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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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Tuesday Jan 25, 2022
Tuesday Jan 25, 2022
Kelly Cutbirth reflects on how we might facilitate meditation of the heart especially in the challenging circumstances we face [Psalm 19].
Reflection
- What kind of song is your heart singing this morning?
- In what area of your life do you feel the need to hide parts of yourself? How does it feel to imagine yourself being fully known in that space and with God?
Practice
- Listen to a song or meditate with music.
- Write a psalm and send it to a trusted friend.
Resources
Tuesday Jan 18, 2022
Tuesday Jan 18, 2022
Weylin Lee reflects on how the gifts of the Spirit invite us to a practice and experience of unity with each other [1 Corinthians 12:1-11].
Reflection:
- How would a lens of revelation impact how you see the gifts in others?
- What is an outlet where your gifts might contribute to the common good?
- Even in this challenging season, what might collective participation look like for you?
Practice:
- Examine and adjust our lens. How might we be looking through a lens of rivalry? How might we adjust towards a lens of revelation? List out how we experience God through the gifts of others.
- Consider an outlet for your gifts. What are some outlets where your gifts might contribute to the common good?
Resources
- Film: Encanto
Monday Jan 10, 2022
Monday Jan 10, 2022
Gena St. David reflects on some helpful images of what God's comfort might look like when we're walking through fear [Isaiah 43:1-3].
Reflection:
- How does your body respond to imagining God speaking your name?
- What fear feels most overwhelming right now?
- What superficiality in life might be starting to burn away?
Resources:
- Film: Death to 2021
- Film: 14 Peaks
Tuesday Jan 04, 2022
Tuesday Jan 04, 2022
As we begin a new year, Christopher Mack reflects on how wisdom and word are embodied with us through Christ and how that opens us up to grace [John 1:10-18].
Reflection
- How are you feeling at the start of this new year?
- How does the image of God moving into our messy and complex lives open us up to grace?
Sunday Dec 26, 2021
Sunday Dec 26, 2021
Weylin Lee reflects on what we are putting on ourselves that centers us around and embodies the love of God through the contemplative practice of Lectio Divina [Colossians 3:12-17].
Reflection:
- How might you clothe yourself with more compassion and kindness in this coming year?
- What would it look like for you to practice more gratitude in the coming year?
Resources:
Tuesday Dec 21, 2021
Tuesday Dec 21, 2021
As we continue in the season of Advent, Gena St. David reflects on how experiencing embodied peace more often may lead us to sacrifice fewer things that are alive both inside and outside ourselves [Hebrews 10:5-10].
Reflection:
- What forms of sacrifice still tempt you today?
- Where are you learning to distinguish between the artificial and the real?
- How are you being “made holy” through embodied trust?
Practice:
- Discernment. Distinguish between what’s real and artificial through Scripture, listening prayer, our own bodies.
Wednesday Dec 15, 2021
Wednesday Dec 15, 2021
As we continue in the season of Advent, Weylin Lee reflects on what practices might invite us to embody joy as we continue to navigate distress and disruption both in and outside our lives [Philippians 4:4-7].
Reflection
- Who are those in our lives that we might need to embody gentleness towards?
- How might we hold the tension of practicing gratitude in the midst of difficult circumstances?
Practice
- Joy. How might our reflection on the full story and life of Christ become a source of joy in our lives?
- Gentleness. How might we imagine a posture of empowered gentleness would look like with those who are a source of distress in our lives?
- Gratitude. What experiences and people can we express gratitude for in the past year as we have navigated a challenging season?
Tuesday Dec 07, 2021
Tuesday Dec 07, 2021
As we continue in the season of Advent, David Wallace reflects on how we might be driven by obligation and what our invitation is to shed the false skin that covers our true selves [Luke 3:7-18].
Reflection
- Reflect on the difference you feel when you say or do something out of obligation instead of a willingness in your heart?
- What "programs for happiness" are you attached to? How do they keep you covered with a skin that is not your true self?
Practice
- Reflect on what programs of happiness you might be attached to. (a. safety and security; b. affection, esteem, and approval; c. power and control)
Wednesday Dec 01, 2021
Wednesday Dec 01, 2021
As we enter the season of Advent, Gena St. David reflects on what is helpful for us to keep in mind and remember when things are being shaken loose inside us and how we can help one another hold onto hope [Luke 21:25-36].
Reflection
- What is being shaken loose inside you this advent season?
- How are you experiencing Christ in the presence of loved ones?
- After the shaking process, what are you hoping will remain?
Practice
- Reflect on your experience of being shaken. What is being shaken loose inside you? What is being removed because it no longer serves us? What do we imagine will remain which cannot be shaken?
Wednesday Nov 17, 2021
Wednesday Nov 17, 2021
Sarah Berson reflects on the story of Hannah and her experience through the movements of I am nothing, I am something, and I am anything [1 Samuel 1:4-20].
Reflection:
- What is your suffering stripping from you? What does your nothingness feel like?
- What belief grounds you in “I am something?” What space is created with your belief that I am something?
Resources:
Wednesday Nov 10, 2021
Wednesday Nov 10, 2021
Weylin Lee reflects on how we are invited to confront the different forms of oppression that Jesus warns about and how some may even be expressed by our own community [Mark 12:38-44].
