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Paul's Short Letters: 2 Thessalonians
Paul's Short Letters: 1 Thessalonians
Paul's Short Letters: Colossians
Paul's Short Letters: Philippians
Paul's Short Letters: Ephesians
Paul's Short Letters: Galatians
The weight of small things. Paul’s short letters intro and vision for the summer
Holy Levity
Another Advocate
Baptism, a reminder and an invitation.
Piece of the Peace
Celebration and Challenge of the Resurrected Christ
Sown in Tears (Good Friday)
Palm Sunday
Come and See
Garden Confessions
Lectio Prayer with Isaiah 58 // Matthew 5 & Prayer Promoting Pictures
Nevertheless
Why House Church & Gathering?
Is Jesus the One We Expected?
Christmas Eve 2025
Advent 2025: God Moves into the Neighborhood - Love: Saying Yes in the Midst of the Mess
Advent 2025: God Moves into the Neighborhood - Peace
Advent 2025: God Moves Into the Neighborhood - Hope
Christ the King Sunday
Luke 17:11-19
God@Work - Dave and Marsha Edwards
Luke 15:1-10
Luke 13:10-17
Luke 12:49-56
Watch and Pray
You Can't Take it With You
Teach Us to Pray
Listening to Scripture and Your Life
The Slap Heard ‘Round the World: Experiencing the Parable of the Good Samaritan for the First Time… Again
Sent with Joy and Hospitality
Sent to Represent
What do you want for your birthday?
Psalm 23: The Shepherd, Companion, and Host
Resurrection Season: Get the Hooks Out
Easter: The Tomb is Empty and So Are Our Excuses
Palm Sunday: The Obedient King
Expectation, Grace, and Manure - Luke 13:1-9
Jesus' Wilderness Win - Luke 4:1-13
Deeper Waters - Luke 5:1-11
The Same Spirit
But Wait...There's More
Christmas Eve
Advent: Full Contrast - Love and Hate
Advent: Full Contrast - Joy and Sorrow
Advent: Full Contrast - Peace and Anxiety
Advent: Full Contrast - Hope and Despair
Undefeatable Glory
Riding Tricycles with Jesus
Zombies, Fear, and Freedom
The Good Life: The End and the Beginning
The Good Life: The Narrow Way into Wide Open Spaces
The Good Life: Bold Prayers to a Good God
The Good Life: Planks & Specks
The Good Life: Consider and Seek
The Good Life: Generously Loved into a Generous Life
The Good Life: Abiding and Fasting
The Good Life: Praying in Secret
The Good Life: Giving & Hiding
The Good Life: From Enemies to Brothers and Sisters
The Good Life: Love, Neighbor, Enemy, Weather, & Perfection
The Good Life: Integrity Over Oaths
The Good Life: Hard Heart to Hesed Heart
The Good Life: Lustful Glare to Loving Gaze
The Good Life for the Murdered and the Murderers
Joy of the Empty Tomb vs Doubt in the Empty Room
The Good Life: Robed in Surpassing Righteousness
The Good Life: It’s Not About You, thoughts on Salt and Light
The Good Life: The Blessed Life
The Good Life
Vision Sunday 2024
Renew 15th Anniversary Gathering
Christmas Eve
Advent Joy
Advent Peace
Advent Hope
God’s faithfulness, forgiveness, and punishment
Hesed
The Good News of God's Long Nose
God's Compassion and Grace for You
Character of God
Generation Transfer
Life in the Spirit: Stories of Transformation
Life in the Spirit: Intimacy and Agency
Life in the Spirit: The Face of Christ
Life in the Spirit: Shallow and Deep Water
Life in the Spirit: When the Spirit Says No
Life in the Spirit: River of Life
Life in the Spirit: Pentecost
Life in the Spirit: Volume 1
Rhythms of Grace: Resting and Righteousness
Rhythms of Grace: Playing and Praying
Rhythms of Grace: Fasting and Feasting
Missional Identity Vol 2: Called to Bless
Missional Identity Vol 1: Blessed to be a Blessing
The Generous Community
The Right Bus Driver
Excel Still More
Scripture Engagement Through Art
Journaling Scripture
Praying Scripture
Abide
Discipleship & Racial Healing
Just as Jesus Commanded: Be Perfect
Just as Jesus Commanded: Love Your Neighbor, Go and Do Likewise
Just as Jesus Commanded: Repent, Seek, Love
Vision Sunday
James 3: The Tongue and the Heart
James: Practical Faith for Everyday Life - Chapter 1: Hearing and Doing
Love Reoriented
Peace Reoriented
Joy Reoriented
Hope Reoriented
POEM: A lament for those left
Walls, Wounds, and Wants
Hearts Back in Rhythm: The Church as a Worshipping Community
Being Church Together: Get the Hell Out
Being Church Together: Necks, Hips, Apostles, Prophets, & More
Being Church Together: Dwelling in the Word of Christ
Being Church Together: One Anothering
Being Church Together: God's Extravagant Vision Rooted in Love
Being Church Together: Getting Back to the Basics
Green Lights, Clean Pants, & Persisting in Prayer
When Do You Feel Alive?
