TNL is the Tuesday Night Liturgy parish of The Sacred Grace: a family of neighborhood churches. Together we are following the way of Jesus; together we are joining God to reduce suffering & increase joy.
Resurrection and rebuilding begin in the quiet, messy spaces: whether it's locked rooms, unseen foundations, or the sacred noise of reconstruction...God meets us there to help us lay the first small foundation stone toward what's next.Growing into the people we're created to be as we join God to incite love, reduce suffering, and increase joy. Find out more at tnl.org
Resurrection gives us back the freedom to choose, but like the exiles returning home or the disciples on the road to Emmaus, stepping into new life takes courage, vision, and the decision to move—especially when everything familiar feels different.Growing into the people we're created to be as we join God to incite love, reduce suffering, and increase joy. Find out more at tnl.org
Desert hope isn't about hype or quick fixes—it's the quiet, stubborn, deeply-rooted kind of hope that shows up, holds on, and refuses to quit, even when nothing seems to be changing.Growing into the people we're created to be as we join God to incite love, reduce suffering, and increase joy. Find out more at tnl.org
Sometimes, your biggest battles aren't happening around you, but inside your own mind.Growing into the people we're created to be as we join God to incite love, reduce suffering, and increase joy. Find out more at tnl.org
Humility is not a side quest, it's THE road through desert seasons.Growing into the people we're created to be as we join God to incite love, reduce suffering, and increase joy. Find out more at tnl.org
One of the gifts desert seasons offer us is detachment.Growing into the people we're created to be as we join God to incite love, reduce suffering, and increase joy. Find out more at tnl.org
Ever felt crushed by the weight of your life's circumstances? What do you do?Growing into the people we're created to be as we join God to incite love, reduce suffering, and increase joy. Find out more at tnl.org
Rather than trying to escape, what if we embraced desert seasons?Growing into the people we're created to be as we join God to incite love, reduce suffering, and increase joy. Find out more at tnl.org
The season of Lent is an invitation...Growing into the people we're created to be as we join God to incite love, reduce suffering, and increase joy. Find out more at tnl.org
Josh Pease of The Porch Church closes out our Epiphany series.Growing into the people we're created to be as we join God to incite love, reduce suffering, and increase joy. Find out more at tnl.org
Life can pass us by if we're waiting for the "right" time to step out in faith.Growing into the people we're created to be as we join God to incite love, reduce suffering, and increase joy. Find out more at tnl.org.
As we're stepping out into what God might be calling us to this year, it's easy to get distracted, burnt out, and drained. What do we do then?Growing into the people we're created to be as we join God to incite love, reduce suffering, and increase joy. Find out more at tnl.org.
Luke 8:43-48 & Lamentations 3 give us beautiful examples of the difference between hope and fear.Growing into the people we're created to be as we join God to incite love, reduce suffering, and increase joy. Find out more attnl.org.
The story of Peter walking on water is usually seen as a failure on his part. But is it? Growing into the people we're created to be as we join God to incite love, reduce suffering, and increase joy. Find out more at tnl.org.
The story of the magi that come to see the infant Christ is full of amazing details! Thanks for your patience with our break from releasing new episodes! We moved into a new space and are still working out some kinks in our production. Growing into the people we're created to be as we join God to incite love, reduce suffering, and increase joy. Find out more at tnl.org.
The conclusion of Revelation is some of the most beautiful images of hope you'll find anywhere.Promised links to The Bible Project's Revelation Summaries: tnl.org/tbp-revelation Growing into the people we're created to be as we join God to incite love, reduce suffering, and increase joy. Find out more at tnl.org.
Separate from Luke and Matthew, Revelation has its own cosmic nativity scene. Through it we're finally introduced to the antagonist of Revelation. Growing into the people we're created to be as we join God to incite love, reduce suffering, and increase joy. Find out more at tnl.org.
A reflection on the 2024 election through the lens of Revelation. Growing into the people we're created to be as we join God to incite love, reduce suffering, and increase joy. Find out more at tnl.org.
Tucked in the middle of Revelation is an easy to overlook story holding one of, if not THE central message of the entire apocalypse. Growing into the people we're created to be as we join God to incite love, reduce suffering, and increase joy. Find out more at tnl.org.
Does Revelation depict a violent, blood-thirsty, vengeful God, or is something deeper happening here? Growing into the people we're created to be as we join God to incite love, reduce suffering, and increase joy. Find out more at tnl.org.
This is the "central and centering image, the governing metaphor, the focal point of Revelation." Growing into the people we're created to be as we join God to incite love, reduce suffering, and increase joy. Find out more at tnl.org.
The entire book of Revelation is a message to the "seven churches in the province of Asia." To understand Revelation, we have to understand those communities. Growing into the people we're created to be as we join God to incite love, reduce suffering, and increase joy. Find out more at tnl.org.
This is a work of art not a piece of literature you can just pick up and read without some serious study. Growing into the people we're created to be as we join God to incite love, reduce suffering, and increase joy. Find out more at tnl.org.
Does Jesus really teach all rich people are condemned and all poor people automatically saved (Luke 16:19-31)? Growing into the people we're created to be as we join God to incite love, reduce suffering, and increase joy. Find out more at tnl.org.
This is a really difficult parable (Matthew 22:1-14). Growing into the people we're created to be as we join God to incite love, reduce suffering, and increase joy. Find out more at tnl.org.
God is recklessly extravagant with his grace toward us. Growing into the people we're created to be as we join God to incite love, reduce suffering, and increase joy. Find out more at tnl.org.
