1 Corinthians 1:18-25 On this April Fools Day eve, we will acknowledge how ridiculous our faith story seems on some level, and yet we cannot imagine living with any other story. This foolish story is the beginning of hope and faith, and the means of tru

Matthew 5:43-48; Matthew 26:14-25, 47-50 This week we confront Jesus teaching that we should love our enemies, and we also confront the reality that loving our enemies is not a safe thing to do. It very well may lead to our own profound loss. To what ex

Luke 15: 11-32; Matthew 5:38-42 The prodigal son story and the turn the other cheek teaching show that foolish love ignores offenses and just seeks to love, and love abundantly. Note: the definition of prodigal is wastefully extravagant. Prodigal is bett

Mark 17:1-17, John 2:1-11Casting demons into pigs to save one person and saving the best wine for last both prove that foolish love creates a tremendous amount of waste wasteful grace.

Matthew 20:1-16, 18:12-13The parable of the workers in the vineyard and the story of the 99 sheep left behind for the sake of the 1 show us that foolish love is not an equitable equation. It is not a

Mark 7:24-29; Luke 13:10-17This week we will look at how love inspires us to break the rules. We will center not only in the stories of the Syrophoenician and bent over women, but also in the story o

Matthew 5:21-24, 18:21-35Looking at these 2 teachings about Jesus forgiving someone multiple times and the servant who does not forgive the debt of his fellow servant, we will start to understand how

1 Corinthians 13:4-8To set the scene for this series, we will look at this definition of love given in this letter of Pauls. As this series is meant to help people understand how better to love like

Mark 14:1-9The act of the woman who anoints Jesus is characterized as wasteful. What if it is instead an act of confidence that the reign will provide? There will always be enough to take care of the

Mark 10:17-31, 12:41-44Where is our security? For the rich man, it seems like it was in his assurance in how the world was supposed to work, and in his belief that his stuff would keep him safe. The