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Crossings Knoxville
by Crossings Knoxville
Crossings Knoxville is a faith community in Knoxville, Tennessee that launched in 2007. We exist to help people find their way back to God.
Episodes
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Stumps, Lions, Lambs, and One Prophecy (Isaiah 10:5-12:6)
What's your one story, sermon, or voice you feel yourself trying to get into the world? How can we see Isaiah and prophecy as an invitation to add our voice to an ongoing story, rather than accepting the past as closed? How can we keep faith alive despite disappointments? Worship Songs: Holy…
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Where is Love Now? (Isaiah 5:1-30)
Our study takes a turn to a love song in Isaiah 5 about a farmer and his vineyard. The love song quickly becomes a devastating one that turns the questions back to us. This text forces us to confront the dehumanizing practices in our society and what we actually expect justice to look like.…
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How To Tell A True Prophecy Story (Isaiah 36:1-39:8)
How do we tell a true story when the details of the past don't seem complete? How do we keep telling our stories as we evolve? What story do we want to tell about ourselves in 5-10 years?
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The Prophet and the Poet (Isaiah 7:1-8:22)
Isaiah 7-8 introduces a complex historical situation that, if we take the time to study it, will remind us of God's ongoing presence with us, including in the birth-of-Christ narrative in Matthew. It's a poem and prophecy that asks us to name the physical signs of God's presence in ways the…
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Imagine a Prophet (Isaiah 6:1-13)
What comes to mind when we picture a prophet or a prophetic book? How might the book of Isaiah challenge us to evaluate our biases or unconscious participation in culture? How can we join an ongoing conversation of prophecy as we reinvent traditions, correct past mistakes, and build a more...
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The Impossible Prophet (Isaiah 1:1)
As we begin our 12-week study of Isaiah, we hope to ask questions about what it would mean for us to find home again. How can we engage the impossible task of being human, finding meaning, and searching for God? What would it mean to find healing and build a more resilient faith from ancient...
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Rocks and Shores (Beyond the Blue Week 3)
When Jesus invites his friends to breakfast, he's inviting them to reenact a story. Reenacting the story is essentially what we do together each week, and Molly unpacks why it's the reason she stays Christian. This is the last part of a series where Molly shares reflections of her sabbatical....
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Ghosts and Fairies (Beyond the Blue Week 2)
What if faith doesn’t require us to choose between a grounded, reality-based life and a sense of wonder, mystery, and enchantment? In the story of Peter walking on water, we explored what it means to step beyond certainty, encounter the sacred in the natural world, and trust that something might…
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Crosses and Coracles (Beyond the Blue Week 1)
Molly is back from sabbatical sharing stories of her time in Ireland and Scotland, connecting them with stories from the gospels that take place in boats. This teachings asks about the direction of trust in the story of Jesus calming the storm. Worship Songs: God With Us Cornerstone Goodness of…
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A Mosaic of Connection (Poet's Eyes Week 5)
Is the work of building a life of faith a solitary burden or a communal project? What happens when the stories we inherit don't seem to fit the lives we are actually living? Can we treat our doubts, wounds, and contradictions not as failures, but as the essential materials for a new foundation?...
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Reverence/Irreverence (Poet's Eyes Week 4)
What is the dynamic between reverence and irreverence in faith? How can we adopt the posture of the "holy fool" in our lives? Where do we need to embrace the imperfections in order to create, play, and grow? Worship Songs This is My Father's World Nothing I Hold On To Make Room Teaching Song…
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Faith Re-Vision (Poet's Eyes Week 3)
Worship Songs: Be Thou My Vision Path of Sorrow You Hold it All Teaching Song: Winning Streak GBTG/Shalom: Jen Cunic
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Adventures of a Garden Gnome (Poet's Eyes Week 2)
What is the role of surprise in faith? How can we be more present to our stories? Where do we least expect to find God hiding? How can we take more risks to dare to go where we've always longed to go? Worship Songs: Holy Spirit For The Beauty Bind Us Together Christ Be All Around Me
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Constraint, General Magic, and the Narrow Way (Poet's Eyes - Week 1)
How can we embrace our faith journey with Poet’s Eyes? How can we learn to see faith as a set of creative constraints—imperfect but liberating? Where can we experiment with our limitations and be freed up to live more fully? Worship Songs: I Will Sing You Hold It All Oceans Teaching Song: Faith
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Peace and Tactical Frivolity (Esther Week 4)
The story of Esther is, in part, a script for the holiday of Purim. The Purim festival celebrates hidden identities, humor, and survival. How can we enact more "tactical frivolity" in turbulent times? How do we address the violent themes in Esther's story and our own world? How can we both laugh…
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Who Knows (Esther Week 2)
How are uncertainty and faith necessary partners? Just as Esther attempts to rewrite King Saul’s failures in 1 Samuel 15, how can we rewrite and redeem the failures of Christianity, our family trees, and our own lives? Can we get unstuck and just start moving, even if we don't know what will...