Josh Pease of The Porch Church considers Jesus' metaphor likening the Kingdom of God to a mustard seed. Growing into the people we're created to be as we join God to incite love, reduce suffering, and increase joy. Find out more at tnl.org.
Brandi Galuzzi takes a fresh look at Jesus' parable of the Good Samaritan. Growing into the people we're created to be as we join God to incite love, reduce suffering, and increase joy. Find out more at tnl.org.
The conclusion to Jesus' Sermon on the Mount (a little break from our James series). Growing into the people we're created to be as we join God to incite love, reduce suffering, and increase joy. Find out more at tnl.org.
Growing into the people we're created to be as we join God to incite love, reduce suffering, and increase joy. Find out more at tnl.org.
The Book of James, Part 7: Functionally Atheist vs Consciously Dependent. Growing into the people we're created to be as we join God to incite love, reduce suffering, and increase joy. Find out more at tnl.org.
The Book of James, Part 5: Wisdom is Gentle. Growing into the people we're created to be as we join God to incite love, reduce suffering, and increase joy. Find out more at tnl.org.
The Book of James, Part 4: Your Tongue Can Be Fire. Your words reveal the condition of your heart. Growing into the people we're created to be as we join God to incite love, reduce suffering, and increase joy. Find out more at tnl.org.
The Book of James, Part 3: Faith Without Works Is Dead. Do James and Paul contradict each other? Growing into the people we're created to be as we join God to incite love, reduce suffering, and increase joy. Find out more at tnl.org.
The Book of James, Part 2: Mercy Trumps Judgement. Growing into the people we're created to be as we join God to incite love, reduce suffering, and increase joy. Find out more at tnl.org.
The Book of James, Part 1: Introductions. Growing into the people we're created to be as we join God to incite love, reduce suffering, and increase joy. Find out more at tnl.org.
The posture of our hearts determines how we use our power. Growing into the people we're created to be as we join God to incite love, reduce suffering, & increase joy. Find out more at tnl.org.
Eastertide 2024 Part 4: Growing into the people we're created to be as we join God to incite love, reduce suffering, & increase joy. Find out more at tnl.org.
Eastertide 2024 Part 3: Love God & Love Others TNL Church: Joining God to incite love, reduce suffering, & increase joy. Find out more at tnl.org.
Eastertide 2024 Part 2: ...And We Hope You Don't Stay the Same. TNL Church: Joining God to incite love, reduce suffering, & increase joy. Find out more at tnl.org.
Eastertide 2024 Part 1: You're Accepted Here Just As You Are. Why do we say this every week? TNL Church: Joining God to incite love, reduce suffering, & increase joy. Find out more at tnl.org.
Lent 2024 Part 6: Giving Up Grudges. Holding grudges—allowing resentment to fester into bitterness—only hurts us and stunts our growth. God has given us the most powerful, counter-cultural, revolutionary tool to deal with resentment and bitterness in forgiveness. Forgiveness he first extends to us that we then need to extend to others so we can find healing and rest for our souls; so that we're not consumed nor stunted; so we can grow into the people he created us to be; so we can show the world what he is like. TNL Church: Joining God to incite love, reduce suffering, & increase joy. Find out more at tnl.org.
Lent 2024 Part 5: Giving Up Gluttony. Gluttony is about escaping our lives through consumption, indulgence, and seeking pleasure; it looks a lot more like being controlled than being in control. TNL Church: Joining God to incite love, reduce suffering, & increase joy. Find out more at tnl.org.
Lent 2024 Part 4: Giving Up Busyness. Busyness is a way for us to appear full of life while completely avoiding real life. TNL Church: Joining God to incite love, reduce suffering, & increase joy. Find out more at tnl.org.
Lent 2024 Part 3: Apathy - A Wake-Up Call. Apathy is an understandable defense mechanism to protect ourselves when life becomes too overwhelming or painful...but it's no way to live. TNL Church: Joining God to incite love, reduce suffering, & increase joy. Find out more at tnl.org.
Lent 2024 Part 2: Giving Up Worry. Chronic/Obsessive Worry is an addiction to thought patterns that–in the moment–help us feel in control of that which is outside of our control. In the long term, these thought patterns only add more worry and anxiety, while robbing us of rest and connection to God. TNL Church: Joining God to incite love, reduce suffering, & increase joy. Find out more at tnl.org.
Lent 2024 Part 1: Giving Up Perfectionism. Perfectionism is a way of manipulating others into giving us approval in the hopes it'll convince us we're valuable; but it never works and only leaves us isolated from others, including God. TNL Church: Joining God to incite love, reduce suffering, & increase joy. Find out more at tnl.org.
Lent 2024 Part 0: Come All You Weary. What hinders you from finding rest for your soul? TNL Church: Joining God to incite love, reduce suffering, & increase joy. Find out more at https://tnl.org.
Epiphany 2024 Part 5: Absence & Love. Jesus love for his friends leads him to remain absent from them in the story of Lazarus' resurrection. Why? TNL Church: Joining God to incite love, reduce suffering, & increase joy. Find out more at tnl.org.
Epiphany 2024 Part 4: God Sees Us, God Comes to Us. Our transcendent and yet personal God wants to come to us, to be known, and to use the chaos of life to transform us. TNL Church: Joining God to incite love, reduce suffering, & increase joy. Find out more at tnl.org.
Epiphany 2024 Part 3: Remembrance is the Key to Recognizing God. When we forget what God's done in the past, we fail to recognize him in the present. TNL Church: Joining God to incite love, reduce suffering, & increase joy. Find out more at tnl.org.