Branches. Sunday.

Our lent series The Saints of Unbelief opens up with a talk about the ocean, a song called Big Blue and an invitation to skip belief or unbelief and instead arrive at presence.

We end our four part series with a BANG! Apart from some tech issues, this podcast includes many voices, old and young, chatting about generosity and belonging.

Week three of me, us, we and all is all about the we. What happens when the floodgates open and we learn of all the different perspectives and ideas of the world? New opportunity, but also the potential for cynicism. All this and more in this weeks sermon.

Week two in our series Me, Us, We and All is all about the us and ideological thought. We hear from a variety of voices about what ideology and group think has led to in their lives.

Week on in our series on the me, the us, the we and the all starts with… the me. We also explore the series from a 30,000 foot view. What do we place emphasis and focus on and how does that influence our interaction with the Divine? That's what this is about.

The conclusion of our series The Door.

Brandon shares a bit of his journey in walking through a door of deconstruction that led to a more open room housing a new way to look at the gospel.

Mike shares a bit on how the senses are doors to divine encounter. And since the service was highly interactive adds some context for those who weren't in attendance.

Mike explains how the artist Robert Irwin, John 10 / Ezekiel 34 and Rumi can join forces to help us think about the reality beyond the boundary. And also what healthy boundaries can look like.

Mike opens up the new series called The Door with sharing some of the thoughts he's had on where truth resides and how Christianity may have flipped Jesus's perspective on such things. Hint - there's a story in everything. Especially stories outside the door.

Mike talks about how the message should take precedent over the medium.

Janeen talks about joy and wraps up a beautiful personal story with a reveal of the meaning to the candle used to represent it being a different color than the rest.

Mike talks about how you can't talk about peace, so he leads a meditation instead.

Mike talks about how advent didn't simply just happen, but is also happening. And how it's from the deepest dark that hope emerges. Because hope is a process rather than emotion.

Kent concludes The Christ Politic series by talking about Jesus' message of recreating our systems.

Mike talks about have v. get. And then moves into a space of discussing the reality of christ through different images.

Jennifer tells a powerful story about her and her family and also touches on what it means to love.

We kick off our series on politics with some moving thoughts from our panel.

There is the physical and then there's the spiritual. Mike talks about our love of one and overlooking of the other. Song referred to Is The Trapeze Swinger by Gregory Alan Isakov, you can find a video of it on Youtube.

Janeen challenges the notion that darkness is a negative.