St. Luke Medical District: Recent Episodes
Rector, James Madden
An Anglican church plant for the best and the broken. Seeking to bring gospel-centered healing to the Medical District and City of Dallas. St. Luke Medical District is a place where people can meet Jesus, engage in life-giving community, and experience spiritual formation through liturgy. We believe in creating a space where people can have authentic encounters with Christ, discover their gifts and use them for God's glory. Now meeting weekly on Sunday mornings! Join us!
Beginning with Epiphany and Jesus' baptism, St. Luke began a new series looking at the different character attributes of God. In Epiphany, we ask the question, "What is God revealing to us about himself. Surprisingly, in Jesus' baptism we see that God wants us to him as a family man, someone who is part of a loving home. Do we want to be a part of God's home, or the broken home of Herod? These are the options that James puts forward for us to consider from our text.
James unpacks the prophet Malachi, who speaks of the coming of the messenger of the Lord as well as someone who will clean and purify his people. Using references to Shel Silverstein, Calvin and Hobbes, and the science of soap, he covers how the person of God. moves into the messiness of his people to wash and make them clean
James unpacks Zechariah 14 and the prophet's apocalyptic call for a future day of the Lord. Unpacking Zechariah's surreal imagery, James shares an insight from Fleming Rutledge to describe God's activity in Advent: "God is the subject of the verb." Our response is to flee into his valley of refuge, embracing the surreal nature of disorientation, while looking for the light of Christ.
James unpacks Jesus' interactions with Pontius Pilate on Christ the King Sunday. Jesus maintains supernatural poise as he faces the lies, and questioning of his opponents. He points Pilate and us to the TRUTH, as the truth will always point to Jesus and allow for us to see the kingdoms and idolatries that get in the way.
James unpacks how the struggles of continuing to follow Jesus in faith in the book of Hebrews mirrors many questions and struggles that we all have. Using the life and music of Johnny Cash to illustrate, James shows how Jesus is the prophet, priest, and king who is worth faithfully following.
The Bible acknowledges that guilt is a reality for us all, but not an emotion meant to consume our lives. In response to our innate feeling of “I’m not good enough,” God wants to bring healing through the sacrifice of Jesus Christ on our behalf.
James unpacks how baptism a great gift from God to mark us as his own so that we are never alone. We also are grafted into Jesus' crucifixion and resurrection, meaning that all of our suffering works for our good according to God's great purposes in salvation. Baptism is God's best for us!
Using the four lectionary readings from this Sunday, James unpacks how the condition of blindness, in all of its forms, effects our ability to navigate life in the light, or with righteousness. How does Jesus, the true salve and light bringer, play in? Revelation 3 and Laodicia have something for us...
Guest preacher and friend of St. Luke, Fr. Kolby Kerr powerfully preached about the tendency to “run out the clock” in our walks with Jesus after receiving salvation through faith. Drawing on Matthew 21 and Philippians 2, Kolby pointed us to the road of the Christian life, one of faithful diligence and presence on the road to heaven. He helpfully used the “running out the clock” metaphor from a sports team’s tendency to stall once they realize they are ahead, when instead he shows how Jesus calls us to a more baseball-way-of-life, one where we are called to play the game and get all of the outs.
James returns to Romans 15 for a second time to discuss how Jesus' ministry of sacrificial hospitality created a way for both the Jewish and Gentile Communities to come together. Using the paradigm offered by Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy in The Cross of Reality, James aims to point people towards a Jesus-Oriented-Community: Connected to Past, Future, Inward, and Outward Groups
In a world where church buildings come and go, the true essence of the church remains steadfast—it's not about the walls that surround us but the faith that unites us. Drawing from Romans 12, Kimberley explores what it means to be a living, spiritual community, delving into how each one of us plays a vital and unique role in building the church we long to see. Listen and reimagine what it means to be the church: a diverse body of believers united in Christ, living out hospitality, reconciliation, and love.
