Timothy Michael Dooner

2022 04 17 Resurrection Is Everywhere, And It Changes Us by Timothy Michael Dooner

2022 04 10 Palms, Hosannas, Salvation, And Distracting Privilege by Timothy Michael Dooner

2022 04 03 1 Peter 5 Living As Shepherds And Examples With Humility by Timothy Michael Dooner

2022 03 27 1 Peter 4 People Of Grace, Hospitality, And Above All, LOVE by Timothy Michael Dooner

2022 03 20 1 Peter 4 Always Changing, Different, More Godly by Timothy Michael Dooner

2022 03 13 Living With Hope, Gentleness, And A Clear Conscience by Timothy Michael Dooner

2022 02 27 1 Peter 2 Living For Righteousness And Willing To Suffer by Timothy Michael Dooner

2022 02 20 1 Peter 2 Honoring Human Authority But Free To Serve God Above All by Timothy Michael Dooner

2022 02 06 1 Peter 1 Obey Truth Love Constantly Born Anew by Timothy Michael Dooner

2022 01 30 1 Peter 1 Preparation, Discipline, And Holiness by Timothy Michael Dooner

2022 01 23 1 Peter 1 Salvation HERE As Natural Result Of Faith by Timothy Michael Dooner

2021 12 19 Micah 4 5 Waiting And Working For Shalom Peace by Timothy Michael Dooner

2021 12 12 Zephaniah 3 Waiting With Joy by Timothy Michael Dooner

2021 12 05 Lamentations 3 Advent Hope In God's Love (God Doesn't Cause Bad Things on Purpose) by Timothy Michael Dooner

2021 11 28 Jeremiah 33 Advent Hope Born Of Faith by Timothy Michael Dooner

2021 11 21 John 18 Christ The King (Not Just A Savior) by Timothy Michael Dooner

2021 11 07 John 14 Gathered By God With Vitality by Timothy Michael Dooner

2021 10 24 Matthew 18 19 Gathered By God WITH Children by Timothy Michael Dooner

2021 10 10 John 6 Gathered By God - No Pews Required by Timothy Michael Dooner

2021 10 04 Matthew 5 Gathered By God To Glorify God (and Not Ourselves!) by Timothy Michael Dooner

2021 09 26 1 Cor 12 Members Gathered By God Into The One Body by Timothy Michael Dooner

2021 09 19 Acts 2 Gathered By God, Not By Our Own Desires Or Agendas by Timothy Michael Dooner

2021 09 12 Technical Problems, Adaptive Challenges, And Godly Wisdom by Timothy Michael Dooner

2021 08 29 James 3 - Christians Tame Their Tongues by Timothy Michael Dooner

2021 08 22 James - We Are People Of Love, Liberty, And Mercy, But NOT Legalism by Timothy Michael Dooner

2021 08 15 James 2 Christians Are Impartial And Non-Judgmental by Timothy Michael Dooner

2021 08 08 James 2 Saved And Justified By A Faith That Works by Timothy Michael Dooner

2021 08 01 James 2 Faith Without Works Is Dead Faith: More than Church Goers and Believers by Timothy Michael Dooner

VFPC Scripture and Sermon from 7/25/21 Worship Service.

2021 06 11 Pride - A Christian Affirmation Of LGBTQ Marriage And Critique Of Biblical Marriage by Timothy Michael Dooner

Pride Month - A Christian Affirmation Of The LGBTQ Community And A Challenge To All Christians by Timothy Michael Dooner

Wilderness Spiritual Practice #9c - Simplifying Religious Beliefs (Minimizing Dogmatic Worry & Fear) by Timothy Michael Dooner

2021 04 10 Guided Spiritual Reflection Process on Gun Violence by Timothy Michael Dooner

2021 03 23 TIME OUT - We Need To Talk About Guns, Fear, And Idol Worship by Timothy Michael Dooner

Wilderness Spiritual Practice #9b - Simplifying Schedules (Minimizing Individualistic Worry) by Timothy Michael Dooner

Wilderness Spiritual Practice #9a - Simplifying And Materialism by Timothy Michael Dooner

Wilderness Spiritual Practice #9 - Intro To Simplifying (Disconnecting Worry And Fear) by Timothy Michael Dooner

2021 02 16 Wilderness Spiritual Practice 8 - Feasting (Hospitality, Not Gluttony) by Timothy Michael Dooner

Spiritual Practice #7 - Fasting (So Much More than NOT Eating) by Timothy Michael Dooner

Accountability Cycle, Part 2 (Responsibility, Reconciliation, Unity) by Timothy Michael Dooner

Accountability Cycle, Part 1 (Expectations, Honesty, Consequences) by Timothy Michael Dooner

The Capital Riot and the Spiritual Practice of Seeking HONESTY (Testing the Spirits) by Timothy Michael Dooner

2020 12 19 Wilderness Spiritual Practice #4 - Gratitude by Timothy Michael Dooner

Wilderness Spiritual Practice #3 - Mindfulness by Timothy Michael Dooner

Wilderness Spiritual Practice #2: Meditation by Timothy Michael Dooner

Wilderness Spiritual Practice #1: The Prayer Exchange (Religious or Not!) by Timothy Michael Dooner

The Election: The Mirror WE Must Gaze Upon, The Choice WE Must Make by Timothy Michael Dooner

The Dangers of Perfectionism, and Trading the Impossible for Love by Timothy Michael Dooner

Materialism, Consumerism, and Loosening Their Grip Upon Us by Timothy Michael Dooner

This series of spiritual reflections has progressed as we have been led into the wilderness of the COVID season together as a people. We are dislocated from what we used to know as "normal," and we are not settled into a "new normal." The wilderness has always been a place of spiritual growth and reorientation, and this series invites us all to carefully reflect on how we might be transformed in the ways that we understand ourselves and others so that we can create a better and more just future for all people. The episodes focus on the posture we take in the wilderness, the assumptions we carry into the wilderness with us, the troublesome physical tendencies that evolved within every human being as self-defense mechanisms, the temptations these tendencies cause, the various -isms that plague humanity and compromise peace as collective manifestations of these tendencies, and the need for a Golden-Rule Spirituality within all people to act as a louder voice and counter-force to the animalistic and self-preserving tendencies. If we can move beyond our instinctual self-focus and follow a spirituality that nurtures an other-focus with love for neighbor, then we can move together through this wilderness into a more peaceful and just world.

This series of spiritual reflections has progressed as we have been led into the wilderness of the COVID season together as a people. We are dislocated from what we used to know as "normal," and we are not settled into a "new normal." The wilderness has always been a place of spiritual growth and reorientation, and this series invites us all to carefully reflect on how we might be transformed in the ways that we understand ourselves and others so that we can create a better and more just future for all people. The episodes focus on the posture we take in the wilderness, the assumptions we carry into the wilderness with us, the troublesome physical tendencies that evolved within every human being as self-defense mechanisms, the temptations these tendencies cause, the various -isms that plague humanity and compromise peace as collective manifestations of these tendencies, and the need for a Golden-Rule Spirituality within all people to act as a louder voice and counter-force to the animalistic and self-preserving tendencies. If we can move beyond our instinctual self-focus and follow a spirituality that nurtures an other-focus with love for neighbor, then we can move together through this wilderness into a more peaceful and just world.