Sermons – Roots Covenant Church: Recent Episodes
Roots Covenant church
In this sermon, Pastor T. C. explores the problematic concept of “missions” and reframes it as God’s dream for the world to restore Shalom. God tells Israel to “seek the peace of the city” in Jeremiah 29—and that city was Babylon. What if the mission Jesus sends his disciples on was never about “conversion” but about declaring and demonstrating the Kingdom of God? What the mission Jesus sends his disciples on was always about sharing God’s peace?
In this message, Pastor Osheta teaches on what Moravian history has to teach us about unity. We are united in our picture of God in Christ; united in our commitments to remembering our journey of faith, to being curious about the ‘other’, and to coming together around the Lord’s Table.
In this message, Pastor Osheta preaches on the “Journey of Faith” from the story of Jesus calming the storm.
In this message, Pastor T. C. homes in on another area of overlap between Roots and the Moravian Church: a Jesus-centered reading of the Bible.
In this sermon, Pastor T. C. teaches on the kind of community God is forming in Christ—a community of misfits. Jesus didn’t gather the best and brightest, he gathered the overlooked and underestimated. Jesus did this to demonstrate the nearness of God’s Kingdom to all, not just the religious elite. In fact, God’s election has always been this way. Israel was not chosen because it was great in size or particularly devout. No, God’s choosing is always for God’s glory, not ours. That’s why Pastor T. C. translates First Corinthians 1.26–31 this way:
Brothers and sisters, think of what you were when you were called. Not many of you were wise by human standards; not many were influential; not many were of noble birth. But God chose the foolish ones of the world to shame the wise; God chose the weak ones of the world to shame the strong. God chose the lowly ones of this world and the despised ones—and the ones who are nobodies—to shut the mouths of the ones who think they’re somebodies, so that no one may boast before him. It is because of him that you are in Christ Jesus, who has become for us wisdom from God—that is, our righteousness, holiness and redemption. Therefore, as it is written: ‘Let the one who boasts boast in the Lord.’ ”
The Moravian tradition includes a theological innovation that facilitates the unity with diversity that Christ’s misfit community requires. For centuries, Moravians have been guided by these words:
In essentials, unity. In non-essentials, liberty. In all things, love.”
In this message, Pastor T. C. outlines what are “essentials” for Moravians, and what are not. This is vitally important for cultivating a community that prioritizes unity with diversity.
In this message, Pastor T. C. approaches the second way to be Christian (Be a Good Neighbor) from the standpoint of engaging with politics. To be a good neighbor, we must care about the policies that affect our neighbor’s lives and the collective well-being of society. This is what it means to seek the shalom…
In this sermon, Pastor Osheta helps us think about the Resurrection Rhythm of Hospitality that the early church practiced and how it applies to us today.
In this message, Pastor T. C. explores the first “Rhythm of Resurrection” from Acts 2: “They devoted themselves to the apostles’ teaching.” Acknowledging this passage’s potential to cause discomfort for those of us who have experienced spiritual abuse, this rhythm is principally about centering our lives around the subject of the apostles’ teaching: Jesus, and…
In this second message of the “Easter People” series (which is about practicing rhythms of resurrection), Pastor Osheta builds upon the introductory message delivered in person on Easter Sunday, by introducing the primary mode through which we practice rhythms of resurrection: Journey Groups.
In this message, Pastor T. C. reflects upon 1 John 1.8-9 and Dr. Howard Thurman’s devotional on these verses in “40-Day Journey with Howard Thurman.” Pastor T. C. challenges the sin-as-law-breaking ‘mental model’ and contrasts it with sin-as-virus and forgiveness-as-healing.
In the wrap-up message in the “Zip Code” series, Pastor T. C. explores Dr. Howard Thurman’s concept of “The Sound of the Genuine” in light of the beginning of the Lenten season.
In this message Pastor T. C. explores the way we locate ourselves ethnically, racially, and relative to others in society. In Acts 21, Paul attempts to navigate what Dr. Willie James Jennings calls the “diaspora anxiety” of the Jerusalem elders. But it fails spectacularly. We need a better way.
In this message, Pastor T. C. continues in the “Zip Code” series by exploring the concept of “Faith Stream Awareness.” Recognizing the streams/traditions/denominations that have formed us and their relationship to other branches in the Christian family tree.
