Gather Houston

Brianna preaches from Acts 2 on the birth of the church and how God is the God of the individual and the collective.

Josh teaches from Jesus's prayer in John 17 on embracing an awareness of our oneness.

Josh and Brianna answer questions submitted by the church.

Josh teaches on superiority, inclusion, and loving our enemies.

Josh teaches from Psalm 23 about the subversive claim that God is like a shepherd.

Josh teaches from Acts 9 about Saul's conversion and embracing change in the context of safe community.

Josh teaches about how the resurrected Jesus approaches a group of tired and doubting disciples.

Josh teaches on Easter Sunday about becoming a community of witnesses.

Josh teaches on Palm Sunday about the God who chooses weakness and solidarity.

Josh teaches on the spiritual work of integration.

Brianna teaches on grief, anger, and our ability to hold it all.

Josh teaches on the temptation of Jesus and life in the wilderness.

Josh teaches on pursuing a transfigured faith.

Jonathan Merritt speaks on Mark 13.

Brianna teaches on tending to our needs through the many seasons of life.

Josh teaches on the invitation to re-write our foundational ideas of faith.

Josh teaches on finding Christ in the margins.

Josh teaches on the practice of acknowledging our limitations.

Josh teaches from Luke 3 on Baptism of Our Lord Sunday.

Josh shares the community emphasis for 2025.

Josh teaches on the Advent theme of love.

Josh teaches on the Advent theme of joy.

Brianna teaches on the Advent theme of peace.

Josh begins the season with teaching on the Advent theme of hope.

Gather community member Callina Anderson teaches on reimagining Sarah in her full humanity.

Josh shares a reflection on our collective experience of election week.

Brianna teaches on reimagining Tamar as a brave resister.

Josh teaches on reimagining Naomi as an example of how to tend to our hope.

Brianna teaches on reimagining Hagar.

Josh begins a new conversation on reimagining the Old Testament matriarchs by reimagining Eve.

Josh finishes our conversation on the Apostle Paul.

Josh teaches on Paul's sexual ethics.

Brianna teaches on Paul and women.

Jonathan Merritt teaches on belonging and the purpose of the church.

Josh teaches on the empowering work of the spirit.

Josh teaches on Paul's understanding of Salvation.

Josh teaches on reimagining Paul's vision for Christian ethics.

Brianna concludes our teaching on what it means to be a missional church.

Brianna interviews Monique Joseph about the work of Restoring Justice.

Brianna interviews Tara Grigg Green about the work of Foster Care Advocacy Center.

Brianna interviews Courtney Sellers about the work of Grace Place.

Hannah Terry shares about the work of FAM Houston.

Josh teaches on reimagining the church as a place of simplicity.

Josh teaches on reimagining the church as a place of peacemaking.

Josh teaches on reimagining the church as a place of humility.

Brianna teaches on reimagining the church as a place of belonging.

Josh teaches on the good news that we are already forgiven and have always been free.

Josh teaches on the good news that we are always rescued out of harm and fear into safety and wholeness.

Brianna teaches on the good news that we are the beloved children of a mother God.

Josh teaches on embracing the good news that we are created and called good.