words, what does it mean to be human? // John 19:28 After this, when Jesus knew that all was now finished, he said (in order to fulfill the scripture), “I am thirsty.” // This episode was written and recorded by Rev. Rachel Johnson. It was produced by Rev. Jim Keat. Samples include What If God Was One of Us by Joan Osborn (cover by Jessica Bassett), The Good Place, and Doubting Thomas by Nickel Creek. Backg...

A New Thing (Michelle Ledder)

April 08, 2019 09:00 - 9 minutes - 10.7 MB

“Our first temptation is to look at what new thing God is doing now rather than to look hard at the history, both ancient and contemporary, to face down the evil which we might not have created but from which we certainly benefit.” In your opinion, what is the evil that needs to be faced down from our ancient and contemporary history? // Isaiah 43:16-21 Thus says the Lord, who makes a way in the sea, a path in the mighty waters, who brings out chariot and horse, army and warrior; they lie ...

Pass Judgement (Michael Livingston)

April 07, 2019 09:00 - 8 minutes - 10.1 MB

“No one of us can solve the conflicts raging unabated across the globe. But I can refuse to buy or use plastic. What’s a few more dishes to wash? It’s not an ultimate answer. It’s a small fast for a season and maybe a new beginning.” What steps can you take towards a new beginning for our world? // Romans 14:10 Why do you pass judgment on your brother or sister? Or you, why do you despise your brother or sister? For we will all stand before the judgment seat of God. // This episode was w...

You Hear the Lambs A-Cryin' (Intersection / St. Michael's)

April 06, 2019 09:00 - 5 minutes - 5.77 MB

You hear the lambs a-cryin' hear the lambs a-cryin', hear the lambs a-cryin'; O Shepherd, feed my sheep. Where do you hear the lambs crying in your midst? // My Saviour spoke these words so sweet, O shepherd, feed my sheep. Saying 'Peter, if you love me, feed my sheep.' O shepherd, feed my sheep. O Lord, my love you see and know; O shepherd, feed my sheep. Then give me grace to love you more; O shepherd, feed my sheep. O wasn't it an awful shame? O shepherd, feed my sheep. He hung three...

The Older Brother (Graham Bridgeman)

April 05, 2019 09:00 - 7 minutes - 8.02 MB

“Loosen our grasp on the things we own and the things we do so that we might once again see the love, the family, and the blessings of the table that God has set for us." What does it mean for you to accept the love, family, and blessings that God has for you? // Luke 15:11-32 Then Jesus said, “There was a man who had two sons. The younger of them said to his father, ‘Father, give me the share of the property that will belong to me.’ So he divided his property between them. A few days late...

Selah (Jim Keat)

April 04, 2019 09:00 - 8 minutes - 9.98 MB

"You are not a human doing. You are a human being. Selah." When was the last time you pushed pause on the chaos around you and inside of you? // Psalm 32:3-5, 7 While I kept silence, my body wasted away through my groaning all day long. my strength was dried up as by the heat of summer. Selah. I said, “I will confess my transgressions to the Lord,” and you forgave the guilt of my sin. Selah. You are a hiding place for me; you preserve me from trouble; you surround me with...

Abandoned (M Barclay)

April 03, 2019 09:00 - 9 minutes - 10.7 MB

“We are sacred possibilities, the image of God always ready to manifest in our skin.” What does it look like for the image of God to manifest in your skin? // Matthew 27:46 And about three o’clock Jesus cried with a loud voice, “Eli, Eli, lema sabachthani?” that is, “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?” // This episode was written and recorded by Rev. M. Barclay. It was produced by Rev. Jim Keat. Background tracks include Button Mushrooms, Chimera, and Burned by Podington Bear and ...

Our Heavenly Update (Charlene Wingate)

April 02, 2019 09:00 - 5 minutes - 5.84 MB

“Every moment, every challenge, every person has the potential to become new." What needs to be made new in your life? // 2 Corinthians 5:16-21 From now on, therefore, we regard no one from a human point of view; even though we once knew Christ from a human point of view, we know him no longer in that way. So if anyone is in Christ, there is a new creation: everything old has passed away; see, everything has become new! All this is from God, who reconciled us to himself through Christ, and...

The Time Has Come (Kevin VanHook)

April 01, 2019 09:00 - 7 minutes - 8.26 MB

“Let’s write new chapters and create new stories together." What are the new chapters and new stories that God is inviting you to write? // Joshua 5:9-12 The Lord said to Joshua, “Today I have rolled away from you the disgrace of Egypt.” And so that place is called Gilgal to this day. While the Israelites were camped in Gilgal they kept the passover in the evening on the fourteenth day of the month in the plains of Jericho. On the day after the passover, on that very day, they ate the prod...

You Gotta Wade Through Those Troubled Waters (Karen Oliveto)

March 31, 2019 09:00 - 14 minutes - 16.2 MB

“You gotta wade through those troubled waters, take hold of your life, put your feet into the messy places, and trust that you will move through the troubled waters to that place, that peace which passes all understanding." What are the troubled waters that you need to step into? // John 5:1-9 Soon another Feast came around and Jesus was back in Jerusalem. Near the Sheep Gate in Jerusalem there was a pool, in Hebrew called Bethesda, with five alcoves. Hundreds of sick people—blind, cripple...

We Resist (Bruce Lamb)

March 30, 2019 09:00 - 12 minutes - 14 MB

“We are called to see our life work for justice and peace as preparation for resurrection." What are you doing to prepare for and practice resurrection? // “We resist. We refuse to let hatred in. We rise up. We won’t back down. We’re in this til the end. Pray for your enemies. Welcome the stranger. Show love to your neighbor. We’re in this til the end.” – Mark Miller // This episode was written and recorded by Rev. Bruce Lamb. It was produced by Rev. Jim Keat. Samples include We Resist ...

That Kind of Theology (Cameron Trimble)

March 29, 2019 10:24 - 13 minutes - 14.9 MB

“Lent is an opportunity to consider all the ways God has seen you through the challenges of your life, not as the cause of them but as your greatest supporter through them.” What was a challenge in your life where you felt God supporting you? // 1 Corinthians 10:1-10, 13 Remember our history, friends, and be warned. All our ancestors were led by the providential Cloud and taken miraculously through the Sea. They went through the waters, in a baptism like ours, as Moses led them from enslav...

Bad Things Happen (Amanda Meisenheimer)

March 28, 2019 09:00 - 7 minutes - 8.21 MB

“When bad things happen to some, they happen to all of us." Why do bad things happen to good people? // Luke 13:1-9 At that very time there were some present who told him about the Galileans whose blood Pilate had mingled with their sacrifices. He asked them, “Do you think that because these Galileans suffered in this way they were worse sinners than all other Galileans? No, I tell you; but unless you repent, you will all perish as they did. Or those eighteen who were killed when the tower...

Family (Rachel Cornwell)

March 27, 2019 09:00 - 7 minutes - 8.57 MB

“We belong to one another. We never have to be alone." Where do you go to feel a sense of belonging? // John 19:26-27 When Jesus saw his mother and the disciple whom he loved standing beside her, he said to his mother, “Woman, here is your son.” Then he said to the disciple, “Here is your mother.” And from that hour the disciple took her into his own home. // This episode was written and recorded by Rev. Rachel Cornwell. It was produced by Rev. Jim Keat. Background tracks include Button ...

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