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The work of the people. Our weekly rhythm of being together as a larger community to worship and confess, to engage scripture and prayer, to celebrate eucharist, and to be sent back into the city with a benediction each and every week.
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Sunday Jul 23, 2017
Sunday Jul 23, 2017
Jason Minnix reflects on how Jesus listens to our lives with empathy and how we receive insights about ourselves through others [Mark 10:17-22].
Reflection:
How can I bring my giving out of places of guilt, shame and fear into the light of compassion?
What does compassion look like for the feelings and needs of someone I’ve been struggling with?
Resources:
Video: The Big Sick
Book: The Way to Love by Anthony De Mello
MWG: Homily Discussion Guide
The post Receiving Others appeared first on Vox Veniae.
Sunday Jul 16, 2017
Sunday Jul 16, 2017
Sarah Bingaman talks about how identifying emotions and needs can reveal our hearts [Matthew 5:1-4].
Reflection
What am I feeling or needing right now?
How can I practice emotionally responding to my own feelings and the feelings of others this week?
The post Living from the Heart appeared first on Vox Veniae.
Monday Jul 10, 2017
Monday Jul 10, 2017
Gideon Tsang reflects on the burdens we’re carrying and how are we invited to live in a lighter way [Matthew 11:28-29].
Reflection:
What does it look like to receive God’s gentleness this week?
How can your inherent worthiness free you from the burden of needing to be greater than you already are?
Resources:
Book: The Way to Love by Anthony De Mello
Prayer: Prayer of Reflection Script
MWG: Homily Discussion Guide
The post Light Living appeared first on Vox Veniae.
Sunday Jul 02, 2017
Sunday Jul 02, 2017
Weylin Lee talks about the paradoxical freedom that God invites us to experience [Romans 6:12-18].
Reflection:
What areas of our lives might need to experience death or for us to let go of?
How might we practice discernment through a lens of grace?
Who or what are we imitating?
Resources:
Podcast: This American Life: Alain de Botton
Podcast: Fresh Air: Jay-Z
The post Freedom appeared first on Vox Veniae.
Sunday Jun 25, 2017
Sunday Jun 25, 2017
Jason Minnix talks about our desires and examines the question that Jesus asked his disciples [John 1:35-42].
Reflection:
What am I being invited to let go of and return to a relationship of enjoying?
What desires am I being invited to carry with compassion this week?
What does it mean that God is delighting in me today, as I am?
Resources:
Exercise: Nonviolent Communication Handout
The post What Do You Want? appeared first on Vox Veniae.
Sunday Jun 18, 2017
Sunday Jun 18, 2017
Matt Inman reflects on who we direct our compassion towards and how we sometimes get in the way of living it out [Matthew 10:5-16].
Reflection
Where do you over-complicate your life and love by carrying around extra “equipment”?
What is one small, humble act that would exercise your compassion and put you in the position of being a good guest?
Resources:
Podcast: Inefficiency
The post Being Good Guests appeared first on Vox Veniae.
Monday Jun 12, 2017
Monday Jun 12, 2017
Gena Minnix talks about what it means to belong and the vision Jesus left us with for Christian community [Matthew 28:16-20].
Reflection:
Who among us needs to hear the message, “You belong”?
How do I enjoy being playful with God and others?
Resources:
Article: Don’t Think You Have a Yoga Body?
Video: Whose Line is It Anyway Improv
Video: Don’t Think Twice – The Art of Improv
The post Belonging appeared first on Vox Veniae.
Sunday Jun 04, 2017
Sunday Jun 04, 2017
Gideon Tsang talks about how God’s creative energy, the Holy Spirit, moves us towards transcendence in how we understand God and others [Acts 2:17-21].
Reflection:
How can we reflect on what the experiences of our lives mean?
In what ways can our use of language be a means to unite rather than divide people?
Resources:
Book: The Circle by Dave Eggers
Video: Darjeeling Limited: How Brothers Communicate
Book: Nonviolent Communication by Marshall Rosenberg
The post Pentecost Sunday appeared first on Vox Veniae.
Sunday May 28, 2017
Sunday May 28, 2017
Tim Brosnan talks about what we can learn from trees and what it means to humbly stand firm [1 Peter 5:6-11].
Reflection:
In what ways can we choose to live closer to the humus until the canopy opens up?
How can we cultivate a deeper understanding of God and ourselves through Nature?
Resources:
Podcast: On Being-Richard Rohr
Poem: “When I am Among the Trees” by Mary Oliver
The post Gospel According to Trees appeared first on Vox Veniae.
Sunday May 21, 2017
Sunday May 21, 2017
Gideon Tsang talks about the way we interact with community and how we might do it in a way that creates gratitude and joy [Philippians 1:3-9].
Reflection:
What would it look like to participate in sharing your beauty in community?
