In today's world it is hard to find a person who isn't anxious and in a hurry. Most of us have to steal away for a few days to experience something akin to peacefulness, only to return to the rush of life as usual. Mark's Gospel offers us a vision of Jesus that is at once both deeply urgent about the coming Kingdom of God and at the same time frustratingly calm about its imminent arrival. Perhaps we can learn a thing or two by paying attention to how He holds that tension.

June 6, 10:30AM

New Meaning of Family
Mark 3:20-35
(Jesus and Beelzebul & The True Kindred)

June 20, 10:30AM

Swamped and Still
Mark 4:35-41
(Jesus Stills the Storm)

June 27, 10:30AM

Taking the Time to Kneel
Mark 5:21-43
(A Girl Restored to Life & a Woman Healed)

July 4, 10:30AM

Forsaking Honor for Repentance
Mark 6:1-13
(The Rejection of Jesus & the Mission of the 12)

July 11, 10:30AM

False Absolution - Shifting the Blame
Mark 6:14-29
(The Death of John the Baptizer)

July 18, 10:30AM

The Prideful Temptation of Busyness
Mark 6:30-34,53-56
(Feeding and Healing the Masses)

July 25, 10:30AM

Unhurried Urgency -
Grounded Amidst Overwhelm
Mark 7:24-30
(The Syrophoenician Woman's Faith)

Much has been said about the imagery in this brief, dense letter towards the end of the New Testament. The oft-quoted phrase "God is Love" is found uniquely in 1 John, yet much of the letter is difficult to make sense of due to seeming contradictions and improbable binaries. We will be spending two months drinking deeply from the author's complex symbols and teachings, working to liberate the text from our own binary thinking and asking 1 John to call us into greater faithfulness.

April 11, 10:30AM 

The Opposite of Sin Is Repentance, Not Goodness

1 John 1:1-10

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April 18, 10:30AM 

Abiding In the Light

1 John 2:1-11

April 25, 10:30AM 

Trusting Our Experiences

1 John 2:12-23

May 2, 10:30AM

Nothing to Prove

1 John 2:24-3:10

May 9, 10:30AM

Reassuring Our Hearts
1 John 3:11-24

May 16, 10:30AM

Knowing God/Knowing Love
1 John 4:1-14

May 23, 10:30AM

Speaking From Experience
1 John 4:15-5:10

May 30, 10:30AM

Keeping in Touch with Eternal Vitality
1 John 5:11-21

April 4, 10:30AM | Easter Sunday

Resurrection Somehow: Clinging to Jesus

Mark 16:1-8