James intertwines discussions on the spiritual essence of community as depicted in the book of Romans, with historical narratives from 1763 and insights on Benjamin Franklin, alongside the modern dilemmas of social media and urban living's effect on mental health. He aims to show how our propensity towards the idolatry leaves us worse off than it promises, and how the Gospel brings us back.
What are you willing to give up to be a part of a Jesus-following community? Come and hear how the Gentiles and Jews were invited into a new reality together as Jesus' family.
When all of life seems crazy, and our political candidates are under attack, where can we go for clarity and reassurance? We are thankful to have God's word, and namely his righteousness as our standard and prism though which we can live in a changing world. What do Amos, a plumb line, and sycamore figs have in common with Jesus? Listen to find out
As we look into Paul's writings to the early churches, we see calls of generosity that were counter to the cultural standard of the time.
How does the Gospel influence generosity?
What is the call to Christians to be generous?
What does the Bible say about giving and receiving gifts?
Listen for a deeper understanding of how we can participate in the living gospel of generosity.
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As human beings, not only are we capable of a host of distractions at any and all given moments, but we actually want to be distracted. We get hung up on details and particulars that distract us from the fundamental reality of the Gospel of Christ: That Christ died for all, in all of our individual and collective ugliness. When we lose sight of that, our own judgements and evaluations become the basis with which we engage with others. This makes the Ministry of Reconciliation to which we are called impossible. As new creations, it is our task to be moved by the Love of God in Christ Jesus to see the New Creation all around us and within others.
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By nature, we measure growth and success by productivity and output. But to understand the Kingdom of God is to be content with the appearance of unproductive inactivity, with work that is slow, steady, and simple going unnoticed and unappreciated - like the planting of seeds. They grow on their own hidden and unseen in ways that have always been happening. The end goal of all this is not being plucked away, but the redemption, restoration, and completion of all things.
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Authority, Vulnerability, and Authenticity - these are the foundations upon which the apostle Paul established his Christ message to the church in Corinth. Our lives are bombarded by voices with platforms and messages that take advantage of our natural inclination toward Confirmation Bias. We gravitate to what makes us feel good, right, and safe. Paul recognized this in pattern in Corinth, and chose the way of Christ, humility, and simply told the story of the cross through the lens of his own life. Paul encourages the Corinthians to be wary of messages and messengers that elevate position over people, and questioning the integrity and humility of our speakers is our responsibility, not cynicism.
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James shared how the Apostle Paul humbly presented the truths of the Gospel to a community that was tempted by the world. The Light of the Gospel illuminating the mind produces a people who are simultaneously ordinary as jars of clay, yet extremely precious because we are related to and in proximity with the true treasure, Jesus Christ.
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The Who, What, and Why we choose to worship can forms our identity. James points us to consider the concept of a Triune God as the shape of reality formed in dynamic relationship and encourages us to see how we are invited into participation in that flowing movement of Life and Love.
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We invite you outside with us in honor of Pentecost as James invites us into a re-enchanted experience with the God, Creation, and one other by attuning ourselves to the movement of the Holy Spirit.
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In celebration of Ascension Sunday in this season of Eastertide, James walks us through Jesus' returning to the Father and their reuniting. At the moment of farewell, Jesus sends out his followers to continue the work that they can't accomplish without Christ. Jesus does not only commission them, but promises his presence, his Name, and his prayer. In this, the disciples, and now we ourselves, are invited into greater clarity & focus, endurance, and connection as we await God the Father's ringing of the bells for our own reuniting with God.
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Inner dialogues, we all have them. There are all manner of voices contained in our hearts and minds, vying for control and influence. When our hearts accuse us in the presence of God, who knows us in perfect intimacy, what do we tend to do? What can we do? Might there be another way?
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What do we do when we come face to face with the violence within our own hearts, our very shadow-selves? We are prompted to see that there are two main tendencies, to mar and destroy that which holds our blame, or to deny its existence altogether. But James invites us to witness the nature of Sunflowers: they turn themselves to face the Sun in reception and gratitude - this is the contemplative, Christ way forward for the transformation of our collective and individual darkness.
