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The Spirit Unscripted

July 03, 2019 18:00 - 24 minutes - 16.7 MB

This Sunday, the Day of Pentecost, we will continue our sermon series, Acts: Stories, Scenes, & Spirit. The text we will explore together is Acts 2:1-13, in which the Holy Spirit makes a fiery whirlwind appearance on stage. The Spirit's presence is an unexpected, interrupting, and intimate force. It comes over and enters into the men and women disciples, resting in their mouths and touching their tongue's. The Spirit shatters any expectations of nativism or privatism to give birth to a new ...

Welcoming the Stranger Missional Community: Panel Discussion

June 06, 2019 21:00 - 52 minutes - 24 MB

On Tuesday, April 23, 2019 our Welcoming the Stranger Missional Community hosted a panel discussion on the global refugee crisis, current immigration discourse and policies, and how we as a Christian community can respond.

The Stage is Set

June 06, 2019 18:00 - 36 minutes - 16.9 MB

This Sunday, Ascension Sunday, we will begin a new sermon series, Acts: Stories, Scenes, & Spirit. We will walk through the book of Acts paying attention to the ways in which God's Spirit was at work in the world forming a community called Church. It is a book that goes beyond objective historical reporting of the early church, but is described by Dr. Willie Jennings as, a book that produces a "life-giving historical consciousness...that pulls us toward a future with God in the new creation"...

To A Church Called By God

June 06, 2019 17:00 - 27 minutes - 12.5 MB

This Sunday, the Sixth Sunday of Easter, we continue to explore the letter Paul wrote to the church in the city of Corinth. As Loop prepares to transition to a new worshiping facility in June, (our first service at the new facility will be June 16) we reflect on what Paul's words to the young church in Corinth may mean for us today. The text we will explore together is I Corinthians 1:26-31, in which Paul continues to marvel at the backwards ways in which God is at work in the world in an...

To A Church Called By God

June 06, 2019 17:00 - 27 minutes - 12.5 MB

This Sunday, the Sixth Sunday of Easter, we continue to explore the letter Paul wrote to the church in the city of Corinth. As Loop prepares to transition to a new worshiping facility in June, (our first service at the new facility will be June 16) we reflect on what Paul's words to the young church in Corinth may mean for us today. The text we will explore together is I Corinthians 1:26-31, in which Paul continues to marvel at the backwards ways in which God is at work in the world in an...

Christ Concealed, Christ Revealed: Faith in God's Reign

May 14, 2019 16:00 - 26 minutes - 12.4 MB

This Sunday, the Fourth Sunday of Easter, we will finish our sermon series entitled, “Thy Kingdom Come: The Great Reversals of God’s Reign in Luke’s Gospel,” on the road to Emmaus. The text we will explore together is Luke 24:13-32, where two disciples traveling down the Emmaus road are trying to make sense of the conflicting realities of cross and empty tomb. Jesus joins the burdened and bewildered disciples on the road, concealed in the flesh of a stranger. The story continues through the...

Arriving at an Empty Tomb: Resurrection in God's Reign

May 14, 2019 16:00 - 27 minutes - 12.6 MB

This Sunday, Easter Sunday, we will finish our sermon series entitled, “Thy Kingdom Come: The Great Reversals of God’s Reign in Luke’s Gospel,” with one last Great Reversal that changes everything! The text we will explore together is Luke 24:1-12, where we find a group of faithful women going to the tomb of Jesus to perform one final act of devotion before beginning the long road back to Galilee. Arriving at the tomb, they find the stone rolled away and the grave empty...At a loss for wor...

Called to the Table: Dinner Etiquette in God’s Reign

April 11, 2019 04:00 - 31 minutes - 14.3 MB

(SORRY! First 30 seconds of this episode is silence, skip ahead to 0:33) This Sunday, the Fifth Sunday of Lent, we will continue our sermon series entitled, “Thy Kingdom Come: The Great Reversals of God’s Reign in Luke’s Gospel.” The text we will explore together is Luke 14:1-24, a passage in which Jesus finds himself at a dinner party hosted by a pharisee. Over the course of the meal Jesus is anything but polite, he interrupts the exchange of dinner table pleasantries to criticize the gu...

Thy Kingdom Come? Worrying in God’s Reign

April 11, 2019 04:00 - 23 minutes - 10.9 MB

This Sunday, the Fourth Sunday of Lent, we will continue our sermon series entitled, “Thy Kingdom Come: The Great Reversals of God’s Reign in Luke’s Gospel.” The text we will explore together is Luke 12:22-34, a passage in which Jesus employs the black ravens of the sky, and the white lilies of the field to teach the disciples about the unavailing affects of anxiety. In the midst of poverty, Jesus instructs the disciples not to worry. In the midst of foreign occupation, Jesus instructs t...

Teach us to Pray: The Posture of Prayer in God's Reign

April 02, 2019 04:00 - 29 minutes - 13.6 MB

This Sunday, the Third Sunday of Lent, we will continue our sermon series entitled, “Thy Kingdom Come: The Great Reversals of God’s Reign in Luke’s Gospel.” The text we will explore together is Luke 11:1-13, a passage in which Jesus' journey to Jerusalem is interrupted by a disciple seeking a seminar on prayer. Jesus teaches the disciples a particular prayer, the Lord's Prayer, and persists in the tutorial by telling a few parables. What will the stories of a midnight-knocking at a neig...

What Must I Do: Neighborliness in God’s Reign

March 19, 2019 04:00 - 38 minutes - 17.5 MB

"What Must I Do: Neighborliness in God’s Reign" Luke 10:25-37 Sunday, March 17, 2019 Pastor Derek Elmi-Buursma The text we explore together is Luke 10:25-37, a familiar story only found in Luke's Gospel: The Parable of the Good Samaritan. An expert in the law asks Jesus two questions that provoke the telling of the parable: What must I do to inherit eternal life? Who is my neighbor? Jesus's parable confronts our tendency to limit our love to people like us. It pushes us to enter into situa...

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