Episodes
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Doubting Together
The world is filled with possibilities that we have yet to consider. Doubts can either push us towards opening our mind towards what is possible or they shackle us to the status quo. Jesus opens our minds. He invites us to see into the beyond, doubting together what we see, inviting us together...
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Faith After Doubt
We’re told that doubts are bad, that they destroy our faith, that they push us away from God, and leave us feeling empty and alone. But what if doubts are actually good? What if doubts actually press us closer to God? What if this journey, if taken together, can actually lead us into beautiful,...
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This is for you. . . Easter Sunday
The beloved community was forged in a crucible of fear. It began with tears, locked doors, and doubt. And yet Jesus emerged from the grave, revealing a new world of hope and possibility in front of us. The resurrection changes everything, and together we help each other see a new possibility just...
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The Body Speaks - Eunice Lin
This week Eunice invites us to take a look at John 12 and the triumphal entry. Jesus calls us to follow him, which goes beyond just listening to what he says, but also doing what he does.
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Enough is Enough by Hannah Seppanen
Too many times over the course of our nearly three year existence as a church, we have been called together in unity and in love to denounce hatred and an insidious form of white supremacy that is present and active within our culture and given safe harbor within white evangelicalism. Enough is...
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53. The Light Is Still Winning
This is our 53rd week a part. 53rd week since we have met together in person. 53 weeks. It’s a lot to take in, a lot to realize and recognize, a milestone that feels like a weight of grief and pain that we’d just rather ignore than truly understand. There is so much that has happened in this…
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What Will You Gain?
How many times have you risked it all only to see it blow up in your face? How many times have you taken a huge leap, hoping and trusting that the person on the other side was going to catch you like they said they would, only to find yourself falling flat on your face? Were they worth it? What…
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Trials, Troubles, Tribulations
We’ve each found ourselves in the proverbial wilderness before: a season and place of trials, troubles, tribulations. We often cry out into the seeming void, “Where is my rescue?” The season of Lent is a season marked by the wilderness, of intentionally placing ourselves in that space—because…
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Listen to Him
Are you listening? What do you hear? So often we spend our time talking and talking, creating more of a monologue with God, with Jesus than actually participating in the act of listening. What does listening have to do with transformation and change? How does listening well create new worlds and...
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I Know Who You Are!
What are you doing with your life? What are the actions and ways of being that define who you are? Abraham Joshua Heschel writes, “Action is truth.” The actions that you engage in reveal the truth of what you truly believe down to your inner core. What truth(s) are you revealing with your life?...
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What Will You Do With Your Dash?
The moments of our life are filled with ups and downs, lefts and rights, circles and standing still. Life is is fraught with moments of decision both big and small. These moments are not only demanding but they determine the life we live. What will you do with your dash, the collection of moments...
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Is It True?
It’s okay to be skeptical. It’s okay to find yourself filled with questions as you explore the mystery, waiting and hoping for the truth to be revealed. It’s a longing curiosity, a perpetual inquisitiveness that always centers around the question: Is it true? This is the journey of faith that we...
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Reckless.
It’s a new year and nothing has changed. We sit reaping the consequences of what has been sown into the fabric of our lives and our society for generations. This story is not new, but there is an overwhelming love that has come to light the way through and illuminate our path forward. Text: Mark...
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Advent 2020: A Weary World Rejoices - Hope Has a Name
What do you hope for? What sits at the core of your heart? What do you hope for? Finding hope in the midst of the darkness is hard. Finding hope in the midst of our despair is seemingly impossible. Yet, here we stand at the precipice of hope and hope, has a name. Text: Luke 1.26-38
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ADVENT 2020: A Weary World Rejoices - Cry Hope
It’s been a year. And in the midst of the turmoil, the strife, the ups and downs, we are weary. We cry out for rescue, and we anticipate the moment of the coming King. Our Lord and our Saviour. In Jesus’ birth we see a God who put on flesh, a God who stepped down out of heaven to join us in this...
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We Need A New Church
The ways of Jesus drive us to care for one another, especially those in need, consistently and without fail. There are seasons and times where each of us falters, where each of us is in need of care, and it is in those moments that we must rally around those in need, those in pain, those who are...
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A Painful Hope
The gospel is not about you, it’s about us. The story of the early church was about a ragtag group of people coming together, formed in the ways of Jesus to revolutionize the world with this understanding that the kingdom of God was near and that it was for all. They lived this and expressed this...