From the accounts of the Apostles, Rector James Madden reminds us that we are not the center of our narratives - no matter the high places or the low points we find ourselves. The resurrection of Christ demands we orient our lives in a new way.
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Continuing in this Easter season, guest preacher Kolby Kerr invites us to not rush past the marks of wound that the resurrected Christ bore. More than that, the memories of desertion and abandonment that the apostle Peter carried into his ministry. Our pasts are not erased, they are redeemed and a central part of our presence and work within the Kingdom of God.
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In this Second Sunday of Eastertide, join us as Kimberley delivers a baptismal homily full of encouragement, challenge, and hope, calling us to remember our baptism.
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In celebration of Easter, Kimberley draws our attention to the impossible and trustworthy nature of the resurrection of Christ Jesus. Our God is in the business of doing the unimaginable, of moving the immovable. What are the unlikely-to-be-moved boulders in your life that you struggle to give to the God who raised Jesus the Christ?
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Human beings, even today in the modern West, have an obsession with royalty. There is something about the gravitas of a king that preoccupies our hearts and our minds. We long for someone to step into authority and begin to set things aright. Palm Sunday marks the Christian celebration of Jesus as King as he processes into Jerusalem before his passion. What kind of king is he? What sort of kingdom does he establish? What does he use his authority to accomplish?
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The story of ancient Israel is one of cyclical disenchantment and re-enchantment. The blessing of covenantal relationship with God that once was a gift would become to them a burden, yet God would remain and renew his promises. God's covenant with God's people is no longer primarily about our public and corporate standing within our communities but rather our internal posture before God and the fundamental reworking of ourselves that God initiates. James encourages us that it is from this point inside is where we now move outward, no longer the other way around. In Christ Jesus, God wants to rewrite our stories, not do away with them, and write something new upon our hearts.
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We mark the fourth week of Lent by continuing to look at the Ten Commandments. Jame's challenges us to receive that the Ten Commandments give being and purpose not only to us as individuals but as a community. Looking specifically at bearing false witness and coveting, we face the ugly truth of what following our lusts and delights produces not only within us, but what it causes to our neighbor. Luckily, James encourages, God is interested in sharing his table with those who betray him.
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When God answers our prayers and we finally find the freedom we want, what happens next? What do we do when we’re finally there? James offers to us that the Ten Commandments provides the guidelines and framework for life after and within freedom. Just like navigators using the stars as an external pattern of orientation of being and purpose, any way of being structured around anything other than the reality of God’s relationship with us will be unstable. James leaves us with challenging question: What is it fundamentally about us that we tend to gravitate back when we are invited into a different reality of peace and joy?
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In marking the second week of Lent, James helps us to focus on the contrast between the Way of Empire and the Way of Christ. The never-ending quest for power by worldly empires, and the empires within our own souls, is marked by the right to assumed authority based on might and to take, take, and take. The result, however, is nothing but anxiety and fear. In the relentless pursuit of power, the Way of Empire proves to be the road to Death. In contrast, the Way of Christ is ultimately about losing, not winning, and relinquishing power, rights, and death - not final death, but the death of all that is already killing us. In this, the Way of Christ is the road to Life. The cross, the Imperial symbol of ultimate power, is taken by Jesus and turned into a token of powerlessness that goes forth to heal the very wounds of power.
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As we enter the season of Lent, we remember that it is a time, like every wilderness narrative in Scripture, by deep and formative change. In these experiences, we can pursue two paths: Our way marked by self-determination and inflaming the ego, or the Way of Christ and humility, justice, and peace. One prepares us for lives of peace, purpose, and significance, while the other leaves others to pay for the price in the wake of our choices. The season of Lent reminds us that the first steps upon this "Way Other Than Our Own" are awareness, confession, and repentance.
