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since Jan. 26, 2025
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Send us Fan Mail Poverty doesn’t look like one problem and it doesn’t have one clean fix. We start our group book study of Poverty, by America by challenging the most common shortcut definition of poverty as simply “not enough money” and instead tracing it as a web of housing instability, health ga…

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Send us Fan Mail Preaching: Rev. Dr. Stephen M. Fearing Texts: Exodus 32:1-14 & Matthew 22:1-14 A wedding invitation turns into a city on fire. A camp cookout turns into a golden calf. If that sounds like whiplash, you’re hearing the same tension we wrestle with today: God keeps setting the tab…
Send us Fan Mail Preaching: Rev. Dr. Stephen M. Fearing Text: Matthew 21:33-46 A preschooler asks, “Do you own the church?” and suddenly a famous Bible story stops being abstract. We take Jesus’ Parable of the Wicked Tenants (Matthew 21:33–46) out of the “ancient vineyard” and into everyday church …
Send us Fan Mail Guest Speaker: David LaMotte We’ve all seen the plot: a crisis hits, a special person shows up, dramatic action saves the day, and everyone else claps. David LaMotte argues that story is not just entertainment, it quietly trains us to feel powerless. If you’ve ever looked at the ne…
Send us Fan Mail Special Guest: David LaMotte Something is off in the gut, and we can feel it. Sitting down live with songwriter and activist David LaMotte, we start with “splengnitzomai,” a Greek word for compassion that describes the bodily jolt of realizing the world is not as it should be. From…
Send us Fan Mail Special Guest Preacher: David LaMotte The Good Samaritan might be the most quoted story in Christianity and also one of the most misunderstood. We sit down with singer-songwriter, speaker, and author David LaMotte to hear why Jesus tells this parable in a way that would have sounde…
Send us Fan Mail Preaching: Rev. Dr. Stephen M. Fearing Texts: Jonah 3:10-4:11 God’s generosity can be the most comforting thing in the world until it shows up for someone we think doesn’t deserve it. We start with Jonah watching Nineveh get mercy and realizing he would rather have fireworks than f…
Send us Fan Mail A hymn gets stuck in your head and suddenly you are humming your way through the day, whether you meant to or not. We lean into that idea and ask a surprising question: what if that looping melody is actually a form of prayer, a lived version of “pray without ceasing”? From a lifel…
Send us Fan Mail Preaching: Rev. Dr. Stephen M. Fearing Texts: Exodus 14:19-31 & Matthew 18:21-35 A sea splits, an army panics, and a cloud becomes both darkness and light. We start with Exodus 14 because it paints the clearest picture of what God’s rescue feels like: trapped, afraid, outmatche…
Send us Fan Mail Preaching: Rev. Dr. Stephen M. Fearing Texts: 2 Kings 25 When the world feels like a fire hose to the face, it’s tempting to numb out, romanticize the past, or assume nothing can change. We start with the raw Scripture of 2 Kings 25, where Jerusalem falls and the Babylonian exile b…
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