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1. Epiphany - Paul Burkhart | 1.4.26

   Jan 7, 2026

   Ephesians 3:1-12; Matthew 2:1-12 Today the Magi gaze in deep wonder at what they see: heaven on earth, earth in heaven, man in God, God in man, one whom the whole universe cannot contain now enclosed in a tiny body. - St. Peter Chrysologus, 5th Century

2. Rejoicing in the Lord - Rev. Chris Currie | 12.28.25

   Dec 29, 2025

   Isaiah 61:10-62:3; John 1:1-18 You could more easily catch a hurricane in a shrimp net that you can understand the wild, relentless, passionate, uncompromising, pursuing love of God made present in the manger. - Brennan Manning

3. Waiting for Renewal - Rev. Chris Currie | 12.21.25

   Dec 22, 2025

   Isaiah 35:1-10 The human race cannot expect to receive any lasting comfort from the world. The comfort we so desperately need must come from somewhere else - in a burst of transcendent power breaking upon our ears from beyond our sphere altogether. - Fleming Rutledge, "Advent Begins in the Dark"

4. The Christ Story - Rev. Chris Currie | 12.14.25

   Dec 15, 2025

   John 1:1-14 Lessons & Carols 2025 Into this world, this demented inn in which there is absolutely no room for him at all, Christ comes uninvited. - Thomas Merton, "The Time of the End is the Time of No Room," in Raids on the Unspeakable

5. Waiting for Justice - 12.7.25 | Rev. Chris Currie

   Dec 8, 2025

   Isaiah 11:1-10 Working against injustice and all that is broken in our world begins with seeking God, who loves justice and who longs for the world to flourish... But the work of justice is hard and long. And while seeing justice accomplished brings one of the most exhilirating joys a follower of Jesus Christ could ever know, the journey to victory is fraught with difficulties. More often than not

6. Waiting for Peace - 11.30.25 | Dr. Cyndi Parker

   Dec 1, 2025

   Isaiah 2:1-5 The Advent season should come as a reminder to us that we can never be, and should not be, adjusted to the world. We are here to proclaim the reality and the imminence of a wholly other world, a world in which different powers rule and different standards operate. We are here to make it possible for ordinary men and women really to believe this, and therefore to live in hope and readi

7. King Jesus - 11.23.25 | Rev. Chris Currie

   Nov 24, 2025

   Luke 20:19-44 It is the call of the Son from heaven, and the vision of the new Jerusalem descending from heaven, that pushes back on our illusions that we could figure this all out, that we could bring this about. Shalom is not biblical language for progressivist social amelioration. Shalom is a Christ-haunted call to long for kingdom come. - James K. A. Smith, Awaiting the King

8. The Authority of Jesus - 11.16.25 | Rev. Chris Currie

   Nov 17, 2025

   Luke 20:1-18 Surrender goes against the grain of autonomy and self-control. Under any circumstances other than trustworthy love, it may be extremely unwise. But in response to Perfect Love personally known, resistance can quickly dissipate and surrender becomes effortless - almost natural. The surrender Jesus invites from us - choosing his will and his life over his own - can never be motivated by

9. Jesus & Zacchaeus - 11.9.25 | Dr. Cyndi Parker

   Nov 11, 2025

   Ezek 34:11-16; Luke 19:1-10 God is Christlike and in him there is no un-Christlikeness at all. - Michael Ramsey and John V. Taylor, The Christlike God

10. The Way of the Kingdom - 11.2.25 - All Saints Day | Rev. Chris Currie

    Nov 3, 2025

    Luke 18:9-34

11. Grace & Gratitude - 10.26.25 | Ryan McCormick

    Oct 27, 2025

    Luke 17:1-19 Once we learn that grace is not opposed to effort (action) - though it is opposed to earning (attitude) - the way is open for us to "work out" all that is involved in our salvation, not only "with fear and trembling" but also with the calm assurance that it is God who is at work in us to accomplish all of His goodwill. - Dallas Willard, The Great Omission

12. The Law & the Kingdom - 10.19.25 | Dr. Cyndi Parker

    Oct 20, 2025

    Luke 16:13-31 Our deepest life consists in a willed correspondence with the world of the Spirit, and this willed correspondence, which is prayer, is destined to fulfil itself along two main channels; in love towards God and in love towards humanity - two loves which at last and at their highest become one love…. This is not mere pious fluff. This is a terribly practical job; the only way in which

13. The Prodigal Son - 10.12.25 | Rev. Chris Currie

    Oct 14, 2025

    Luke 15:11-32 The question is not “How am I to find God?” but “How am I to let myself be found by him?” The question is not “How am I to know God?” but “How am I to let myself be known by God?” And, finally, the question is not “How am I to love God?” but “How am I to let myself be loved by God?” God is looking into the distance for me, trying to find me, and longing to bring me home.” - Henri Nou

14. Rejoicing with God - 10.5.25 | Rev. Meg Jenista Kuykendall

    Oct 6, 2025

    Luke 15:1-10 Nearly all areas of life in which we could become spiritually competent (hearing God and receiving divine guidance among them) confront us with the same type of challenge. They all require of us a choice to be a spiritual person, to live a spiritual life. We are required to "bet our life" that the visible world, while real, is not reality itself. - Dallas Willard, Hearing God

15. The Cost of Discipleship - 9.28.25 | Paul Burkhart

    Sep 29, 2025

    Luke 14:25-35 The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult; and left untried. - G. K. Chesterton

16. The King's Banquet - 9.21.25 | Dr. Cyndi Parker

    Sep 22, 2025

    Luke 14:1-24; Isaiah 55:1-8 The future is given to those who are experienced in groaning. The future is denied to those who have been cynical and calloused and self-deceiving enough to rejoice in the present ordering and are unable to grieve about the ruin toward which the royal community is headed.... The staggering works of Jesus - feeding, healing, casting out, forgiving - happened not to those

17. The Presence of the Kingdom - 9.14.25 | Rev. Chris Currie

    Sep 15, 2025

    Luke 13:18-35 When we submit our lives to what we read in Scripture, we find that we are not being led to see God in our stories but our stories in God's. God is the larger context and plot in which our stories find themselves. - Eugene Peterson, Eat This Book

18. Judgement & Mercy - 9.7.25 | Rev. Chris Currie

    Sep 8, 2025

    Luke 13:1-17 There is mystery in God. If God could be fit into our puny human minds, or limited to our experience of him, or contained in our theological description of his ways, he would be too small a God to worship. - R. Paul Stevens and Michael Green, Living the Story: Biblical Spirituality for Everyday Christians

19. You Must Be Ready - 8.31.25 | Rev. Chris Currie

    Sep 2, 2025

    Luke 12:35-56 What about those who have strayed from God's path, those whose eyes have veered in idolatrous directions? Are such people simply to die of spiritual thirst in the desert? No, the opposite is true. God uses the wilderness to win many back when they stray. With God, streams of living water appear in the desert. - Mark Sayers, A Non-Anxious Presence

20. Fear Not, Little Flock - 8.24.25 | Rev. Chris Currie

    Aug 25, 2025

    Luke 12:13-34 Fear is not a Christian habit of mind. - Marilynne Robinson, The Givenness of Things