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What Gets Born Out of Failure? Out of a string of failure, good things can be born. Gen. 5:30 Secrets Heaven 536

Mistakes on the Journey Home In life over the course of the years, for most people arrive at few key "knowns". Mistakes are every bit as important on this journey as failures. Gen. 5 Secrets Heaven 468

Trusting Our Gut Can we really trust our gut? Gen. 5:23 Secrets Heaven 521

5 Ideas that Could Change Your Life Creation Never Ends Creation is eternal and perpetual. Everything then is in a sense of movement and growth… including us! 8/7/22

Is There Any Way to be Comfortable with Change?

How Do Love and Truth Connect I had a conversation with Scarlett Lewis...

The Case for Simple Life too complicated? Try a simple heart. Gen. 6:6 Secrets of Heaven 589

What is Beneath the Surface? Often love lies beneath anger. Gen. 6:6 Secrets of Heaven 587

The Importance of Not Knowing Sometimes our biggest challenges come from what we "know." Gen. 6 Secrets of Heaven 586

5 Ideas that Could Change Your Life Love Above All Else A key Christian New Church concept is that we are to “Love above all the other commandments.” Seeing God in others even in the darker corners of our lives. 7/31/2022

It's good that we're different! A complex machine like a car or a computer needs many different parts working in tandem to accomplish amazing things. God intends for the human race to be the ultimate complex machine—all of us working together using our different skills, minds, and hearts to accomplish the ultimate goal: the happiness of all. 7/24/2022 with Curtis Childs

What is True Beauty? - 10 Minutes of Calm Beauty in heaven comes down to one word... thoughtfulness. Secrets of Heaven 553

Living Through Other People's Eyes We often do just that. Yet peace in living in the world as God sees it. Secrets of Heaven 549

Good Competition/Bad Competition "Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles. And let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us." Hebrews 12:1

How Can We Stop Pretending? Happiness can be found in shared joy, shared struggle, but not in projections. Secrets of Heaven 549

Contentment Should we aspire do to nothing, or should we aspire to contentment? Secrets of Heaven 452

A New Kind of Creative We often imagine creativity as an "above-it-all" thing - a individual vision from the mountaintop. But there is a spiritual creativity to be found at the bottom, in the concrete. Secrets of Heaven 452

Connecting on the Ground Floor - 10 Minutes of Calm We can often see faith as "higher than", as elevation or altitude. Maybe parts of faith are "higher than", but the heart of faith is much more connected to the ground floor. Secrets of Heaven 451

Never a Complete Success. Never a Complete Failure. - 10 Minutes of Calm We tend to sort life into events that are either a complete success or a complete success. Let's find a more nuanced way to hold things. Gen. 4:24 Secrets of Heaven 433

How Do Faith and Forgiveness Go Together? Faith and forgiveness come together in surprising ways. Gen. 4:24 Secrets of Heaven 433

Immediately and Forever An aspiration way to see forgiveness ... immediately and forever. Gen. 4:24 Secrets of Heaven 433

Angels are with us from the very beginning of scripture and from the very beginning of our lives. They bring creativity, inspiration and comfort. Let's talk about that blessed work, how angels weave their way into our lives. 7/10/2022

Tattoo You God leaves a mark even on the broken parts. What does that mark say? "Love above all the other commandments." Gen. 4:15 Secrets of Heaven 396

Cleaning Out the Closet With God, there will often be glimmers of light at the bottom of all things - including the hard things. Our job? Clean out the closet. Gen. 4:19 Secrets of Heaven 408

Using Those Difficult Parts as a Seed - 10 Minutes of Calm

What is the best arrangement for a human life? Join Curtis Childs as we explore the three universal categories of love and how we can prioritize them within ourselves in harmony with God’s design. 7/3/2022

What Can We Do About the Mean People in Our Lives? Sometimes the best we can do is this - if we can't love someone - we can send our love TO them. Gen. 4:13 Secrets of Heaven 383

Contrasting Opposites Contrasting opposites, like negative space in art, helps us to see. It is a way towards peace. Gen. 4:12 Secrets of Heaven 380

A Way Past Distraction Much of the time the chatter in our brains can feel like a curse. How do we move past it? Gen. 4:12 Secrets of Heaven 380

The Secret Prayers of Ruby Bridges Sharing stories in life matters a great deal. Let's share one today.