Reflection:
- What are the ways we can be consumed with ourselves?
- How might we be able to lay down power in exchange for mutuality?
- Who are the vulnerable that we need to draw attention to and advocate for?
Practice:
- Identify our expression of narcissism. What are the ways that we can be consumed with ourselves? What are the ways we might embody the humility of Christ that doesn't carry entitlement?
- Releasing power for mutuality. What do we do with the power and influence that we might have in our own circles and systems? What would it look like for us to lay down our power and engage in mutuality?
Resources:
Tuesday Nov 02, 2021
Tuesday Nov 02, 2021
Christopher Mack reflects on what it means to no longer see ourselves and others as monsters and enemies and find ourselves on the border of more fully entering into and being transformed by God’s love [Ruth 1 & Mark 12].
Reflection:
- What haunted ways are you tempted to view yourself or a challenging situation in your life?
- How does being “not far” from God’s Reign of Love invite you to see yourself or situation differently as we come to the table?
Resources:
- Liturgy Interview: Christopher Mack
Tuesday Oct 26, 2021
Tuesday Oct 26, 2021
David Wallace reflects on our practice of prayer and our invitation to contemplative prayer [Psalm 34:1-8].
Reflection
- How might you see prayer as a relationship with God?
- What specific areas of life require you to seek refuge in God?
- Why does silent prayer seem inviting or fearful to you?
Resources
- Vox Workshop: Introduction to Centering Prayer
Tuesday Oct 19, 2021
Tuesday Oct 19, 2021
Nic Acosta reflects on pain and trauma and how we’re invited to explore and engage the tension and mystery that comes with it [Job 38].
Reflection:
- How can we bring our full selves to the table, both our joy and our pain, and still seek connection?
- What does it look like to lean into the mystery of Christ, leading us on our bright days and in our darkest hours?
Resources:
- Video: Doctor Distracts Baby from Shots
- Book: Hillbilly Elegy (JD Vance)
- Podcast: The Bruenigs
Wednesday Oct 13, 2021
Wednesday Oct 13, 2021
Gena St. David reflects on the center of the Christ story and what it means to be saved. What are we saved from? How are we saved? What are we saved for? [Mark 10:17-31]
Reflection
- How does your body respond to the image of nonviolent forgiveness in Jesus?
- What or who was Jesus trusting, and how did that trust enable him to respond nonviolently?
- What might become possible for us if we spent more time in embodied trust?
Tuesday Oct 05, 2021
Tuesday Oct 05, 2021
Weylin Lee reflects on how we are invited to center ourselves and our community around Christ in this next season together and we navigate reconnection and transition [Hebrews 1:1-4; 2:5-12].
Reflection:
- How can we center ourselves around the embodiment of Jesus' life and teachings?
- Where can we let go of power and privilege to embrace downward mobility?
- Whom are the suffering that we can be in solidarity with?
Practice:
- Reflect on who we center ourselves around. Who are the people we have intentionally or unintentionally chosen to center ourselves around? How can Vox be centered around embodying the life and teachings of Jesus?
- Downward mobility. Let go of power and privilege that you normally lean on. Experience a humiliation for your ego
Resources:
Tuesday Sep 28, 2021
Tuesday Sep 28, 2021
Virginia Cumberbatch reflects on what it looks like to praise in the midst of the difficult season we have all been enduring [Psalm 124].
Reflection:
- How are you giving yourself permission to share and express gratitude for God's preservation, presence and protection?
- How will you express praise this week/in this season?
Resources
Tuesday Sep 21, 2021
Tuesday Sep 21, 2021
David Wallace reflects on how our need for belonging can lead us to experiencing being othered and how Jesus invites us to see ourselves and others [Mark 9:38-50].
Reflection:
- Reflect on a time when you felt "othered" and a time when you "othered" someone else. What feelings come to the surface for each?
- Recall a moment that contributed to masking over the child-like nature of your True Self? How might you see your innocence and release its burden on you?
Tuesday Sep 14, 2021
Tuesday Sep 14, 2021
Gena St David reflects on where we might find comfort in the Christ story when we suffer rejection for living what God invites us into [Mark 8:31-37].
Reflection
- Which relationships help us endure rejection?
- Where might the Spirit be inviting us to risk rejection and wage “good conflict”?
- How might the Christ story comfort us when we suffer rejection?
Practice
- Name your five people – who helps us endure rejection?
- Name your loving reason – why is rejection sometimes worth it?
- Name your hope – what about the Christ story comforts us when we suffer rejection?
Tuesday Sep 07, 2021
Tuesday Sep 07, 2021
Weylin Lee reflects on our invitation to practice ordinary faith that's grounded in mercy as we push against celebrity culture [James 2:1-17].
Reflection:
- What does it mean for us to push against celebrity culture in our community?
- How can we make space to reflect on and receive mercy in our lives?
- How are we integrating the teachings and life of Jesus as an expression of our faith?
Practice:
- Examine our culture. Reflect on the culture of our Vox community and who it is that we welcome and engage. How have we shown preference for certain types of people at the expense of others?
- Reflect on God’s mercy. Make space to reflect on the ways we have recognized and received God's mercy toward us. How might we need to unpack and process the barriers that keep us from fully receiving mercy in our lives?
Resources:
- Podcast: The Rise and Fall of Mars Hill