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A Mirror and a Hammer (Esther Week 1)
The book of Esther invites us to grapple with God’s hiddenness in the world. Is our survival and success up to us or is God hiding behind the scenes? Are those in power seriously dangerous or laughable? How much of our identity do we feel like we need to conceal to fit in? What do we do when our...
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My Most Important Question Week 2 (What do I do with these parts? What If I'm (still) Wrong?)
Questions are an essential element of faith. Our community is called "Crossings" in reference to a story in Genesis in which Jacob wrestles with God before crossing the River Jabbok. Wrestling and questioning aren't opposed to faith; they are the necessary conditions for it. Each summer, we pass...
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My Most Important Question Week One (Where is God in the Dark, If all are invited, why don't some people feel like this table is for them? )
Questions are an essential element of faith. Our community is called "Crossings" in reference to a story in Genesis in which Jacob wrestles with God before crossing the River Jabbok. Wrestling and questioning aren't opposed to faith; they are the necessary conditions for it. Each summer, we pass...
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Language as an Act of Faith (Pentacost Sunday)
Pentecost is a celebration of a new world and a new understanding of language. How can we see language as an act of faith? How can we feel empowered to let go of old concepts and ideas that no longer fit us? How can we use communication to include rather than exclude? Psalm Reading: Psalm...
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Hiraeth and the Creation of Podcast Music
Take a look (or a listen?) behind the curtain into the intro and outro music for the Crossings Podcast. This episode is not one of our regular teachings, but rather a quick conversation about the creative process for the music for each series.
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Rocketship Jesus (Eastertide Week 7)
Jesus didn't wait until everything was perfect before he handed it all over to his friends and walked away. On this final Sunday of Eastertide, we explore the Ascension — what it means that Jesus left, what he prayed for before he did, and why the angels asked the disciples to stop looking up and...
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An Advocate for Now (Eastertide Week 6)
How can we reimagine or experience the Holy Spirit as advocacy for us here and now? How can we see the Divine all around us and in unexpected places? What if we didn’t have to hold it all or do it all? What if paying attention is enough? OT Reading: Acts 17:22-31 Gospel Reading: John 14:15-21...
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Only for Love to Grasp (Eastertide Week 5)
Rather than offering rigid rules or exclusive expectations, Jesus speaks tenderly to his anxious friends, reassuring them that they already know the way to life with God because they have known him. Gospel Reading: John 14:1-14 Worship Songs: Yet Not I Goodness of God Build My Life Take Heart
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Abundant Life, As Is (Eastertide Week 4)
In the fourth week of Easter, John 10 challenges our culture of scarcity and anxiety with questions about abundance. What does it mean to be completely new? How can we focus on the voice of Jesus’ teachings and ethics? Can we learn to say, “This is my life. I want for no other.” Psalm Reading:...
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Stay With Us (Eastertide Week 3)
Somewhere between here an Emmaus is a life of faith that includes our “had hopes” and our desperate prayers of, “God, stay with us.” Thanks to two 17th century Spanish paintings, we find out that we are not alone in this journey. Gospel Reading: Luke 24:13-35 Worship Songs: God With Us Christ be...
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One Way or Another (Eastertide Week 2)
What happens when the ultimate disruption—the Resurrection—forces us to give up the illusion of control, especially over our own spiritual lives and the experiences of others? How do we avoid the notion that faith is a one-size-fits-all experience? What does it mean to be entrusted with a story,...
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Easter Voskhod (Easter Sunday - Eastertide Week 1)
While most of us have never seen someone come back to life, most of us also have never seen an orbital sunrise. But because of the pictures drawn with colored pencils and the stories handed down to us, we get to participate in a reality where things can be new every morning. Gospel Reading -...
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100% Turmoil (Lent Week 6)
Matthew describes Jesus’ entry into Jerusalem as turmoil. How can we pay attention to the tumultuous world around us in the final week of Lent? How can we attend to our own inner turmoil? How can we avoid rushing ahead to the certainty of Resurrection?
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Only Mostly Dead (Lent Week 5)
What if the raising of Lazarus was a communal event not an individual one? How might that help us better comfort ourselves and our neighbors in times of grief?
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The Comment Section (Lent Week 4)
Jesus healing of the man born blind was a miracle. But maybe the more important miracle is when Jesus went out looking for the man after the community had kicked him out of town.