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To mark Ash Wednesday, James invites us into a raw and vulnerable experience as we reflect on our shared human reality: we are dust. Yet, in that nature, the Psalmist notes that God knows that our form is dust and still chooses to breathe his Breath and send his Spirit into us. It is in the midst of this awareness of our mortality, frailty, and weakness, marked by the ashes we wear on this day, that we can meditate on the new life that God is forming there in the dirt through Christ Jesus. "There is love in the ruins," Walker Percy. We are thankful for our partners in ministry, Rev. Shanté Buckley and Lift Community Church!
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Was the Transfiguration of Christ before Peter, James, and John only a singular event in history? James points us to the fact that each of us has quiet and dynamic encounters in which a light shines within us and unveils not only our true selves but also the Way of Christ before us. Theses transcendent moments of transfiguration are universal, bodily, and transformational experiences. To round out Epiphany and prepare for the season of Lent, we can look at the Transfiguration of Christ as the light within our hearts that reveals his Way to cause a change of form within ourselves.
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In recognizing World Mission Sunday alongside Epiphany, James invites us to share in a wider perspective. We are not called to simply be solitary and individual thinkers in private faith, but to take our place in the family of Christ around the world and throughout the centuries. More than that, us here in the West are the very "nations," the "ends of the earth," to whom the Gospel of Christ Jesus was brought to by the faithful witness of generations. James encourages the listener with helpful reframing and practical wisdom about how to faithfully live out the Great Commission today.
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To mark the Fourth Week of Epiphany, James teaches us that the knowledge of God's Kingdom reality revealed to us through Christ Jesus is for the purposes of 1) loving God, 2) navigating our own world and reality, 3) not supporting a "you do you" mentality within us, and 4) loving others. James reminds us that power and freedom grow proportionally to our knowledge, but that can often be a dangerous thing to the consciences of others who understand reality differently. Revealed knowledge is not to be used as a tool to cut things into the shapes we want, rather to restore relationships through Grace that honors the faithfulness of others, even when it looks different than ours. By this, our love can be a creative force.
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The idea of Manifestation is sweeping through our younger generations. But trying to satisfy the longing to see real change in life to avoid despair and hopelessness is nothing new. We have been taught that we have to make things happen, pull ourselves up by our bootstraps, or risk being swept up by life. But the reality is this: Jesus calls us, we don't have to call ourselves. We have reason for hope, not because we have attuned our energies towards good things for ourselves, but because there is goodness all around us and we have been called to behold it and take part in it. This is our orientation, our horizon, and our purpose: we get to do and be within an eternal story that is not conditional or dependent upon our ability to actualize it, and we're not alone in it!
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In this the Second Week in the season of Epiphany, Kimberley draws our attention to the call narrative of Philip and Nathaniel in the Gospel according to John. Kimberley highlights the way that Jesus finds Philip, the way that Jesus sees Nathaniel from afar, and the way that Jesus calls them both to invite them into the promise of the reality of the unity between our world and God's kingdom. God came from in the most unexpected fashion to summon the most ordinary people to himself to be his hands and his feet. God calls us, too, in ways that defy all our expectations. All we have to do is be just who we are and receive, just as God sees us, finds us, and calls us.
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The season of Epiphany marks the fulfillment of God's promises. The narrative of Scriptures reveal that God establishes covenantal relationships with his people by being at once Promise-Maker and Promise-Keeper, and in no greater way is this story told than in the baptism of Jesus as found in the Gospel of Mark. James encourages us to pay attention to the unremarkable details of our lives, for that might be exactly where the glory of God is being manifest.
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On this New Years Eve, James asks: As the year closes and a new 2024 dawns, do you know God more, and know about God more, than you did a year ago? Where in your life do you need to know God more? Where do you need to receive Christ as Truth and extend the sweet and costly Grace of Christ? May these Realities be the Lens through which we live and move and have our being this new year.
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This Christmas Eve, James reminds us that the mystery of the Divine Presence is imminent with us in the discomfort of our present situations. We are invited to hold Life, the Divine Source, living and breathing together through all the pain, frustration, and confusion of our existence. This is the Incarnation we celebrate at Christmas, God is with us and has made his home among us, moving into our lives.