Lentacost 4: Resurrection Grows, Realising Blessings, Out of Fear
Lentacost 3: Meek and Pure
Lentacost 2: The Mourning and Peacemaking Children of God
Lentacost 1: Blessed by the King for the Kingdom
Lentacost Week 1 recap
Ruth: Chapter 4
Ruth: Chapter 3
Ruth: Chapter 2
Ruth: Chapter 1
Wilderness Vision
Teaching for January 10
Hope in Spite of
Advent: Love
Advent: Joy
Advent: Peace
Advent: Hope
JoyStrength of Security: Presence, Identity, and the Goodness of God
November Race Discussion and Panel with Sean and Christa Smith
JoyStrength of Forgiveness
JoyStrength in the Face of Fear & Anxiety
JoyStrength from the Throne of Grace
The InBetween: Episode 23
JoyStrength of Lament
JoyStrength: Joy of Unity
October 11 Town Hall
JoyStrength: The Joy of Being Known in Community
JoyStrength of Being Known: Practicing Vulnerability in the face of Shame
The InBetween: Episode 22
Joining Jesus, the Wounded Healer
The InBetween: Episode 21
Reflections and Perceptions
John 20-21: Renew Faith
August 16 Town Hall
John 18-19
John 17 - Swept Up
John 16 - Flags Fly Forever
Fear - The Key to Freedom
John 15 - Being God's Friend
John 14 - Engaged!
John 13 - Power in Serving
A Poured Out King
John 11 - Getting Rid of the Grave Clothes
Eye Opener
John 7 - Living Water
Memorial and Lament
While It Was Still Dark
5th Sunday Reflections
Psalm 103: Dandelions and Crowns
The InBetween: Episode 20
In the Beginning: John and Genesis
Kaleidoscope View: An Intro to John's Gospel
The Brave Space of Prophecy
The Brave Space of Empathy
Vision Sunday 2020
The InBetween: Episode 19
Advent - Joy
Advent - Peace
The InBetween: Episode 18
Advent - Hope
The InBetween: Episode 17
The Spirit and the Bride Say, "Come!"
The Mission of God, Empowered by the Spirit
A WITH Faith
Sustainable Faith: Formation and Anchors
The InBetween: Episode 16
Presence
Vision Sunday: Colossians, corporate and individual identity, and the greatest ecological disaster in history
Lawn Mowers and Bony Fingers: Resolute Faith in the Waiting Place
The InBetween: Episode 15
The InBetween: Episode 14
Transforming Relationships - Colossians 3
Since, Therefore, and Underwear
Can sin contaminate the Good News of hope?