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Changing the Subject (Lent Week 3)
What if Lent is less about 'giving up' minor vices and more about confronting the parts of ourselves we'd rather avoid? How can we opt out of dehumanizing rhetoric and identity politics? How can we quiet our judgmental minds long enough to truly know and see others, especially those we disagree...
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Entering the Night (Lent Week 2)
The season of Lent draws us into the darkness of the unknown, and asks us to move beyond what is familiar and certain. Exploring well-worn promises and questions, we are invited to enter the mysterious frontiers of life anew. What happens when we let go of our expectations and stay in the…
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It's All Wilderness (Lent Week 1)
Join us as we enter the season of Lent asking, “What if life is more about learning to live in the Wilderness rather than escaping it.”
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Family and Community (Baptism Part 3)
Join us as we enter conversations about baptism at Crossings in this three part podcast.
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History, Theology, and Practice (Baptism Part 2)
Join us as we enter conversations about baptism at Crossings in this three part podcast.
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Of Pickles and Baptism - (Baptism Part 1)
Join us as we enter conversations about baptism at Crossings in this three part podcast.
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Attending Transfiguration (Ordinary Time Week 6)
What if Transfiguration Sunday is as much about our own transformation as it is about Jesus’? How do we see ourselves changing? How can we attend to our ever-evolving selves without trying to rush it or force it? What would it mean for us to see our humanity as being brought into God?
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19 Layers of Cheesecake (Ordinary Time Week 5)
Like rings in a tree and onions and ogres and Russian nesting dolls, we as people and we as faith communities carry layers within us. Like the layer Israel built upon return from exile, and the layer Jesus added to the story of God, may we take apart layers of the nesting doll and bless the lives...
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Blessings and Heroics in 2026 (Ordinary Time Week 4)
What are we supposed to be doing with our lives? How can we focus on “everyday heroics” without becoming frozen by the vast brokenness of our world? What does it mean to live into the blessings of a reality that isn't here yet?
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The Shapes of Our Relentless Desire (Ordinary Time Week 2)
The second Sunday after Epiphany invites us to consider what it means to start over and how we might need to, occasionally, look at things anew. How can we honor the past, including the broken parts, and appreciate who we are becoming? How can we be attentive to the particulars so that we can add...
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Poet's Eyes (Ordinary Time Week 1)
How does the season of Ordinary Time and the story of Jesus’ baptism invite us to look at the world differently, through “poet’s eyes?” How might we embrace the ambiguities and confusions of life and still have a clear sense of who we are becoming?
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When Christmas Follows Gently (Christmastide)
On the 11th day of Christmas, we are invited to imagine what is coming to life in and around us in ways that are outside the traditional expectations of how and where we experience God.
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Impossible Things (Advent Week 4)
In “Through the Looking-glass,” the White Queen advises Alice to practice believing six impossible things before breakfast each day. Every year around Christmas, it feels like Christians are asked to do the same thing. Joseph, who we don’t often know what to do with in the story, seemed to have a...
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Joy in a Grain of Rice (Advent Week 3)
Who are we when life doesn't turn out like we thought it would? What if the joy of Advent isn't about magically having our circumstances changed, but about transforming our experiences of the wilderness? Can we stop trying to escape, and start finding a way to notice the strange beauty of our…
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The Process of Peace (Advent Week 2)
What makes for peace in Advent? How can we see conflict as a part of the peace process and not a threat to it? How can we be comfortable with who we are while still embracing the differences in others?
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An Apocalyptic Advent (Advent Week 1)
As we attempt to move from our Revelation study into Advent, we are given some of the most apocalyptic, Revelation-like words Jesus said. What does it mean to make ourselves at home as if the Kingdom of God were a reality here, now, on this earth?
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Time We Did Not Choose
Studying alongside the lectionary means learning a new way of telling time centered on the life of Christ. For the next six months, we will study texts that we did not choose alongside one another and faith communities all over the world. We hope to pay attention to ourselves and one another as...
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Choosing Between Christ and Ceasar (Revelation 22:8-21 )
John’s Revelation encourages the Church to endure and hold fast in a world run by dominating Empires. How do we choose to resist? How can we reveal the arbitrary nature of Empire and its limited power? What kind of Church will we choose to be in this world?
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Crayon Drawings of Heaven (Revelation 21:1-22:7)
We've finally arrived at the final scene of the drama in Revelation. After the destruction and wars, dragons, and chaos, the seas are calm again and John begins drawing a picture of where the whole thing is headed.
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Crossings Knoxville is a faith community in Knoxville, Tennessee that launched in 2007. We exist to help people find their way back to God.
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