Tag: Jesus
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Jan. 28 Gathering: What’s Our Story?
As it happens, stories have immense power. And what we do with the power of our own stories in many ways defines who it is that we actually are.
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Sept. 10 Gathering: “Peace on Earth”
Beyond cheap platitudes and religious-speak, is there really a way peace on earth could actually be realized?
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April 23 Gathering: What difference does Resurrection make?
What do we really know about the Resurrection? What did it mean to the first followers of Jesus, and how does that impact our lives today?
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April 9 Gathering: The Scandal of Holy Week
This Sunday at New Wineskins, we’ll reflect on the Passion stories that guide our worship of the resurrected Jesus and look behind the scenes to see what deeper significance they might have for us in our present contexts.
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March 26 Gathering: Stories of Forgiveness
But what if forgiveness is actually a way of making us more free? What if it’s a key that unlocks something remarkable in us, that allows us to take relationships even deeper?
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Feb. 26 Gathering: Focusing through Lent
Regardless of how we choose to observe Lent, it is primarily a season of focus. Whether we choose to abstain from a thing or a habit for this six weeks, or add a new dimension to our spiritual lives, or engage in some sort of weekly discipline, our goal is to focus on Jesus and…
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Feb. 12 Gathering: Surviving Spiritual Dry Spells
Spiritual dry spells may be hard to explain, but they are very real. And whether they bring sadness, frustration, or disheartening, we all have our own ways of coping.
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Jan. 29 Gathering: Living Through the Psalms
What is it about the Psalms that make them so universal to our spiritual experience? Why were they so important to the early Jews and the first Christians? And what do they still have to say to us–and for us–today?
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Jan. 15 Gathering: Unity?
Is unity really even possible? Is there a way to break down the walls we’ve built between us?