Pastor T. C. kicks off a new teaching series called “Zip Code: Homing in on Who We Are to Know Where We’re Going.” This message explores a passage from Paul’s letter to the Colossian church about finding identity in Christ. Identity sets a trajectory that leads us to our destiny.
The season of Christmastide is giving way to Epiphany, when the days lengthen because the Light is breaking in. In this message, Pastor T. C. draws upon the light/darkness motif in the prologue of John’s gospel to point to the ways the Light of Christ is breaking into the darkness of our world.
In this message, Pastor T. C. explores two of the four “throne names” from Isaiah 9 and their relationship to the strength of vulnerability and God’s reign of justice and righteousness.
In this sermon, Pastor Osheta explores the first of four titles for God’s anointed king in Isaiah 9, “Wonderful Counselor.”
In this message, Pastor T. C. confronts an important relational dynamic that affects forging family: privilege. Pastor T. C. draws from Jesus’s teachings and from the letters of the apostle Paul, as well as pointing to a new resource on privilege by Dominique Gilliard entitled, Subversive Witness.
Pastor T. C. continues the teaching series “The Church as Forged Family” with a message about how embodied practices forge family. Before we think of ourselves as family, and before we call ourselves family, we have to participate in family-forging practices.
In this sermon, Pastor Osheta relates the description of the early church to her own experiences of inclusion and belonging in the church as a family.
In this message, Pastor T. C. outlines Jesus’s framework for transforming conflict through reconciliation from Matthew 18.
In this sermon, Pastor T. C. teaches on an important part of being family: differentiation. If we are properly differentiated we can easily fall into indifference or enmeshment. And our differences are important—without them we could not be united in one Body.
Pastor T. C. continues the Roots teaching series, “The Church as Forged Family” with a message on Psalm 68.4-6 which praises God for being a “father to the fatherless, a defender of widows” and for “setting the lonely in families.” This is a theme that is at the heart of what it means to be…
In this sermon, Pastor T. C. kicks off a new teaching series called “The Church as Forged Family.” We’ll look at what a strange story in the Gospel has to show us about the kind of movement Jesus began.
In this sermon, Pastor Osheta helps us take another look at the story of Ruth, not as a rom-com love story between Ruth and Boaz, but as a story about ‘found family’ between Ruth and her mother-in-law, Naomi.
In this sermon, Pastor T. C. enlists the help of bestselling author, Malcolm Gladwell, to take another look at this very familiar story. Rather than seeing David as the archetype of an underdog who miraculously defeats Goliath who is the archetype of an indomitable foe, what if we saw clues in the text itself which…
In this sermon, Emily Morrison, reintroduces us to the story of Jesus & Zacchaeus. Seeing it again with grown-up eyes, there are several aspects of this story we may missed as kids.
In this sermon, Pastor Osheta uses the exodus story to talk about our own personal journeys of deconstruction and reconstruction.
This is the third sermon in the “Campfire” series. In this message, Pastor T. C. shows how the story of Joshua & Jericho isn’t about a bloodthirsty tribal deity who wipes out other ethnic groups. No! It’s the story of God’s people rejecting God’s nonviolent and gradual plan of integration, while also taking upon Godself…
In the first story of the Campfire series, Pastor T. C. walks through Jonah with grown-up eyes. Rather than being about the disobedience of a particular prophet long ago, Jonah is a satirical story that teaches the people of God about God’s character, particularly as it relates to God’s mercy towards people caught up in…
In this message, Pastor T. C. explores three principles for reading the Bible as grown-ups: Reading the Bible 1. Holistically; 2. Ethically; 3. Christ-centered.
In this message, Pastor Osheta introduces us to an aspect of her approach to antiracism. She focuses on our shared belovedness while not compromising on boldly calling out the lie of White Supremacy. She calls this Antiracist Peacemaking.
In this message, Pastor T. C. kicks off the “Campfire” teaching series on Pentecost Sunday using Acts 2 as a framework. The three themes from the Text which will frame the series are Gather, Center, and Wonder. These are important themes to reflect on as we navigate what it means to return to some semblance…
In this message, Pastor T. C. teaches on the difference between land and place. Attaching sacred meaning to the land can point us to God or it can become a satanic dividing wall. We are called to seeking the renewal of our city, but we must not mistake the sign (place) for the signified (God).
In this message, author and minister, Jerusalem Greer, shares how she discovered the connections between creation care, incarnational theology, and racial justice through the hashtag “Black Farmers.”