Faith Has a Purpose It takes little to actually know the truth, to have a knowledge of faith. Yet faith has a deeper purpose. Gen. 4:11 Secrets of Heaven 379

We look for "eureka" moments, where the longing for an answer leads to an insight. Join Pastor Chuck and Curtis Childs for a "eureka" moment around faith. 6/26/2022

From the beginning of creation we are consistently reminded that God is with us. When we remember that God is with us we are reminded that others are with us too. This powerful imagery is how we work our way out of isolation and into lifegiving community. 6/19/2022

In our journeys we will find most often that we need more people to travel with us versus less. That was true thousands of years ago as Moses wrestled with the loneliness of leadership. How can we learn to engage others, to celebrate their gifts, and make the world a better place? 6/12/2022

How do we differentiate between being alone vs solitude? Feelings of isolation, disconnection and loneliness are more prevalent than ever. This week we explore how to combat those feelings and to find ways to reach out and to connect with others. As Dorothy Day puts it "We have all known the long loneliness and the only solution is love and that love comes with community" 6/5/2022

Through a life of commitment and dedication, there will be inevitable challenges to those things we deeply treasure. How do we react? How do we deal with the setbacks we all face? How do we commit and accept the costs of commitment? 5/29/2022

It’s important for us to think about how our lives will move forward. Will love carry us? Knowledge? Intellect? Maybe it is all three put in the right order - love in the end generating its own wisdom. 5/22/2022

Gratitude greatly simplifies our life. And here is the trick - it is not about gratitude somehow attached to "more." It is instead learning how to be grateful "with." That kind of gratitude builds presence and courage. 5/15/2022

We all know that in the long run people value experiences more than things. How then do we learn to recalibrate, valuing memories more than the material? 5/8/2022

We navigate life not out of knowing how the whole journey will go, but instead using a few key coordinates. What’s your true North? 5/1/22

"Let there be light." With those words, God creates not physical light, but spiritual light within each of us. At this service we'll be learning to see ourselves in the days of the Creation story, tracing God's tireless work to take each of us from being "without form and void" to becoming the kind of heavenly person that is truly a resting place for God. 4/24/22

Join us for this inspiring family service as we celebrate Easter Sunday together! 4/17/22

This week, we look at two events - happening side-by-side - a trial and a story of denial. While we know our lives must be grounded in hope and joy, we also know we are human. God meets us there. 4/10/22

Part of the celebration of Easter is actually allowing ourselves to enter quieter, more reflective places. What might we hear from God there? 4/3/22

Every person is a treasure, and totally worthy of love. Remembering that when they just cut in and stole the parking space you wanted? That can get tricky. We'll look at three simple, practical, yet profound techniques for seeing everyone through God's eyes. 3/27/22

Social media often forces us to chase a beauty that is at best elusive. How do we find a way to be centered on a view of ourselves grounded in God’s love? 3/20/22

When someone we love takes their life it fills us with heartbreak and tenderness. Join us as we gently hold this topic together. **Due to the sensitive nature of the topic for this week, we want to communicate ahead of time about this week’s service, “Stay”, where we will discuss the tender subject of suicide. We encourage you to make the best decision for you and your family if this is a service that may not be suitable for you at this time.** The National Suicide Prevention Lifeline: 1-800-273-8255 3/13/22

Join us this Sunday as we look at the universal experience of grieving. Grief is something many of us have experienced. As Anne Lamott puts it, "They live forever in your broken heart that doesn't seal back up...It's like having a broken leg that never heals perfectly - that still hurts when the weather gets cold, but you learn to dance with the limp." Come hear how others have learned to dance through life celebrating the loved ones they have lost. 3/6/22

Join us for a message on shifting our frame of reference. One that can feel radical at times, but ultimately transformative and life-giving. 2/27/22

We can confuse “clarity” with “purity.” God does not offer a “pure” world. What He offers us is a good world. 2/20/22