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Join our community in learning to pray Psalms of Orientation, Disorientation and New Orientation. Today, we learn to pray in seasons of Orientation, discerning David's prayer in Psalm 8.
We learn to pray with Jesus, declaring that God is on the move to reunite heaven and earth through prayer!Our community discerns scripture together in the following way:- Open Discussion on our initial observations/questions regarding what the passage is saying about God/Jesus/people/Creation and their interaction.- A short sermon - Open discussion as to what we are hearing and sensing Holy Spirit is speaking to us personally and corporately
Pastor John David and the New Creation ABQ community discern I Corinthians 15:58.
IN A WORLD ENTANGLED WITH POWER AND EMPIRE, WHERE DOES OUR TRUE ALLEGIANCE BELONG?Drawing from Revelation 19 and 18, the New Creation ABQ community discuss and discern the seductive pull of Babylon. We ask how we might pledge our loyalty to the Lamb. In the face of competing kingdoms, we are called to resist with righteousness and find our place at the wedding feast of the Lamb.Our Community Discernment of Scripture on Sundays is typically:Open Discussion: Initial Observations, Tensions, & Questions (5-10min).Proclamation/Sermon (10-20min)Open Discernment of Spirit/Response (5-10min)
Listen in on our community's discernment of Revelation 5 in which we see Jesus as the one who unleashes God's healing intention onto the world. The format of our time around scripture is:We discuss the text A short sermon is proclaimedWe discern our response
Listen to this week's synthesis of Sunday's "Beholding and Becoming" discussion.Questions for Reflection:As a nation of "people filled w/expectation" and prone to deception, how can we point to the true Messiah?What might it mean for you personally to receive the good news of "fire" that Jesus brings?You can access the "Beholding & Becoming" study guide we base our Sunday discussion on HEREYou can watch the VIDEO VERSION of Jesse's summary HERE
Listen in on Jesse's 8 min summary and synthesis of our community's prayerful conversation on Luke 2:22-40 which describes the beautiful encounter of the aging Simeon and Anna with young Jesus in the Temple.In preparation for our conversation, we engage the practice of "beholding and becoming." You can download the guide at the link below.Beholding & Becoming Reflection Guide
We look at the parable of the Good Samaritan, seeing that Jesus is both the good Samaritan and the wounded one, inviting us to be a community that cooperates with God in humanity's healing.
John David explains the mystery of the Trinity and the beauty of Jesus making available to us fellowship with the Triune God.
We begin our Advent Series, celebrating the arrival of God made flesh, declaring the good news that Jesus is re-telling your story, healing the wounds of sin you've inflicted on others and that others have inflicted on you.
Jesse declares the good news of shalom from Ephesians 2:13-18, sharing stories of reconciliation and shalom from his visit to Cambodia.
Janice proclaims good news from Hebrews. God is has made a way for deep spiritual rest in his work. We can courageously open up the most vulnerable parts of ourselves to his healing love.
We conclude the Sermon on the Mount, considering Jesus' final illustration and invitation toward flourishing.
We begin the concluding section of the Sermon on the Mount in which Jesus summarizes all that he has proclaimed with the "Golden Rule" - "In everything do unto others as you would have them do unto you." Join us as we look at Jesus invitation into the narrow way of wide love.
John David brings us good news from Matthew 7:7-11 as we continue our series on Jesus' Sermon on the Mount.
Mako Nagasawa of the Anastasis Center (http://anastasiscenter.org) brings us good news from the Gospel of Matthew 3:13ff. Jesus retells the story of Israel and enters our story as well, offering us the strength and opportunity to retell our stories in light of God's healing love.
Jesus disentangles us from the wounding cultures of condemnation and judgment, inviting us to point one another to Jesus' judgment which alone brings life and healing.
In a world trapped in a cycle of scarcity and competition for resources, Jesus is inviting us to co-create a world in which there is less and less to worry about for everyone. Join us as we unpack the good news of Jesus regarding anxiety and the provision of God from Matthew 6:25-34
In a world where we are deceived to believe that money and stuff will give us the security, stability, esteem and pleasure we long for, Jesus is freeing us from the painful pursuit of stuff that cannot satisfy, inviting us to live fully in the unfailing generosity of his love.Good news from Matthew 6:19-24
John David teaches us the beauty of following Jesus into the practice of fasting.
Jesus calls us into regular and repeated practices that shape us in loving relationship to God and neighbor. Giving, prayer and fasting are gifts that grow us in God's love, not rules that earn God's love.
In Matthew 6:1, Jesus introduces the next section of the Sermon on the Mount, reminding us that The loving attention, affection and acceptance we are so anxiously trying to get from others is already ours in Christ Jesus.
Hannah brings us good news regarding God's faithfulness and our following from Exodus 14!
We live in a world that needs us to make enemies to stay in control and remain profitable.We live in a world that teaches us to withhold love only for the special few who deserve it. Matthew 5:43-48 reminds us thatJesus is freeing us from the “enemy making machine,” healing our hearts to love completely those who do not completely love us
In a world of retaliation and getting even, Holy Spirit is filling us with courage to resist evil with humanizing love. Jesus invites us into a life that disrupts cycles of violent retaliation with surprising acts of nonviolent resistance that humanize both the oppressed and oppressor, making space for restored relationships.
In a world wounded by words that deceive, demean and dismiss people, Jesus is inviting us to heal the wounds of deceit by being people who tell the truth with our words and our lives.
God's loyal love is fully redeeming our marriage relationships. Jesus calls us into deep covenant commitment while protecting the vulnerable, especially women, in these covenant relationships.
Matthew 5:27-30. Jesus describes the serious and sacred beauty of our sexual desire, inviting us to return to the goodness of our sexual desire that we might honor our own bodies and that of others.
Our series on the Sermon on the Mount continues as we look at Jesus teaching on murder in Matthew 5:21-26, declaring that:The Holy Spirit is making a way to step toward the person on the other side of the anger that is dividing, destroying and de-humanizing us.
Jesus declares our true identity as the salt of the earth and the light of the world. As we follow Jesus on His Way of Righteousness, we become who we are, a beacon of hope and healing in a world trapped in cycles of destruction.
Sarah Dumas invites us to place ourselves on the path of beholding the beauty of Jesus, learning from Mary in Matthew 28:1-10.
This Mother's Day, we look at 2 Kings 4:1-7 and God's provision for a mother experiencing profound struggle.
The Spirit of the living God is making us strong to walk the right path even when its the hard road.When we follow Jesus into a life formed by the cross and ethics of the sermon on the mount, we will experience resistance.
The Spirit is active in the middle of conflict, healing us back to the fullness of peace.
Guest preacher, Anna Bellum, proclaims good news from Daniel 4, helping us seek the peace of the places we are planted.
We continue you series in the Sermon on the Mount, looking at the sixth beatitude: "Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God." - Matthew 5:8We proclaim the good news that: Your life is being freed into focus, you can see love clearly, want love only and pursue love fully.
God's Mercy is More and is flowing to you and through you now.
The risen Jesus rescues us from all that binds us to a life of liberating love.
We continue our series exploring the Sermon on the Mount with the fourth beatitude: Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they will be filled.In a world experiencing deep hunger and pain, we declare that:God is restoring us hungry ones to our place at God's table where there is more than enough of all that we need.
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