In this message, Pastor T. C. connects Roots’ value of shalom (in all four dimensions: God, self, others, world) with confronting the challenge of global warming. We will not prevent the most costly consequences of climate change with individualistic solutions. We need to look ‘upstream’ to systemic solutions.
In this sermon, Emily Morrison helps us understand the connection between our “eschatology” (our view of the “end times” or Jesus’s return) and our approach to creation care. She reminds us that God is making “all things new” not “all new things.”
In this message, Pastor Osheta shares about the ways creation plays a vital part in our spirituality and points to a fascinating resource called “The 3-Day Effect: How Nature Calms Our Brains” by Florence Williams.
In this sermon, Pastor T. C. introduces the “It is Good” teaching series on humanity’s calling to be stewards and vice-regents of creation on God’s behalf. He begins with Genesis chapter 1 where God says of creation: It is Good.
In this sermon, Pastor Osheta reflects on what it means to be “Easter people” in light of the Resurrection of Jesus.
In this sermon, Pastor T. C. walks through chapters 11 and 12 of John which juxtapose Jesus’s close relationship with the family of Mary, Martha, and Lazarus with the scheming of the rulers and authorities to execute him. We are invited to ask ourselves questions about where we see ourselves and our world reflected in…
In John 12, Jesus reflects on the meaning of his death on the cross. His crucifixion exposes the unjust and corrupt way the world is ordered. Systemic evils like racism and misogyny are forms of Scapegoating carried out by the principalities and powers. Jesus disarms the powers by defeating their greatest weapon: the fear of…
If we don’t understand the broader story framework of the Bible, even a verse as familiar as John 3:16 can be misunderstood and its message distorted. Far too many people think that the story the Bible is telling is about personal behavior, knowing the right information about Jesus, and going to heaven when we die.…
Jesus’s temple protest reveals God’s heart for the oppressed and Jesus’s critical eye toward structures in society that exploit the poor. This passage challenges those of us who are more inclined to avoid conflict to speak truth to power. But it’s important to note that Jesus’s table-flipping isn’t for “both sides”—all tables are not the…
In this message, Pastor T. C. preaches on Jesus’s baptism and wilderness temptation (Mark 1), belovedness, and observing Lent. Like Jesus, we are grounded in our belovedness, against which no weapon can prosper.
In this sermon, Pastor Osheta combines her reflections on a famous Spiritual entitled “There’s a Balm in Gilead” with concluding thoughts on being a Healing Community for our series, Journey Together. She teaches us that in the same way that Jesus is our healing balm, we as a community become a healing balm for one…
In this message, Pastor T. C. teaches on contemplative prayer. These are practices that engage our imaginations and connect us with Christ spiritually. One form of contemplative prayer is what Pastor Brian Zahnd calls “Sitting with Jesus.”
In this message, Pastor T. C. shares about his journey into understanding prayer as formative and collective. As we continue in the Journey Together series, forming Journey Groups, this will lay an important foundation.
One of the reasons why reading Scripture together in community is important is because in it we locate ourselves in the on-going story of God renewing all things. Another reason is that the diversity of the body of Christ helps us to understand the Scriptures from multiple angles, revealing more of the beauty and complexity…
Continuing in the “Journey Together” series, in this live message, Pastor T. C. teaches on the topic of “Community Discernment” from Acts 15.
In this first message of the “Journey Together” series, Pastor T. C. grounds the series 1 Thessalonians 2 where the apostle Paul compares his ministry among the Thessalonians to familial relationships like a mother and father. Paul writes, “Because we loved you so much, we were delighted to share with you not only the gospel…
In this Epiphany homily, Pastor T. C. draws out two themes from the story of the Magi who visit the child Jesus in Matthew 2. The first theme is Cultural Appropriation vs. Cultural Admiration. The second is “returning home by another way.”
In this message, Pastor Osheta zeroes in on Mary and Elizabeth in the story of Jesus’s birth to expound upon the theme of “Those Who Dream Are Not Alone.”
This third week of Advent, we turn to the Song of Mary (also known as The Magnificat) and look to Mary’s extraordinary faith as inspiration. Before she saw God’s deliverance, she sowed seeds of joy.