Intro to Colossians
Pentecost
The InBetween: Episode 13
Resurrection Story: when joy gets in the way
The InBetween: Episode 12
Grace Secured
The InBetween: Episode 11
Living the Dream
Jesus the King No One Expected
Discipleship Vol 5: Discipleship as Mission
The InBetween: Episode 10
Discipleship Vol 4: Buckets and the Holy Spirit
The InBetween: Episode 9
Discipleship Vol 3: Kingdoms, Community, Christ
The InBetween: Episode 8
Discipleship Vol 2: Discipleship 101 and the Formed Life
Discipleship Vol 1: Beginning with Forgiveness
The InBetween: Episode 7
Vision Sunday
Blue Christmas
The InBetween: Episode 6
The InBetween: Episode 5
Advent: Love
Advent: Joy
The InBetween: Episode 4
Advent: Peace
Advent: Hope
Advent Pregame
The InBetween: Episode 3
The InBetween: Episode 2
Real Good News: A Funeral, Goldfish, St. Francis, Barstools, Wawa, and a Eunuch
Real Good News: A Family Formed by Grace
The InBetween: Episode 1
Real Good News: When Jesus Meets Our Shame
Real Good News: Encountering Jesus
Real Good News: Invitation to (Re)Discover
Introducing The InBetween
Vision Sunday
Abide
Ben Pitzen's Ordination Service
Like a Broken Record
Disoriented by the Spirit
Wholly, Holy, Holey
A Conversation about the Spirit
Drawing in the Dirt: Lessons on Radical Grace and the Imago Dei
Loving Your Neighbor: The Good News Gets Better
Table to 10K: Running Shoes Required - Stories from the Road to Emmaus
Love the Lord Your God with All Your Heart
Love the Lord Your God with All Your Strength
Love the Lord Your God with All Your Soul
Love the Lord Your God with All Your Mind
Vision Sunday
J.R.'s Charge to Renew
Christmas Eve
Blue Christmas
Participating in the Kingdom While We Anticipate the Second Advent
Awaiting the King
Home
The Rescuer
Christ the King is On the Move
Stewarding This Kairos Moment
God is Closer Than You Think: A Framework for the Church
1 John: The Litmus Test of the Christian Life
1 John: Where is the Love?
1 John: Identity Markers and the Identity Giver
1 John: The Tattoo On Our Forehead
1 John: Embodying the Story - A Lesson in Identity Formation from a Five Year Old Pirate
1 John: Learning to See and Hear Again
An Attitude of Generosity: Participating with God in the Miracle
Are We Owners or Stewards?
Giving as an Act of Trust
Tetelestai
The Hilarity of Financial Promiscuity
Seeing Money as Relationship
Community: Part 4 - Forgiveness
Community: Part 3 - Speaking the Truth in Love: Addressing Conflict in Community
Community: Part 2 - Romans 16:1-16
Community: Part 1 - Mark 2:1-12
Blessed to Bring Blessing: Generous Living
Hungering for God: Learning From Lobsters, Rhinos and the Moravians
WITH: God with the Hurting (Advent Week 3)
WITH: God with the Hopeless (Advent Week 1)
Jonah Part 3 - The Exceedingly Generous God - J.R. Briggs
Jonah Part 2 - The Scandalously Gracious God - J.R. Briggs
Jonah Part 1 - The Painstakingly Patient God - J.R. Briggs
Renew Vision Casting Sunday - Reorienting the Economy of Our Hearts - Ephesians 3:1-21 - J.R. Briggs
Renew Family Meeting: Women in Church Leadership
God is an Absent Father (and other misconceptions) - Part 5 - J.R. Briggs
God is a Republican/Democrat (and other misconceptions) - Part 4 - Doug Moister
God is a Spiritual Santa Claus (and other misconceptions) - Part 3 - Kent Gerhart
God is an Angry Tyrant (and other misconceptions) - Part 2 - Doug Moister
God is a Good Luck Charm (and other misconceptions) - Part 1 - J.R. Briggs
The Courage to See: Racism and the Good News - Drew Jackson
Acts and the Holy Spirit 16 - The End or The Beginning
Acts and the Holy Spirit 15 - Paul on His Way to Rome: A First-Person Account - Acts 22-26 - J.R. Briggs
The Pentecost Church Planting Initiative: Our Vision to Birth More Churches - J.R. Briggs
Acts and the Holy Spirit 14 - Following the Spirit - Acts 20-21 - Doug Moister
Acts at the Holy Spirit 13 - The Riot at Ephesus - Acts 19 - J.R. Briggs
Easter Sunday - Our High Priest is Sitting Down - J.R. Briggs
Acts and the Holy Spirit 12 - The Incarnational Life: Where the Gospel and Culture Intersect - Acts 17:16-34 - J.R. Briggs
Acts and the Holy Spirit 11 - Repurposed - Acts 16 - Ben Pitzen
Acts and the Holy Spirit 10 - Making Room: The Scandal of Grace - Acts 15:1-21 - Doug Moister
By Faith in 2015... - J.R. Briggs
Vision Sunday - J.R. Briggs
Christmas Eve - Ben Pitzen
How God Meets Us in Our Disgrace - J.R. Briggs
The Well - Dan Emr
Sabbatical Reflections - J.R. Briggs