Tag: Jesus
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Oct. 21 Gathering: Miracles (do they matter?)
Maybe we need to know miracles are real. Maybe we need to hope that the impossible can happen.
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July 29 Gathering: “Burn Down the Mission”
Has Christian mission always been a positive influence in the world? Or is there a dark side, one we need to figuratively burn down, in order to recapture our call to the missio dei, God’s mission for God’s world?
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June 17 Gathering: Salt & Light
How exactly do we go about being salt and light in our world today? And what does our community look like when we do?
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March 25 Gathering: Palm Sunday–Celebration or Subversion?
So what if we’re missing the point of Palm Sunday. What if it’s less celebration and more subversion? Not so much a shindig as a scandal?
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March 11 Gathering: Faith or Fear?
Often, it seems our faith is motivated more by fear than by love. Fear of death, fear of the other, fear of the unknown. Fear of punishment. Fear of hell.
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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.