What does it mean to “Prepare the way for the Lord”? That’s a phrase from Isaiah 40 associated with John the Forerunner in Mark 1. John is shown to be the voice crying out in the wilderness to prepare the way for the Lord. But how? Well, Isaiah says that “Every valley shall be raised…
Pastor T. C. kicks off the “Those Who Dream” teaching series for the seasons of Advent, Christmastide, and Epiphany. In this homily, the theme of Hope is explored in the context of keeping awake to God’s work in the dark.
In this capstone message in the “Spoke in the Wheel” teaching series, Pastor José Humphreys teaches on the costliness of grace leads to embodied action. He teaches us about sharing in the attitude of Christ, laying down our privileges for the sake of others.
As we continue in the “Spoke in the Wheel” teaching series, Pastor T. C. addresses five common misconceptions around “Peacemaking.”
Dietrich Bonhoeffer once wrote, “There is meaning in every journey that is unknown to the traveler.” In this message, Pastor Osheta peaches on this journey motif in present context.
As we continue in our teaching series “Spoke in the Wheel: Dietrich Bonhoeffer & Kingdom Allegiance,” Pastor T. C. teaches on Matthew 5.13-16. Another way Bonhoeffer’s time in Harlem transformed him was in his understanding of discipleship. No longer did he view the Sermon on the Mount as an impossibly high standard we can never…
This week, Pastor Osheta delivers her sermon live. She teaches on “Overcoming Fear,” a theme on which Bonhoeffer once preached.
Jesus said the two-fold greatest commandment is to Love God and Love Your Neighbor as Yourself. Paul, writing before the Gospel traditions were written down, summarized this command with just Love Your Neighbor. First John helps us understand why: we can’t love God if we hate human beings made in God’s image. Paul also shows…
In this sermon, Pastor T. C. kicks off a new teaching series on Dietrich Bonhoeffer and Kingdom allegiance. In this election season, polarization and partisanship aren’t the primary problem—injustice is. What we can learn from the Scriptures, the life of Jesus, the of the early church, and the example of Dietrich Bonhoeffer is resistance to…
In this sermon, Pastor T. C. caps off the “Loyal-love” series with a message from the Old Testament lectionary reading: Exodus 17.1-6. This is the story of God providing Israel water from a rock while they traveled in the wilderness. Right now many of us feel like we’re also wandering in a desert place. But…
In this sermon, Emily Morrison reflects on two passages from this week’s lectionary readings: Matthew 20 (the parable of the vineyard workers) and John 4. In both, we see how the lavish Loyal-love and graciousness of God can seem a little too good at times. How do we respond when we feel this way? Emily…
As we continue in our series, Loyal-love: Exploring God’s Character and Mighty Deeds, we reach the Passover narrative. While we rightfully celebrate the liberation of the Israelites in the this story, we are less prone to celebrate God’s judgment upon the unjust Egyptian policy of slavery and Pharaoh himself. Why is that? God’s Loyal-love compels…
As we continue in our teaching series, Loyal-love, and following along with the Revised Common Lectionary, our text this week is from Exodus 3, Moses’s encounter with God in the “Burning Bush.”
In this sermon, Pastor T. C. kicks off a new teaching series from Exodus chapter 1 as we follow along with the Revised Common Lectionary. By joining with hundreds of millions of other Christians around the world, we are seeking to discern what God’s Spirit is saying to the whole church. This message focuses on…
In this sermon, Pastor Osheta explores the theme of subversive joy from a song called “Toast” by Koffee.
In this sermon, Pastor Der explores the story of Esther in relationship to the lyrics of “Times Like These” by Foo Fighters.
In this sermon, Pastor T. C. explores the themes of jealous, envy, and contentment in the song “Wait For It” from the popular musical, Hamilton. The apostle Paul discusses these themes in 2 Corinthians 10-11 when he is defending his authority as an apostle and the authenticity of his Gospel.
In this sermon, Emily Morrison draws our attention toward the theme of being still before God in the song “Let’s be still” by The Head and the Heart.
In this sermon, Pastor Der preaches on the story of Joseph and how it reflects the theme of God showing up for us when we things seem darkest. Like the song “Sunset” by The Midnight says, “it’s always darkest before the dawn.”
In this message, Pastor T. C. talks about the themes of lament and formation for service in the midst of two epidemics: Covid-19 and Covid-1619 (the epidemic of anti-Black racism that has plagued the U.S. since the first slave ship arrived in 1619). The song for this week is “I Find it Hard to Say…
In this message, Pastor T. C. talks about the themes of idolatry and social injustice. The song for this week is “Chemical” by Jack Garratt, from his album “Phase.”
