Sunday Messages - Watershed Charlotte

Recommended Reading: Becoming Kin, Patti Krawec Native, Kaitlin Curtice Unsettling Truths, Mark Charles and Soong-Chan Rah Braiding Sweetgrass, Robin Wall Kimmerer

The interview with Courtney referenced in the intro can be found here: https://youtu.be/uGywaQsj0aE

The Reverend Rob Lee IV joins us today for the second week of our series called The Divine and Me. Rob does a great job at discussing the nuances of divinity and humanity and why it matters to have conversations about the divine today in 2023.

Teaching Pastor Cedric Lundy flexes his perfect chocolate chip cookie recipe as he opens Watershed's new series on reclaiming ideas from our spiritual past called The Divine and Me. Cedric uses the metaphor of his process for creating the perfect chocolate chip cookies to explore the importance of deconstructing and reconstructing – of reclaming – our spiritual lives in beautiful and intentional ways.

As we wrap up our annual relationship series for another year, David and Kim share some final thoughts on relationships, love, learning to value your self within the context of relationships and answer several of your questions.

On February 19, 2023, three members of the Watershed Community who are also mental health therapists joined David on stage for a revealing and informational conversation sharing topics related to relationships, trauma, spirituality, and how all of these things impact how we see ourselves and others.

Teaching pastor David Roberts shares an exploration of the importance of paying attention to and developing a relationship with The Self, through the lens of Paul and Sigmund Freud. David talks about the his awareness of his own sense of self and delves into our ability to be in relationship with others as being dependent on our own self-concept.

Teaching Team members Kim Honeycutt and Shawn Bowers Buxton share in conversation about their own family-of-origin experiences, how it shaped them, and how they learned to honor their parents by setting boundaries and limits. They share from their own histories, discuss what forgiveness is and what it isn't, and offer us a path to healing from these childhood wounds to engage in deeper, meaningful relationships. This episode was originally recorded on Feb 5, 2023.

Recorded on Jan 29, 2023 at Watershed Charlotte, teaching team member and resident psychotherapist Kim Honeycutt shares a deeply personal and therapeutic talk about emotional regression, and how it affects our relationships with others and our relationship with the Divine. Kim also gives us some practical tools and knowledge to help establish patterns in our relationships that move us towards maturity, compassion, and health.

Matt shares a profound talk that gets into the ways that we – in the Church – have historically defined relationships in harmful ways, and how through a process of reclamation and liberation, we're disrupting our understandings and celebrating all relationships when love is present.

Teaching Pastor Shawn Bowers Buxton shares a deeply heartfelt exploration of grief, grieving, and how to love those who are no longer with us. She explores how the divine shows up in those moments of loss and how transformation is unavoidable.

Teaching Pastor Cedric Lundy kicks off our annual relationship series by exploring the use of non-violent communication in our relationships. Further, Cedric argues that when we adopt a belief in a God who engages with us using judgmental, shaming, or belittling language, we begin to internalize those same tendencies towards ourselves.

Teaching Pastor Shawn Bowers-Buxton shares a heart felt message about the profound impact of the iconography of the Black Madonna and how this has impacted her own understanding of her life, her faith, and the Christmas season.

Teaching Pastor Kim Honeycutt shares a deeply personal talk in our If Not for a Woman series that speaks about the many women in her life and throughout scripture that have been unnamed, unseen, and need to be celebrated and honored.

Jennifer Garcia Bashaw teaches New Testament and Christian Ministry at Campbell University in North Carolina. She received her B.A. from Baylor University (1999) and her M.Div. from Truett Theological Seminary (2002). She earned a Ph.D. in New Testament from Fuller Theological Seminary in 2012. Dr. Bashaw is an ordained American Baptist minister and has served in churches across the United States for the last 20 years. She has a passion for teaching the Bible and for training and supporting pastors. Her research and writing spans several fields: Gospels studies, Girardian interpretation, hermeneutics, homiletics, and practical theology.

Pastor David Roberts concludes our series based on Brené Brown's Atlas of the Heart with a conversation about the places we go when words fail.

Pastor David Roberts concludes our series based on Brené Brown's Atlas of the Heart with a conversation about the places we go when words fail.

Teaching Pastor Kim Honeycutt continues our series based on the work of Dr. Brené Brown in Atlas of the Heart by sharing humor and perspective on her story as well as some transformational stories from scripture.

Lead Pastor Matt O'Neil continues our series inspired by Atlas of the Heart and Dr. Brené Brown and speaks about the deeply spiritual practice of curiosity. Watershed is a progressive, fully affirming church where urban lives intersect the Divine; where conversation, creativity, & compassion coalesce; where it's safe to be an inquirer; where transformation is our mantra; where relationships go beyond surface level; where justice is our heartbeat; where you can come as you are and where kids are viewed as our greatest investment in the future. watershedcharlotte.com

Teaching Pastor Kim Honeycutt shares from her experience as a therapist as well as her personal life to describe the connection between our faith and our connection with others, exploring attachment theory, near and far enemies, and so much more.

Teaching Pastor Cedric Lundy continues our series based on Brené Brown's Atlas of the Heart by sharing some of the places we go when we're angry.

Shawn kicks off our new series based on the work of Brene Brown by helping make the case for becoming familiar with our emotions and how that familiarity can help us communicate with others and understand our who we are in the eyes of God.

The Watershed Teaching Team shares perspective on how we've been influenced as an organization and as individuals by the model of Jesus' disciples.

Teaching Pastor Kim Honeycutt shares a deeply personal talk describing how we all change and grow as we seek the transformational message of Christ.

Teaching Pastor Cedric Lundy shares some provocative thoughts about how pastors have been influential in positive and not so positive ways.

Pastor Matt O'Neil kicks off our new reclamation series, Somebody I Used to Know, with a talk about the Community I used to Know.

Family Pastor Blair Gore looks at the connections between scripture, spirituality, and providing loving parenting support to the kiddos.

David leads a Q & A session as we come near the end of our Textuality series.