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The Anti-Reductionistic Gospel, or How The Gospel is Bigger Than You Think
We sure do like to simplify things, don’t we? However, sometimes we go too far and in our reduction, we’re left with an ineffective mess. We’ve done this with the Gospel… What does it look like to step into the fullness of the Gospel, a holistic gospel that can actually make a difference—thy...
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From Isolation to Community - Part 3
Community is not just about us, here inside this organization, this building, this system. Community is about how we function together on the outside. And as a church specifically, it is about how we work to bring a holistic restoration to the world around us. The early church, at the outset of...
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From Isolation to Community - Part 2
Community is about more than just physical presence, it is about the joining together of heart, soul, mind, and strength in pursuit of Jesus and his ways. There is a beloved-ness that comes from this unity that forms a people, that shapes a people, that pushes one another together in mystical…
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From Isolation to Community - Part 1
God is at work all around us, making paths of reconciliation possible for us to walk into with one another, with ourselves, with him. And He’s asking us to be his ambassadors. Ambassadors of reconciliation, to help renew and restore all things through Jesus. In this time of COVID, God is still...
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Chasers of the Light - Part 3
Together, we participate in a worldwide movement of love, of grace, of peace. And through prayer, together we enter into the communal story of God’s redemptive work in and through history. Prayer orients our lives, together around what God is doing and how he is restoring creation back to…
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Chasers of the Light - Part 2
Do you want to see the world changed? Do you want to see ‘thy kingdom come, thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven’ in our day? Then we must pause and pray. Prayer connects us with the activity of God. Prayer opens our eyes and our ears to the world around us in a different way, a way that...
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Chasers of the Light - Part 1
Uncertainty and fear mixed with possibility and hope; our emotional and mental state is at a fragile place and once again we are being asked to be patient. To wait. To adapt and change. The exhaustion and fatigue from this is palpable and the weight can be unbearable. How can we even begin the...
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Live Dangerously
We are a sent people. A people who have been sent into the world to make a difference. “GO,” Jesus commands us with the very first word of the Great Commission. We have been commissioned, by Jesus , to go into the world to make a difference, to spread the revolutionary Gospel of love and of…
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The Art of Activism
The church is an incubator of revolutionaries, and it is time for us to recover that as our moniker and motto. “Arise O sleeper, wake up from the dead!” Is the charge the church is given by Paul. The focus of the church is not on the church. Rather, the work of the church, the work of the people…
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Living Intentionally
Where we go, we go together. The ups and downs, the back and forth, the sudden stops amidst the restarts, the reigning uncertainty of this season we’re facing requires adaptability. And as such, we cannot simply coast through the remainder of this uncertain reality. It is time for us as a church…
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The Art of Loving
The tension that we carry with us every day is our separateness from one another. One of our deepest needs, at the core of our being, is to overcome this separateness and leave behind the prison of our aloneness. This is easier said than done. It requires mutual submission and mutual…
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Living From Your Authentic Self
My, what beautiful battlefields you are. The push and the pull, the back and forth we experience in the struggle of identity, to live from and grow into our own authentic self, this is the great struggle of being. Our struggle for identity and authenticity, the comparison games we play, and our...
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Live the Mystery
We are caught up in this great mystery, you and I. We are surrounded by this reality, this hope that we cannot quite grasp, that we cannot quite fully understand but we know in the depths of our being is true. The mystery of Christ permeates every pore of our existence and of this world, but…
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Try This At Home w/ Isaias Gabriel
So many of us are overwhelmed in this season. We’re facing waves of uncertainty, anxiety, sadness, boredom, anger, fear... this is a season fraught with turmoil. It’s in these times of upheaval that we need more prayer, not less; more spiritual practice, not less; more contemplation, not less, so...
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Try This At Home w/ Justin Fung
So many of us are overwhelmed in this season. We’re facing waves of uncertainty, anxiety, sadness, boredom, anger, fear... this is a season fraught with turmoil. It’s in these times of upheaval that we need more prayer, not less; more spiritual practice, not less; more contemplation, not less, so...
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Try This At Home w/ Lisa Ishihara
So many of us are overwhelmed in this season. We’re facing waves of uncertainty, anxiety, sadness, boredom, anger, fear... this is a season fraught with turmoil. It’s in these times of upheaval that we need more prayer, not less; more spiritual practice, not less; more contemplation, not less, so...