Continuing in the season of Pentecost, this sermon follows up on the outpouring of the Holy Spirit in Acts 2, with teaching on how the early church reimagined life together as a multiethnic community, confronted opposition from the broader society, and challenges from within. Two of the challenges from within were some self-interested disciples centering…
This sermon is about the liberating power of the Holy Spirit, who is symbolized by breath and fire. This message is also about Jesus, who was crushed by the unjust power of empire, just like George Floyd. And this message is about the alternative society of shalom God is forming among the ethnically diverse body…
To cap off our teaching series on the parables of Jesus, Emily Morrison is teaches on parable of the lost sheep.
In this message, Pastor Osheta teaches on Jesus’s parable of the leaven by giving us three “Kingdom Starters.”
This week, as we continue in our series on the parables of Jesus, called “Ears to Hear,” Pastor Der Lor explores the Parable of the Two Builders from Luke’s account of what’s often called the “Sermon on the Plain.”
This is the second message in the teaching series on Jesus’s parables called, “Ears to Hear.” In this sermon, Pastor T. C. contrasts a story from a song, called “The Snake,” with a parable of Jesus which has come to be known as “The Good Samaritan.” The Snake story is a favorite of the current…
This is the introduction sermon for the “Ears to Hear” teaching series on the parables of Jesus. We’re taking another look at these enigmatic stories with an ear toward what they might have to say to us today. Because we are not only daily being formed by the practices in which we participate, but we…
Lament is a neglected aspect of Christian worship in the Western world and perhaps especially in the United States. In troubled times when it’s clear the world is not as it should be—God’s dream of shalom is disrupted—God’s people cry out to God on behalf of the vulnerable, the abused, the marginalized. Lament is an…
In the Gospel according to Luke, Jesus is led by the Spirit into the wilderness. There he confronts the devil and resists three temptations. These three temptations aren’t just instructive for us personally, they also describe perennial temptations the church faces in relationship to society. They are: 1. Empire Economics; 2. Idolatrous Nationalism; and 3.…
Lent is a season of the Christian calendar in which we are once again invited to be formed by the pattern of Jesus’s life. In this series we will not only explore the personal application of Lenten practice, but also the corporate application. A framing passage for this series is from Isaiah 58: Shout it…
In this message, Pastor T. C. shares the ways he has had to rethink “heaven” and “hell,” particularly where traditional views have not lined up with what the Bible actually teaches.
“Church” might be the subject that evokes the most emotions for those “deconstructing/reconstructing.” Church is where the proverbial rubber meets the road when it comes to our faith. It’s also where flawed human beings steward the sacred mysteries of the faith. Church is the space where God’s Spirit inhabits our relationships in an unique way,…
In this message, Pastor Osheta Moore guides us through aspects of the deconstruction journey she’s been on as it relates to her experience and beliefs about the Holy Spirit. In a similar way to how the prophet Elijah looked for God to show up in overt manifestations of power, but God showed up in a…
What is the Bible? How did we get it? How are we supposed to interpret it? How do we understand the Bible and its role in our spiritual formation? In this sermon, Pastor Der Lor explores how we can discover the Jesus Way in our understanding of Scripture after deconstruction.
As we continue in our current teaching series, Emily Morrison delivers this sermon on Faith. In John chapter 6, the crowds that followed Jesus had many questions for him. In fact, Jesus’s disciples often doubted. Ultimately, Jesus didn’t explain the faith, he asked people to believe in him, to trust him. Emily shows us that…
Jesus compared his Way to a wise person building their home on a rock. However, there are many Christian belief systems and structures that have been built on top of the Jesus Way which should be rightfully deconstructed—they are foundations of sinking sand. Belief systems and structures that are built on fear, cultural assimilation, and…
The kingdom of heaven is like treasure hidden in a field. When a man found it, he hid it again, and then in his joy went and sold all he had and bought that field. Again, the kingdom of heaven is like a merchant looking for fine pearls. When he found one of great value,…
During the season of Christmastide, we give each other gifts in celebration of the greatest gift ever given to the world: Jesus. The advent of Jesus into the world is the greatest demonstration of God’s grace. However, we often misunderstand God’s grace when we think of it as a ‘one-way, unilateral donation.’ As we see…
The theme of the fourth and final week of Advent Conspiracy is Love All. In this sermon, Pastor Osheta draws from a famous Christmas song, “Do You Hear What I Hear?” to discern how the Good News about God’s love for all is spread from creation to the margins and from the margins to the…
The theme of Advent week 3 in the Making Christmas Meaningful Again (Advent Conspiracy) series is Give More. This sermon is by Pastor Der Lor.