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Link: "Honest Advent" by Scott Erickson
This Advent season, we have been focusing our attention on our Psalms readings. Why? The Psalms serve to prompt us to remember both our tears of sorrow and of joy. Most importantly, they remind us of those ultimate moments in our waiting and deepest sorrows when God unexpectedly shakes up the story and suddenly, in the place of grief, is the deepest of joys. Kimberley reminds us that, indeed, this is the meaning of Advent and the Christ-birth.
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What happens when the attachments that define us, and have defined us for generations, are ripped from us and we find ourselves longing for "the good old days?" It's pretty easy to point fingers at a perceived enemy in the name of protecting "when things were better" and say, "There can be no peace between us." The reality of Christ tells us this does not prepare us for his coming. The way of reconciliation, the Way of Christ, is hard-fought in surrender, earth-shaking love, and genuine concern for the welfare of those we are taught to hate.
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What does it really mean to struggle, to experience absence or need? Hunger and waiting is the deep and collective condition of our hearts. When will God deliver us? Can God even do anything about your situation? Is God angry at me? James ushers us into the season of Advent by reminding us that immanence of Christ and his entrance into our darkness and presence among us is our very deliverance. Jesus' light that shines upon our struggle restores, returns, redeems and rehumanizes the dignity of every person.
"The Christ of the Breadlines," Fritz Eichenberg
https://www.reliefjournal.com/blogposting/2015/04/10/fritz-eichenberg
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The tide of the world ebbs and flows in waves of prosperity and woe, and this creates a desperation and a fear in us all. These moments show us what it is we really crave, our deep personalities. The fear of loosing what we deem too important to let go of can lead us to trade our faith and allegiance to Christ Jesus the King for something to placate our anxiety and make us feel "safe." On this Christ the King Sunday, Kimberley challenges us that surrendering to Jesus as Lord gives way to liberty and gratitude, while placing our faith in other figures and systems that promote control leads to deeper fragmentation.
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This week, James charges us to remember not only that it is fundamental to God's character to give good gifts, but that it is our responsibility to give to God as God has given us. Christ invites us to join his great Dance, accepting which empowers us to give great gifts with immediacy, generosity, and freedom.
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With so much to be discouraged about in our time, and with so many things to distract us, how should we respond when Christ gently warns us about the end that is to come? What sort of responsibility does such an awareness bestow upon us? Listen in as James meets us in our common doom and despair and invites us to see Christ there.
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Tune in to St. Luke Medical District from our gathering on All Saints Sunday as James beckons us to remember our baptism and reminds us of the deep realities of immersion into the life, death, and resurrection of Christ.
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Continuing with outdoor services in October, James identifies the last of the identity paradoxes of St. Luke Medical District: Ancient & Contemporary. What does it mean to belong to an ancient tradition while maintaining responsibility to our own present context? Is there a way to live in this tension that honors the nuances of both contexts? The answer might just lie in an age-old horticultural discipline.
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We continue our series on the Church as we move outdoors for the month! Join us as James reflects on the story of Jacob and the nature of the Church as people who can suffer the depths of darkness, experience healing, and walk with a limp as they suffer alongside others.
We apologize for the ambient noise and intermittent sound issues. We are doing our best to figure out how to best produce our services outside!
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Joins us as Kimberley offers a homily at our second annual outdoor Blessing of the Animals service. She invites us to meditate on the profound nature of God's creation and our place in it all.
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For this week's identity paradox for the Church, James explores how the community of Jesus followers has been called to be set apart for righteous living and also to be a celebratory people who enjoy festively and invite generously. What does that paradox look like in practice? Jesus' parable of the Prodigal Son paints a great portrait for us to consider.
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James does a deep dive on the paradoxical call on the church to be active participants in the movement of God in the world while also being passive recipients of God's invitations to grace, transformation, and peace. How can we balance these two parts of the Christian life? How can we be both adventurous and bold while also resting in wait?
