Tag: new wineskins
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Aug. 18 Gathering: “The Kingdom of Heaven Is Like…”
What is Jesus getting at in his parables about the kingdom of heaven? Who was he talking to and why? What does he even mean by “the kingdom of heaven?”
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Aug. 4 Gathering: The Parable of the Wheat and the Weeds (with guest host Kevin Malcomb!)
But as with all parables, there is a deeper story behind the story. And this week, our own Kevin Malcomb will lead our discussion into the layers below the surface!
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July 21 Gathering: The Parable of the Pharisee and the Tax Collector
As usual, Jesus is painting on a larger canvas. His teachings are far more rarely about individual morality than they are about society and culture. The whole rather than the one.
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June 2 Gathering: Active Nonviolence (or “War: What is it Good For?)
Despite our best efforts to strive for peace, we eventually resort to violence as a means to either get our way or defend ourselves.
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April 28 Gathering: Resurrection
What if resurrection is really not a miracle at all? What if resurrection was the most natural thing we could possibly believe in? What if it’s the most natural thing we could experience?
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April 14 Gathering: Holy Week (and free food!)
For centuries, communities of people who follow the ways of Jesus have marked the days of Holy Week in special ways.
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Dec. 30 Gathering: Watch Night
Watch Night is a traditional New Year’s Eve time of reflection, emancipation, and covenant renewal.
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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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Sept. 23 Gathering: Who is God?
It’s maybe the deepest question there is: Who (or what) is God? What do we think about when we think and talk about God? A bearded old man in the sky? A “life force” or energy field of some kind? How can God be both personal and universal? Since questions are more interesting than answers,…
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Sept. 9 Gathering: This is water
What would it look like for us to recognize more deeply the world outside of our own heads?