Who’s a safe person you can share a face plant story with this week?
Resources:
Video: Kids Kissing
Podcast: On Being: Carlo Rovelli
Book: Community and Growth by Jean Vanier
Video: Andrew Bird
Video: Beirut
Podcast: This American Life: Grand Gestures
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Sunday May 14, 2017
Sunday May 14, 2017
Kelly Cutbirth reflects on the questions we ask in vulnerable places and how God responds to them [John 14:1-14].
Reflection
What are the questions, at the surface or buried a little deeper, that are most troubling in my relationship with God today?
What does it look like to rest in God’s love this morning, in the midst of unknowns and unanswered questions?
The post Troubling Questions appeared first on Vox Veniae.
Sunday May 07, 2017
Sunday May 07, 2017
Matt Inman speaks about the rest and care that God is guiding us to rather than the versions we try to set up for ourselves [Psalm 23].
Reflection:
In what ways do you seek rest that ends up obscuring your view of God and others?
When was the last time you felt led into rest and comfort that grounded you to God, yourself and others?
Resources:
Video: Green Pastures
Video: Stars and Light Pollution
The post Shepherd Sunday appeared first on Vox Veniae.
Sunday Apr 30, 2017
Sunday Apr 30, 2017
Weylin Lee talks about why we’re invited to live as foreigners and how it captures the new way of life Jesus offers us. [1 Peter 1:17-23].
Reflection:
How can we put aside our entitlement to create space for a posture of humility?
How can we move towards sincere love that doesn’t carry expectations?
The post Live as Foreigners appeared first on Vox Veniae.
Sunday Apr 23, 2017
Sunday Apr 23, 2017
Jason Minnix talks about being immersed into change as we hear the stories of Grace Minnix, Noah Tsang, Zachary Lee and Madeline Strickland [Matthew 3:1-6,13-17].
Reflection:
How does it feel to be chosen and marked by love, the delight of God’s life?
What if it’s true that God accepts every part of us without hesitation?
The post Waters of Baptism appeared first on Vox Veniae.
Tuesday Apr 18, 2017
Tuesday Apr 18, 2017
As we celebrate Easter, Gideon Tsang reflects on what it feel like to survive death and to be birthed into a new way of life and living [Jeremiah 31:1-6].
Reflection:
What grace can you find in the desert seasons of your life?
How can God’s unchanging love revise your life story?
Resources:
Video: Angel’s Landing Hike
Video: James Turrell- The Way of Color
Video: James Turrell- Second Meeting
The post Easter: Surviving Death appeared first on Vox Veniae.
Sunday Apr 09, 2017
Sunday Apr 09, 2017
Jason Minnix reflects on our expectations as we near the end of the Lenten season [Matthew 21:1-11].
Reflection:
What pain and darkness is God starting to untether in me this week?
How can I relax into the grace that God actually likes me?
Resources:
Video: On Love with Alain De Botton
The post Lent: Expectations… appeared first on Vox Veniae.
Sunday Apr 02, 2017
Sunday Apr 02, 2017
Gena Minnix talks about how we reflect on and respond to waiting in this season of Lent [Psalm 130:1-8].
Reflection:
How might sharing my feelings, needs, and wants with God help me while I’m waiting?
How might God use the ‘waiting’ parts of my life to write an exceptionally good story?
Resources:
Podcast: Missing Richard Simmons
Practices:
Voicing to God our feelings and needs.
Breath prayer – “(inhale)Jesus Christ, Son of God, (exhale)have mercy on me a sinner.”
God, how might you use this in your story?
The post Lent: Waiting For Resolution appeared first on Vox Veniae.
Sunday Mar 19, 2017
Sunday Mar 19, 2017
John Chandler reflects on what will come of our season of lent where we open ourselves up to brokenness, grief and suffering [Romans 5:1-11].
Reflection
What suffering already might be present for you to take hold of?
How have you not allowed hope to birth out of your suffering?
The post Lent: Suffering appeared first on Vox Veniae.
Sunday Mar 12, 2017
Sunday Mar 12, 2017
Gideon Tsang talks about how we can learn to see the kingdom of God here and now and how we can see as God sees [John 3:1-17].
Reflection:
What does it look like to create space in this lent season?
How can you live out of your worthiness this week?
The post Lent: Learning to See appeared first on Vox Veniae.
Sunday Mar 05, 2017
Sunday Mar 05, 2017
Jason Minnix explores how to respond to violence with loving kindness, both towards ourselves and difficult people in our lives and world [Matthew 5:38-48].
Reflection:
What in my life needs kindness today?
How can I extend compassion to the people who are difficult for me to love?
Resources:
Book: Rosenberg, Marshall. “Nonviolent Communication.”
The post Kindness to the Other appeared first on Vox Veniae.