What does it look like to make Christmas meaningful again? How do we resist the powerful forces of consumerism and consumption? In week two of Advent, Emily Morrison explores the theme of “Spend Less” with a sermon from I Timothy 6.
This Advent, Roots is joining with hundreds of other congregations in conspiring against consumerism in our Christmas celebrations. The first theme of Advent Conspiracy is “Worship Fully.” In this sermon, Pastor T. C. explores the way we are formed by embodied practices. The apostle Paul teaches us to “offer our bodies as living sacrifices” to…
In this sermon, Pastor Der teaches on Paul’s argument to the so-called ‘Weak’ and ‘Strong’ factions in the house churches of Rome about how both Jewish and Gentile disciples are justified by “faith” in the same way that Abraham was.
In Romans 1.18–32, Paul employs language that echoes common Jewish stereotypes of Gentiles as particularly depraved and deserving of God’s wrath. Examples of this rhetoric can be found in Wisdom of Solomon. But Paul uses this rhetoric not to reinforce division between the Jewish and Gentile disciples in Rome. No! Paul uses it as a…
After having completed the 12-16 and 9-11 sections of Romans, we are leapfrogging over the 5-8 section to the 1-4 section, and returning to the foundation of the Christian faith: The Gospel. In Romans chapter 1, we discover that the Gospel Paul preached wasn’t the ‘Romans Road,’ but was instead about Jesus, not us; Good…
In this sermon, Emily Morrison breaks down one of the most confusing and misunderstood passages in all of the New Testament: Romans chapters 9-11. Paul is retelling the biblical narrative, reinterpreted in the light of who Jesus is and what he has done, for the sake of the unity of the church of Rome. The…
Romans chapter 9 has been misunderstood as a passage about individual election, predestination, and personal salvation. But Romans is not a book of abstract, systematic theology. Romans is a pastoral letter written to a church with factions along cultural and ethnic lines. Paul is writing to the so-called “Weak” and “Strong” to reframe the stories…
Romans 13 is a famous text that has been used as a proof-text to justify state-sponsored violence for millennia. By reading Romans “backwards” (in light of the conflict between the factions in the house churches of Rome), we can more clearly see Paul’s purpose for writing this passage. Rather than sanctioning state-sponsored violence, Paul was…
These three words, Christoformity, Glory, and Hope, represent the basic arch of Paul’s theological conviction for a unified multiethnic family of Jesus followers. Through what Scott McKnight calls “Christoformity” or the process of becoming like Christ in self-sacrificing ways, the Weak and the Strong – Jews and Gentiles–bring Glory to God when they give up…
In chapters 14 and 15, the apostle Paul/Saul directly addresses the conflict between factions in the house churches of Rome. Namely, he points out that there is division among them along cultural and ethnic lines after the Jewish disciples who were expelled from Rome begin returning only to find a gentile-dominated church that no longer feels like home. The factions, which Beverly Roberts Gaventa lovingly refers to as the “lettuce-eaters” and the “garbage-bellies,” are deriving their identities from sources other than being in Christ. So Paul calls them back to being part of an alternative home—the Household of Christ. Because the household to whom you belong will define your identity and your way of life. Being members of Christ’s household makes the two factions one family. A lot more hangs on whether these factions can love one another than whether or not there’s shrimp scampi for dinner!
In this message, Pastor Osheta continues our exploration of the house churches of Rome from Romans chapter 16 with a deeper dive into some important female leaders, three of whom are Phoebe, Priscilla, and Junia.
This is the first message in a new teaching series, exploring the letter to the church at Rome, written by the apostle Paul/Saul. In this message, Pastor T. C. introduces the series and explains why reading Romans “backwards” helps keep the theology of the letter in its social and ecclesial contexts, as well as making it more easily applicable in our contemporary contexts.
In this message Pastor T. C. connects the Sabbath to the themes of trusting God for Abundance and Resistance to the fear of Scarcity.
In this message Pastor Der continues in the theme of Divine Rest with a new look at the story of Mary and Martha in Luke 10.