We seek and shelter spiritual refugees, rally health for all who come, and fortify every tender soul with the strength to follow Jesus into a life of world-changing service.
OUR MISSIONAL PRIORITIES:
1. We do justice for LGBTQ+ humans, and support the people who love them.
2. We do kindness for people with mental illness and in emotional distress, and celebrate neurodiversity.
3. We do beauty for our God-Who-Is-Beautiful.
4. We do real relationship, no bullshit, ever.
5. We do whatever it takes to share this good news with the world God still loves.
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Mail here: P.O. Box 668, Kennedale, TX 76060
Worship here: 5 pm CT Sundays; 5860 I-20 service road, Fort Worth 76119
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That's Jay, in the classy hat, on the right. Tarrant County Pride Parade 2016.
Jay the Intern, formerly known as Jay the Actuary, has some things to say about widows who press their claims... and who, in the end, sits down at Jesus’s table. Dang it, Jay!
We sent Ryan Felber on a year-long fellowship with XPLOR -- a program that helps young adult discover their gifts, and listen for God's calling. And then he came back to us, ready to serve our church in ministry. Thanks be to God!
God does not want your piety. Father Abraham said so. So what *does* God want?
"You cannot serve God and money."
You cannot serve God and race privilege.
You cannot serve God and class privilege.
You cannot serve God and cis-het privilege.
You cannot serve God and male privilege.
You cannot serve God and patriotism.
But what if, in the service of God, we could make any of those things serve us?
Take a look at those parables in the middle of Luke that aren't in the other gospels. They're strange and lovely. The Parables of Lost Things in Luke 15 are among our favorites, for good reason. What happened to that young man? Where is his mama?
Heaven = pearly gates, golden streets? Hell = fiery lake, eternal torment? Nah. It's "the day of the Lord" we're waiting for, living for, and Zephaniah wants to help us want what God wants.
Habakkuk has writer's block -- no word from the Lord to share. And that's problematic, if you're a prophet. Or maybe just if you're a person who wishes God would hurry the f*** up and make things right. The help you need to hang in there while you wait on s-l-o-o-o-w God -- that's what we're here for.
Oh, Jonah. Why you wanna be so mad at God?
Ministry intern Jenny Jacobson says what God really really wants is... well, little things, like justice, and kindness, and humility before God. And she says it in the loveliest way, with the prophet Micah's help.
Amos looks at economic inequity, the systemic brokenness wherein the poor get poorer and the rich are “cows of Bashan”, and says, “God really really doesn’t want that.” Are we, in our churches and in our politics, thinking and talking about poverty with the same passion? Why not?
Jay (our brand-new intern from Brite Divinity School) takes on Joel -- a contextless prophet whose mysterious identity leaves us with lots of interpretive choices. But while we're choosing, the earth is burning with wildfire, plague, drought, and famine. What does God think about that?
The “Minor” Prophets of the Hebrew Bible can see it -- what God really, really wants -- and they'll do just about anything to tell us what they see. Starting with Hosea, we'll let them have their say over seven potentially painful weeks.
This is my son, my beloved, in whom I am well pleased.
The queer, saving love of our queer, Samaritan God.
"Lambs among wolves," Jesus called his friends. We've been feeling a little lamb-ish ourselves. And what did he intend them/us to do about that? Remain as vulnerable as possible. Hope for hospitality. Share a table, share good news.
"Does it sound scary to set your face toward Jerusalem? Many of your fellow humans are in Jerusalem already." -- Christian Briones, our friend and guest preacher the Sunday after a week he called "a beating." Thanks for the good word on a hard Sunday, preacher.
What are you afraid of? In these stories from Luke, they're mostly afraid of Jesus. Not the storm, not the demons, but the messiah himself.
What better way to celebrate the 1-year anniversary of Obergefell v. Hodges than a Galileo wedding cake?
“A seed-sower sowed seeds sowingly in the seeded steppes,” Jesus says in a parable. The secrets—the mysteries—of God are being revealed and coming to light. “Can you hear me now?” Jesus asks. “Can you see it now?” It’s a hundred-fold harvest and boundless light.
All the names, all the dead. And the problem of Jesus, that woman, his feet, her hair, our sensibilities.
Orlando. Pulse. Homophobia. Hate. John the Baptist. Jesus. What do we say now?
Explaining intersectionality this way: "It’s like if the centurion and the widow of Nain had a baby, that baby would be us."