Episodes

Sunday Apr 30, 2023
April 30, 2023: Having It All For Nothing - Michael Hidalgo
Sunday Apr 30, 2023
Sunday Apr 30, 2023
We invest, save, work, achieve, accumulate, gain for what? Jesus asks, “What good is all of this if you end up forfeiting your soul? This powerful question pits the external against the internal. So often we take our cues from our society, family, culture and surroundings so that we might catch a glimpse of what the “good life” is, and in doing so miss what is really stirring within.
Perhaps, in order to not forfeit our souls, we need to learn to access and listen to them. Perhaps be must understand this thing within us is God given and wishes to speak to us. It is what God has wired within us from the very beginning and wishes for us to discover.

Sunday Apr 23, 2023
April 23, 2023: Fake News or Breaking News? - Michelle Cazas
Sunday Apr 23, 2023
Sunday Apr 23, 2023
In Luke 9:18-20, Jesus asks a question of his disciples regarding his identity. They repeat what Luke wrote earlier in chapter 9: Elijah or John the Baptist or perhaps another prophet. But Jesus is not content with just knowing what others are saying, he wants to know what they would say.

Sunday Apr 16, 2023
April 16, 2023: You Can Do This - Michael Hidalgo
Sunday Apr 16, 2023
Sunday Apr 16, 2023
There is a key line in the story of Jesus feeding 5,000+ people. “You give them something to eat.” Of course, the dumbfounded disciples point out the obvious. They barely have enough for five people, let alone 5,000. This is of no consequence to Jesus, he asks them to bring what they have - five loaves and two fish. And then, the disciples give the people something to eat.
There are several miracles unfolding in this story, including the way the food was distributed - by the hands of the disciples. How often do we think we don’t have enough? How often do we think we are not enough? Maybe, we only need to bring what we do have to Jesus, so that, like the disciples, we may find we have everything we need to serve others.

Sunday Apr 09, 2023
April 9, 2023: What Things? - Michael Hidalgo
Sunday Apr 09, 2023
Sunday Apr 09, 2023
In Luke 24, the two disciples on the road have their eyes shut and do not know Jesus. Their eyes are only opened when Jesus breaks the bread, symbolizing his broken body. This is how we learn to see Jesus in our sorrow; by his sharing his brokenness with us.

Sunday Apr 02, 2023
April 2, 2023: The Visible God - Michael Hidalgo
Sunday Apr 02, 2023
Sunday Apr 02, 2023
Our theology of separation is not only between us and the earth, but also between us and God. We often imagine God somewhere out there and we are down here. Our task, if we choose to accept it, is to say or do or believe any number of things to make it to where God is. This story has maintained traction in the human psyche for centuries. But it is not a story found in the Sacred Text. The story told in the Hebrew and Christian Scriptures is about a God who “is all and is in all.” A God who is not only with us, but One who holds “all things together.” A God who is here.
God’s plan is for us to be God’s presence, light, life and life right here, right now. What might it say to us as human beings that we are invited to be that in our world? While it may sound above us, it also has the power to tell us how God feels about us as humans. Perhaps we have set the bar too low, and, in doing so, believe that Jesus did it all and we can simply enjoy the ride. Should we think this way we will forget we are not passengers; we are crew. Each of us has a part to play in being the presence of God in our world.

Sunday Mar 26, 2023
March 26, 2023: Saved From What? - Michael Hidalgo
Sunday Mar 26, 2023
Sunday Mar 26, 2023
This week, as Jesus foreshadows his own death in speaking about the shepherd who lays down his life for his flock, we examine the stories we've been told about Jesus' death, and what it means for creation.

Monday Mar 20, 2023
March 19, 2023: Off the Mark - Michael Hidalgo
Monday Mar 20, 2023
Monday Mar 20, 2023
This week we look at Genesis 3. We reflect on the glory of being human, and how sin is something that scars the beauty with which we are born. In this then, our contrition is admitting we have stooped below the identity we’ve been given and trusting that God is one who freely restores our beauty.

Sunday Mar 12, 2023
March 12, 2023: Can These Bones Live - Jonathan Merritt
Sunday Mar 12, 2023
Sunday Mar 12, 2023
In one of the stranger stories of the prophets, God calls Ezekiel to prophecy to a valley of dry bones. What follows is an illustration to us of what God can do with the situations in our lives that appear to be nothing more than a graveyard.

Thursday Mar 09, 2023
March 5, 2023: Dirt - Michael Hidalgo
Thursday Mar 09, 2023
Thursday Mar 09, 2023
A curious fact about the Hebrew Scriptures is that there are two separate creation narratives. While the first offers no detail about how humans were fashioned by God, the second gives great detail – saying we are “formed from the dust of the ground.” Literally, we come from dirt. Recent science has told us we come from the dust of the stars, which may sound a little better. Both, however, suggest the same thing to us: we are a part of the universe in which we live all the way down to the atomic level.

Sunday Feb 26, 2023
February 26, 2023: A Picture of the Divine - Dave Neuhausel
Sunday Feb 26, 2023
Sunday Feb 26, 2023
As we begin the season of Lent, we will be spending the next six weeks digging into what it means to embrace The Glory of Being Human. This week, we read in Genesis about the inherent royalty of every human being, and see a unique opportunity to offer this dignity to a family currently living a very dehumanizing existence.