In this sermon, Pastor T. C. teaches on an important part of being family: differentiation. If we are properly differentiated we can easily fall into indifference or enmeshment. And our differences are important—without them we could not be united in one Body.
Pastor T. C. continues the Roots teaching series, “The Church as Forged Family” with a message on Psalm 68.4-6 which praises God for being a “father to the fatherless, a defender of widows” and for “setting the lonely in families.” This is a theme that is at the heart of what it means to be…
In this sermon, Pastor T. C. kicks off a new teaching series called “The Church as Forged Family.” We’ll look at what a strange story in the Gospel has to show us about the kind of movement Jesus began.
In the Gospel according to Luke, Jesus is led by the Spirit into the wilderness. There he confronts the devil and resists three temptations. These three temptations aren’t just instructive for us personally, they also describe perennial temptations the church faces in relationship to society. They are: 1. Empire Economics; 2. Idolatrous Nationalism; and 3.…
“Church” might be the subject that evokes the most emotions for those “deconstructing/reconstructing.” Church is where the proverbial rubber meets the road when it comes to our faith. It’s also where flawed human beings steward the sacred mysteries of the faith. Church is the space where God’s Spirit inhabits our relationships in an unique way,…