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Try This At Home w/Jay Kim
So many of us are overwhelmed in this season. We’re facing waves of uncertainty, anxiety, sadness, boredom, anger, fear... this is a season fraught with turmoil. It’s in these times of upheaval that we need more prayer, not less; more spiritual practice, not less; more contemplation, not less, so...
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Try This At Home w/ Casey Tygrett
So many of us are overwhelmed in this season. We’re facing waves of uncertainty, anxiety, sadness, boredom, anger, fear... this is a season fraught with turmoil. It’s in these times of upheaval that we need more prayer, not less; more spiritual practice, not less; more contemplation, not less, so...
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Resurrection
Empty. We’ve all done it. We’ve allJust say “put it on United’s tab!” ourselves running on empty, nearing burnout and exhaustion. And during this season of COVID, it’s a lot easier to find ourselves in this space... but what if there was a different way of seeing the word “empty” and how it…
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Life Wins.
Life wins. But only if we step into the tomb and confront the death that surrounds us, the death that we have become accustomed and numb to. Life wins. But only if we speak up, stand up, and fight to create the change in the systems and structures that we are all complicit in maintaining. Life...
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Karmic Vision vs. Graceful Vision
Why are the miracles of giving sight to the blind always the most controversial of Jesus’ miracles? Why is doing good for the sake of doing good, even when it falls outside of the boundaries of social norms, always stirring up trouble? There are signs of life all around us waiting to emerge,...
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Jesus, Defying Gravity
Walking on water is a good parlor trick, in fact it’s really more David Blaine-esque, but how does walking on the water bring life? What exactly does this signify and how does it reveal a new creation waiting to burst forth? The fifth miracle that John uses to explain what is on the horizon, the...
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Jesus, Think Different
The possibilities for what can be done are endless, we simply have to think differently about what we have. The fourth miracle, the fourth sign of life exposes us to the reality that we too are a part of the miracle. Jesus doesn’t do this alone. Despite how much we cannot see the possibilities,...
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Jesus on the Spot
Now is the right time to do what is right. Often times we wait for the perfect moment, or the perfect opportunity—a pandemic— to step up and make a difference in the life of others. However, Jesus shows us otherwise. Now is always the right time to do what is right. Now is always the right time…
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Surprised by Jesus
Even when you’re not looking, Jesus is still at work creating and breathing new life all around us. The second miracle in John happened when no one was looking. It was only after the fact that they truly saw the new life, the miracle that burst forth. Sometimes it takes a bit of hindsight to see...
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Jesus is a Party Animal
This is for everyone. We often think of Jesus’ miracles as healing the sick, giving sight to the blind, or helping the lame to walk again. However his first miracle was for everyone, it was a great feast, a wedding banquet that didn’t end. There are 8 miracles in the book of John, 8 events that...
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Always. With you. Always.
How does the resurrection speak into our current reality? What does resurrection have to do with our current situation? Quarantine is a difficult space, and as we continue to walk down this road, it can be hard to want to actually celebrate. But there’s something in the story of the resurrection...
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With You.
It’s hard to hold to the reality that God is with us always, caring for us, leading us, gently, and lovingly if he doesn’t actually like us. The 23rd Psalm shows us a different type of God, a God who is present with us in the ups and downs of life, who desires to show us the beauty of life amidst...
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I Feel So Seen
God sees you. All of you. He sees your grit, the rough edges, the not-ready-for-prime-time parts of your being. He sees your stuff...and He still likes you, still wants to be with you, still enjoys your presence. You are seen. You are wanted. And God wants to be in your presence.
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Breathe... Let’s See How Inventive We Can Be
Breathe... Let’s See How Inventive We Can Be
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God Believes in You
We talk so much about the importance of believing in God, that God is good, that God loves us, that God really likes us and wants to be with us and these are important and beautiful truths to wrestle with and hold dear. But what if the converse is also true. What if God believes in us, even more…
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The Mysterious You
Augustine remarked, “I am a mystery unto myself!” It can be a frustrating moment to recognize and realize that you don’t quite know yourself, or—even more painfully—to have the mask of the false self ripped from your face. No matter how frustrating or painful this experience can be, it can also…
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The Grass IS Greener
We all have a tendency to compare ourselves to others. We tend to think that if only we were someone else—better looking, better educated, better moneyed—we would be happier. All we really need to do is be “other” than who we truly are. This is the great comparison trap—the great trap of the...
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