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To kick off the Fall season, James begins a sermon series about The Church. Listen as James describes the nature of the people of God as those who are called simultaneously to come together and to go out from one another. James challenges us to embrace this paradox in order to become who we are meant to be.
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Visiting with us from Restoration Church in Richardson, Kolby Kerr addresses what it truly means to "offer ourselves as a living sacrifice." Is it the daily rehearsal of the response to own adequacy or inadequacy? Or could it be God's invitation to participate in the story of the reality of his Kingdom all around us? Do we start with ourselves and proceed to God, or do we begin with God's righteousness and grace and find our true selves in his worship and glorification?
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God often chooses the unremarkable in ways that undermine our expectations. God chose a Peter, a nobody with no pedigree from nowhere important to be the foundation of the community of believers, establishing a bedrock on the Grace of God, the Gift of the Message, and the Response of Faith. What does this mean for the function of the Church?
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Israel's purpose was always to be God's arm of hospitality to the Nations. But they, like us, often put energy and resources into making sure we are clean, good, and acceptable in ways that pushes others away and keeps them on the fringe and the margin. In what ways do we neglect our purposes of hospitality and faith? What do we do when the outsiders look more like God then the people of God do?
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The life of faith is not one of comfort but often discomfort, insecurity, and uncertainty. Why did Jesus send his disciples into challenging situations? How did it shapes their faith in him? How can the rough and confusing experiences on our journey of faith lead us to a deeper understanding of Jesus?
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Jesus didn't use his power to meet his own needs and wants, but rather the needs and wants of the crowds. He also wanted to equip his disciples for participation in his miracles. How can we say "Yes!" to God's invitation so that we can be a part of his next miracle?
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By nature, we are each of us treasure hunters who search for things of great value that shift our priorities and change our narratives. What is it that you seek? What do you dream about? The Kingdom of God is a reality that points to its central voice and ruler, Jesus, who offers citizenship of his domain to us.
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The parable of the wheat and the tares: how does Jesus’ description of the kingdom of God and the presence of evil go together? What do we do when the good and evil get mixed up in and around us? How will it all be made right? These are questions that we look into for guidance from Jesus.
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What significance does being loved by Jesus have? What purpose does that give us? How can our eternal destiny inform a vision for our lives? How can we structure our lives now to achieve that vision and purpose?
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Sometimes we are worn and weary because we take on too much. Most of the time though, we get swallowed up by a fallen world. How do we get swallowed up, and how does the rest of Jesus meet and transform us?
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Following in the way of Christ will cause him to cut apart the hierarchy of loves in our hearts, but will also allow him to piece it back together in their appropriate order.
In the call to discipleship, Jesus offers us a different vision of power. Where our world invites us to shed vulnerability and seize power over others, Jesus invites us into a deeper, fuller kind of authority, rooted in a willingness to enter into suffering for the sake of others.
If you find yourself stuck in your faith journey, it may be that childhood scars are holding you back. Don’t let wounds of the past hold you back from the mind-blowing, truly eternal, truly unconditional love of your Heavenly Father.
On this first Sunday of Ordinary Time, James calls to our attention the insider-outsider narrative in the Gospel of Matthew and how Jesus consistently flips our expectations of who is considered an insider and an outsider to describe the Kingdom of God.
Join us as guest pastor David Roseberry breaks down the fundamental human search for identity and connection and how the Triune God is the foundation of all relationships.
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On this Pentecost Sunday as we worship outside, James walks us through how we relate to God, to ourselves, and to the world in the light of the risen Christ and the descended Spirit.
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On Ascension Sunday, James reminds us that any attempt of ours to make the Kingdom of God what we think it should be is doomed. It's not an ideology. It's not a talking point. It's not an empire. It's a reality and a way of living in and through the risen Christ that is rooted in radical love.
