Blue Ocean Church Ann Arbor Sunday Sermons
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25 Jul 2021 | Wanderings: A Spirituality Suited to Uncertainty
18 Jul 2021 | Jonah in the Belly
11 Jul 2021 | The Emotions of Big Transitions
04 Jul 2021 | In a Big Transition, Increase Your Stores of Trust
27 Jun 2021 | Putting the Puzzle Together
20 Jun 2021 | The Dead Sea Rejuvenated: An Image of Thriving After Adversity
13 Jun 2021 | Taking Stock as a Siege Recedes
06 Jun 2021 | The Vine and the Branches
30 May 2021 | The Physical-Emotional-Ethical-Mystical Logic of Ritual
23 May 2021 | Holy Spirit—All the Truth
16 May 2021 | Soul Incubation
09 May 2021 | Attachment Bond Spirituality
02 May 2021 | The Spirit Intercedes
25 Apr 2021—Fire from Heaven? I Object!
18 Apr 2021 | Jesus Feeds the 5,000
11 Apr 2021 | The Resurrection Appearance Feeling Cloud
04 Apr 2021 | Hope Begins In the Dark
28 Mar 2021 | The Palm Sunday Mixed-Emotion Cocktail
21 Mar 2021 | Alone
14 Mar 2021 | Seeds for Thought: Expressing Emotion through Imagination
07 Mar 2021 | The Mixed Feelings We Might Have About Praise
28 Feb 2021 | After Evangelicalism: A Path to a New Christianity
21 Feb 2021 | Cultivating Wonder
14 Feb 2021 | Divine Wisdom: At Ease With Our Need to Find Out for Ourselves
07 Feb 2021 | Consolations From Qoheleth
31 Jan 2021 | Cohelet (Ecclesiastes): Patron Saint of the Disillusioned
24 Jan 2021 | My Own Vine and Fig Tree
17 Jan 2021 | Words of an Ancient Prophet to Our Emotional Distress
10 Jan 2020 | God with Us in Our Turmoil
Dr. Harold Trulear from Howard University speaks on Psalm 23, the paralyzing effect of fear, and God’s presence with us in the midst of turmoil—all in the context of the […]
03 Jan 2021 | Lessons from the Magi Story
27 Dec 2020 | St. Nicholas Stories and Traditions
20 Dec 2020 | How to Talk to Ourselves in Such a Time as This
13 Dec 2020 | Word Made Flesh
  The incarnation is a mystery that pulls us in to awe and wonder. Christ entered in to experience humanity in all its vulnerability. Mary, the archetype of the feminine […]
06 Dec 2020 | A Bedtime Prayer: Hear, O Israel, the Lord Our God is One
  Today, we continue our discussion of bedtime prayer rituals, and explore a Jewish prayer that begins in Deuteronomy 6:4, “Hear, O Israel, the Lord Our God is One.” A […]
29 Nov 2020 | Advent: A Portal into Hope
We are preparing for a “long, difficult winter ahead”—a time when Advent takes on more significance. Advent is a season of spiritual practices that offer a portal into hope. Today […]
22 Nov 2020 | Thanksgiving & Greetings to the Natural World
One of our more complicated national holidays is coming up this week. It can be hard for us as followers of Jesus to figure out how to handle a holiday […]
15 Nov 2020 | Blue Ocean Membership and a Faith-Journey Story
Ken gives an update on newcomers and becoming a members during our virtual mode and we hear a faith journey story from Amy MacNeil, connecting to Blue Ocean from Indiana. […]
08 Nov 2020 | It’s Okay to Celebrate
We enjoy a lighter sermon today, talking about how to help our bodies process emotions that lead to exhaustion and burnout. Learn more about Blue Ocean Church at a2blue.org, watch […]
01 Nov 2020 | Elections Survival Psalm Mediation
Trees figure prominently in indigenous and Hebrew spirituality. Those who “don’t walk in the counsel of the wicked” are regarded as trees by streams of water whose roots run deep, […]
25 Oct 2020 | Pre-Election Psalm
We all have election distress. Much election talk is analysis, and doesn’t help us metabolize the anger, fear, hope, and other emotions that we carry. For that an ancient prayer, […]
18 Oct 2020 | The Greatest Story is that All Life is One
Environmental scientist Carl Safina, author of Becoming Wild, on The Greatest Story is that All Life is One. At the end of Dr. Safina’s talk, join Cassie in a […]
11 Oct 2020 | Communion Table: Peace Through Justice
With such a strong anti-Empire streak, it’s not surprising that our most common ritual speaks to that. We talk about various ways it does so. Learn more about Blue […]
04 Oct 2020 | It Feels Like the Apocalypse!
The idea of apocalypse (which means, “unveiling”) is used most often in the Bible in relation to the fall of Empires or to significant historical shifts. We talk about how […]
27 Sep 2020 | Jesus and Empire
When religion seeks power and tries to use Empire to further its gains, it becomes counter-Jesus. Learn more about Blue Ocean Church at a2blue.org, watch virtual service recordings, and […]
20 Sep 2020 | We Could Use a G-d of Becoming Right Now
The voice from the burning bush was a God of Becoming: I WILL BE WHO I WILL BE. Just what Moses and the people of Israel needed—a dynamic, not a […]
13 Sep 2020 | Jesus Had the Family Blues Too
National religious-cultural politics created a hostile environment for Jesus in his village and in his family. He had to cut off family ties for a time and experience kinship with […]
06 Sep 2020 | Why We Say Kin-dom of God
We talk about why we use the term kin-dom of God instead of kingdom of God, influenced by Mujerista and indigenous American theologians. Learn more about Blue Ocean Church at […]
30 Aug 2020 | Holding Space for Each Other
Offering midrash on Jesus’s response to Peter, “Get away from me, Satan,” AnaYelsi asks us to ponder what it means when traumatized people and groups interact with one another, and […]
23 Aug 2020 | Exodus and Its Most Bizarre Episode
The ancients told certain truths in myth form—like the truths that come to us in dreams, which don’t abide by the rules of the waking world. And one of the […]
16 Aug 2020 | A Burning Bush Moment
When Moses saw a bush burning in the wilderness, his whole life became about freeing an enslaved people from oppression and reimagining a world away from injustice. His questions and […]