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This week, we continue our post-Easter sermon series, exploring what it means to live as Resurrection People. In a world that tries to shape us by fear, how might we be re-formed by love? 

This week, we launch our post-Easter sermon series, exploring what it means to live as Resurrection People. In a world that tries to shape us by fear, how might we be challenged to embody living hope? 

Happy Easter! This week, Pastor Joe reminds us that Easter is a call to resistance against empire. He challenges us to remember that resurrection is not only something we celebrate, but a way of becoming the people God calls us to be!

This week, Pastor Joe continues to focus on resistance as a theme for Lent as we journey with Jesus into Jerusalem on what is known as Palm Sunday. He challenges us to take a side: to either align with power and empire or to follow Christ into a new way of love, justice, and communal courage. 

This week, we continue our journey through Lent as Resistance and how we might resist death. Resurrection is not only about what happens later. It is what happens whenever life breaks through now. And if resurrection is happening now, then we can no longer accept what diminishes life as inevitable.

This week, we continue our journey through Lent as Resistance and how we can resist blame. We named how Lent invites us to notice how quickly we explain suffering by assigning fault, and how we can choose to live a different way by looking for the work of God in places we might otherwise dismiss.

This week, we welcomed Tricia Hansen to continue sharing through our theme, Lent as Resistance, and how we can resist division. She challenged us to receive this encounter with the woman at the well so that we might know the presence of Christ, that we would look to be rooted in Christ, and that we might be empowered in our rootedness to put ourselves in the places where the gospel message can transform us and bridges that which feels impossible!

This week, we continue through our theme, Lent as Resistance, by exploring how Lent challenges us to resist certainty. How might we release control and live differently into God's preferred future? 

This week, we launched our Lent Series looking at Lent as Resistance by exploring how we resist empire. How might God be affirming and re-affirming our inherent Belovedness and inviting us to resist empire that tries to take that away? 

This past Sunday, we heard from a member of our church, Angela Molloy, a doctoral candidate in the joint Iliff School of Theology/Denver University program and the Disability Ministries Committee Chair for the Greater Northwest Conference of the United Methodist Church who challenged us to identify God’s agapētos (beloveds) today who the Divine is begging us to listen to, including our siblings of color, Palestinians in Gaza, Disabled and Autistic beloveds, immigrant siblings, God's Queer and Trans beloveds, unhoused neighbors, and more. 

This week, Pastor Joe concludes our series on Transformation turning to Transformed Conditions. After Jesus shares the Beatitudes, he continues by declaring the gathered to be the salt and light. How might we live into that identity so that our very presence can disrupt the world's systems built on fear and dehumanization? Please note: Due to technical difficulties, Pastor Joe's usual greeting is not included in this episode. The episode picks up from this week's scripture reading.

This week, we continue our series on Transformation turning to Transformed Relationships. When Jesus shares the Beatitudes, he makes a declaration describing the kind of community that emerges when people are re-centered around God instead of power, instead of ego, and instead of fear. In what ways might God be inviting us to live into Transformed Relationships for the sake of the world? 

This week, we launch a new series focusing on our stated goals: Transformed People, Transformed Relationships, Transformed Conditions. How might God be inviting us into personal transformation so that we can move towards God's preferred future? 

This week, we wrap up our sermon series called Gifts from Jesus, exploring how Jesus invites us into curiosity as a way of being so that we might let go of certainty and control, and instead lean into God's preferred future together. 

This week, we continue our sermon series called Gifts from Jesus, exploring how Jesus first embedded himself in the community before the launch of his community. How do we turn to each other and lean into shared life as we name one another as Beloved in a world that tries to push us apart?