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Belly buttons, camels, and stumps. James teaches from John 15 to remind us what life looks like when we are attached to the vine of Christ.
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Preaching in James' stead, our friend Sam Wheatley reminds us that God wants to dwell with us here and now, and he has a place for us to meet him wherever we go.
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Despite some technology mishaps, James offers us a very comforting and encouraging reminder as well as a direct charge from Psalm 23.
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On this third Sunday of Eastertide, James challenges us to reimagine our own stories in the light of the Gospel of Christ, just as the risen Jesus opened the Scriptures and the Story of Israel to the Emmaus travelers.
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On the second week of the Easter season, James reminds us that in the face of a broken and dark world, we are invited to act as "holy fools" and embrace the gift of life and salvation through the resurrection of Christ.
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Christ is risen, indeed! Celebrate the resurrection of our Lord and King with St. Luke Medical District and a message from James.
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Kimberley walks us gracefully through the celebration and the darkness that is Palm Sunday. Hosanna, save us!
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Just as it is fundamental to our being that we imitate, so do we all serve someone or something. James asks us to consider, who is driving our van? What do we give our time, resources, energy, and being to? Where are we going in our van?
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James reminds us that every facet of human nature is wired for imitation - there is always something or someone we are copying. What does it look like to imitate the person of Christ?
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This week, James reminds us that following the way of Christ towards transformation involves kindness, honesty, and mercy.
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James examines the adventurous life of being in relationship with Christ, with all the ups and downs and stomach-dropping uncertainties and blessings that comes with it.
James leads us through why exactly it is that we need a savior, and why that is so important in the wider universal narrative.
James leads us through a meditation on the significance of Ash Wednesday and the season of Lent.
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Rector James Madden walks us through the story of Jesus' Transfiguration, its significance, and how we can respond to God showing us who he is.
Visiting Rector of Restoration Anglican Church in Richardson, Kolby Kerr redeems and redefines two common and well-known images embedded within Christianity.
In the fifth week of Epiphany, James reminds us about the necessary role that imagination can play in the daily lives of Christians.
In the Fifth Week of Epiphany, James walks with us through what being in covenant relationship with God means for us as we related to one another and to our neighbors.
James walks us through the third week of Epiphany, centering on what it means to follow Jesus into the the Kingdom that he inaugurated.
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Rector James journeys with us through the second week of Epiphany, highlighting the significance of what it is that we truly seek.
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On this Epiphany Sunday, Assistant Rector Kimberley walks us through the significance of Epiphany in the life of the individual Christian and the universal Church.
Rector James Madden leads SLMD into our first Christmas worship time together as a church plant.
Father James explores what it means to be obedient to our charge to love in the midst of waiting, confusion, and pain.
Father (newly ordained!) James leads us into the advent season examining what it is to wait, why it is we wait, and how we are to wait for that which we orient ourselves around.
SLMD is joined by our Bishop Todd Hunter from the Diocese of the Church for the Sake of Others (https://c4so.org/) as a number of congregants go through confirmation.
James finishes our time in Galatians teaching from Paul's warning and call to action to watch out for abusive leaders in the Church and to embrace and celebrate the cross of Christ.
James leads SLMD through the end of our study in Galatians - examining what it looks like to take the path of gentleness when it comes to our relationships, and what that may cost us.
James leads SLMD through the fifth chapter of Galatians, focusing on the concept of freedom in Christ and how that allows us to produce "good Fruit."
What have we been rescued from? What have we been rescued for? James explores the concepts of adoption and heirship in the fourth chapter of Galatians.
James continues through Paul's letter to the Galatian church, reflecting on the relationship between the Law and grace, and what that means for each of us in a practical way.
Kimberley teaches from the third chapter of Galatians, focusing on the centrality of the gospel of justification by faith for the people of God.
James teaches from the second chapter of Paul's letter to the Galatians about what faith and justification mean as identity markers.
From the second chapter of Paul's letter to the Galatians, James teaches about the sufficiency of the Gospel of Christ for fellowship and hospitality.