Pathways Podcast – Forest Hill Presbyterian Church: Recent Episodes
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29: Poetry Slam As we approach the end of the program year we celebrate with readings from some of our favorite poems.
28: Everything New April showers bring May flowers…this week we discuss the similarities of new life in Christ and spring flowers.
27: Keeping Creation Beautiful This week we hear the story of creation and consider what we can do to keep God’s world beautiful.
Earth Day Bonus: Caring for Creation (Replay) We took a week off from the Podcast. For earth day, please enjoy this replay of our second episode ever: “Caring for Creation”… Today we focus on a second creation story from the Bible, and when God calls humanity to care for creation. Special spotlight this week on […]
26: Alleluia Voices Our Easter episode opens with “Alleluia Voices”, a collection of Alleluias from the families and friends of Forest Hill Church. Then we cover the Easter story and come to the incredibly simple and incredibly complicated realization that Easter means “Jesus is Alive”. Also, be sure to check out our Storybook Bible Time […]
25: Palm Sunday This week we discuss Jesus’s celebratory entry into Jerusalem and the beginning of Holy Week. Also, be sure to check out our Holy Week Art Show. Along with our Holy Week Story-time videos.
24: Hate The COVID-19 Pandemic has made our “Into the Wilderness” unit a lot more real, and most of us are hunkered down at home. Since we were unable to have in-person Sunday School, we attempted a virtual class this past week and asked families to send in voice memos for the podcast… We continue […]
23: Deception The COVID-19 Pandemic has made our “Into the Wilderness” unit a lot more real, and most of us are hunkered down at home. Since we were unable to have in-person Sunday School, we attempted a virtual class this past week and asked families to send in voice memos for the podcast… We continue […]
22: Fear Our “Into the Wilderness” unit got a lot more real this week. The COVID-19 Pandemic has brought a lot of new fear and anxiety to our community and to our world. and most of us our hunkered down at home. Since we were unable to have in perosn Sunday School, we sent out […]
21: Jesus: An Interpretation This week, we continue our Lenten unit: Into the Wilderness, where we will wander the wilderness with Jesus on the way to Easter. The theme each week will also correspond to the theme of a chapter in the book: Jesus and the Disinherited by Howard Thurman. This week: Chapter 1 – […]
20: Into the Wilderness This week, we begin a new unit: Into the Wilderness. We have left the story of the Israelites. They are free from Egypt and from Pharaoh. They are no longer slaves. They crossed the sea but now will spend 40 years wandering the wilderness searching for a new home. This week […]
19: Long Walk to Freedom This week, we finish our unit following the Israelite story of Liberation out of Egypt.
18: Let My People Go This week, we continue our unit following the Israelite story of Liberation out of Egypt. In this episode, we talk about when Moses went into Egypt and told Pharaoh to Let God’s People Go, or “Let my people go”.
17: Fire of Freedom Last week we picked up with the Great Family of Genesis and heard about how they have been oppressed and enslaved by the Egyptians who forced them to do hard and cruel work because they were different. We also heard about how Moses was saved by several women in his life, […]
16: Women of Liberation This week, we begin a new unit. We will pick up with the Great Family in the second book of Torah: Exodus. The story of the Israelite liberation from slavery begins with the actions of women. Shiphrah and Puah saved lives by ignoring an unjust order; and Moses was able to grow […]
15: Incarnation We are finishing our Incarnation unit, where we are discussing what it means for God to have been born and live and be among us. Today we discuss Matthew 25 and seeing Jesus in everyone we meet.
14: Injustice We are continuing our Incarnation unit, where we are discussing what it means for God to have been born and live and be among us. Today we will talk about injustice, and what God’s presence pushes us to do. In 1968 sanitation workers in Memphis, Tennessee went on strike to fight for higher […]
13: Immersion We are starting a new unit about “Incarnation.” For the next three weeks we will be talking about what it means for God to have been born and live and be among us. Today we will talk about how God, through Jesus, was immersed in humanity, and Baptized as a beloved child of […]
12: Advent 2 – Peace (Violence) Jesus was born into a world a violence, and sometimes that violence was state-sanctioned or worse religiously-sanctioned. There are plenty of examples in Scripture of Jesus getting upset or angry, or even flipping over tables. But he responds to the violence of the world with a kind of peace. […]
11: Advent 1 – Hope (Oppression) Isaiah is a book of Exile, of Oppression, but also of Hope. Assyria was the dominant power of Isaiah’ day, and the prophet speaks to a subjugated and oppressed people, but also offers hope in God, and God’s coming rule. In his memoir Just Mercy, lawyer Bryan Stevenson describes […]
Bonus Episode: Thanksgiving What are you thankful for? What is something about your family that you are thankful for? What is something about your church that you are thankful for? What do you think God is thankful for?
10: The Kin-dom of God This is our last episode of our “Kin-dom” unit. Last week we finished the story of the Great Family of Genesis with Joseph and the family’s migration to Egypt. Next week we will begin our Advent unit, as we await the birth of Christ. This week we are connect Jesus […]
09: The Brother Who Was Different Today we finish the book of Genesis as we near the end of our “Kin-dom” unit. Today we talk about the story of Joseph. In the story, his brothers hate him out of jealousy of what makes him different and banish him from his home. But God watches over […]
08: Children of Israel This is week five of our “Kin-dom” unit, this week we continue the story of the Great Family of Genesis through Jacob’s 12 sons (the 12 tribes of Israel). We will focus on how all families are unique in their own way. Jacob’s is a mixed family, with his sons coming from […]
07: Jacob’s Sacred Stone Today we continue the story of Jacob from the Great Family of Genesis. After tricking his brother Esau, Jacob flees to the desert and sleeps on a stone where God visits him in a dream.
06: Jacob and Esau: A Trickster Tale This is week three of our “Kin-dom” unit and the Great Family of Genesis. Today we explore the story of Jacob and Esau as a Trickster Tale. Native American Theologians have seen a connection between the Biblical character of Jacob and the many “tricksters” found in American Indian […]
05: Children’s Sabbath (Hagar and Ishmael) Today, we continue to go through the Great Family of Genesis in our Kin-dom unit. Last week, we started with Abram/Abraham. Today we talk about Hagar and Ishmael. Hagar was Abram’s second wife. And Ishmael was his first child. However, they were marginalized and cast out. Forgotten by society. […]
04: The Great Family We begin a new unit: “The Kin-dom of God.” From now until Advent, we will go through the Great Family of Genesis. Today, we are going start with one person: Abram (who later becomes Abraham).
03: Creating the Beloved Community We are finishing our Creation unit. Today we talk about “the image of God” and what it means for us, all of us, to be a part of creation. Special spotlight today on Ghanian Theologian Mercy Amba Oduyoye and her reimagining of the creative command.