Wiki Jesus: How to Everything 3/8

How to Start a Church. Jesus jumps into his ministry with (1) a declaration of gospel (the dawning of death-defying light!); (2) a clear call for help; and (3) the willingness to go where they need him most. That’s how we do it, folks. This is how we’re still doing it. Tyler Araki is preaching.

To tell us your thoughts on this sermon, click through to the web posting and leave us a comment. Or, find us on social media: Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. Or, email us the old-fashioned way: info@galileochurch.org. To contribute financially to the ongoing ministry of Galileo Church, find us on Venmo, Patreon, or PayPal, or just send a check to 6563 Teague Rd., Fort Worth, TX 76140.

Wiki Jesus: How to Everything 2/8

How to get everyone’s attention. Say a public and plain “yes” to what God wants, as Jesus does in his baptism “to fulfill all righteousness,” and you’ll have the attention of the Enemy as well. We live in a world saturated with not-God possibilities, as Jesus did. It doesn’t get easier just because we’re with him.

To tell us your thoughts on this sermon, click through to the web posting and leave us a comment. Or, find us on social media: Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. Or, email us the old-fashioned way: info@galileochurch.org. To contribute financially to the ongoing ministry of Galileo Church, find us on Venmo, Patreon, or PayPal, or just send a check to 6563 Teague Rd., Fort Worth, TX 76140.

Wiki Jesus: How to Everything 1/8

How to tell the truth. Christmas can be a sentimental season. There are no carols about the “slaughter of the innocents,” at least not in Protestant experience. But Matthew won’t leave us with a gauzy manger scene in a startlingly clean barn; he has an accompanying memory in mind that must have its say. We’re reminded of another Matthean warning, coming later: “From the days of John the Baptist until now the kingdom of heaven has suffered violence, and the violent take it by force” (Matthew 11:12).

To tell us your thoughts on this sermon, click through to the web posting and leave us a comment. Or, find us on social media: Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. Or, email us the old-fashioned way: info@galileochurch.org. To contribute financially to the ongoing ministry of Galileo Church, find us on Venmo, Patreon, or PayPal, or just send a check to 6563 Teague Rd., Fort Worth, TX 76140.

Drum Roll, Please! (pa rum pa pum pum) 6/6

Home By Another Way. Gentiles welcome (and protect) the toddler Jesus; the eternal Christ welcomes (and saves) Gentiles. Human destinies intertwined; we are included! Thanks be to God!

Drum Roll, Please! (pa rum pa pum pum) 5/6

God’s logos/logic, walking around. God-in-the-flesh. Gasp!  

To tell us your thoughts on this sermon, click through to the web posting and leave us a comment. Or, find us on social media: Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. Or, email us the old-fashioned way: info@galileochurch.org. To contribute financially to the ongoing ministry of Galileo Church, find us on Venmo, Patreon, or PayPal, or just send a check to 6563 Teague Rd., Fort Worth, TX 76140.

Drum Roll, Please! (pa rum pa pum pum) 4/6

Contemplate Your Mortality. Jesus Did. Those who are born must die; this is the human experience. And those who must die, must suffer – “Life is pain, highness. Anyone who says differently is selling something.” This gift of solidarity Jesus gives us is total, the complete experience of life as a human creature.

To tell us your thoughts on this sermon, click through to the web posting and leave us a comment. Or, find us on social media: Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. Or, email us the old-fashioned way: info@galileochurch.org. To contribute financially to the ongoing ministry of Galileo Church, find us on Venmo, Patreon, or PayPal, or just send a check to 6563 Teague Rd., Fort Worth, TX 76140.

Drum Roll, Please! (pa rum pa pum pum) 3/6

The Rev. Shannon Moore joins us again! This time he is preaching from Matthew 25:31-46. What are we supposed to do with this damn sheep-and-goats story?

To tell us your thoughts on this sermon, click through to the web posting and leave us a comment. Or, find us on social media: Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. Or, email us the old-fashioned way: info@galileochurch.org. To contribute financially to the ongoing ministry of Galileo Church, find us on Venmo, Patreon, or PayPal, or just send a check to 6563 Teague Rd., Fort Worth, TX 76140.

Drum Roll, Please! (pa rum pa pum pum) 2/6

Jesus With a Blowtorch? John the Baptist says Jesus will “gather the wheat, burn the chaff” – perhaps subconsciously making the point that wheat and chaff co-exist on the same plant, are part of the same organism; and as such the metaphor refers to the whole person, part wheat, part chaff – that’s me! What John doesn’t know (?) is that Jesus will accomplish this purification of persons with deeply human/e kindness, rather than scorching criticism and condemnation.

To tell us your thoughts on this sermon, click through to the web posting and leave us a comment. Or, find us on social media: Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. Or, email us the old-fashioned way: info@galileochurch.org. To contribute financially to the ongoing ministry of Galileo Church, find us on Venmo, Patreon, or PayPal, or just send a check to 6563 Teague Rd., Fort Worth, TX 76140.

Drum Roll, Please! (pa rum pa pum pum) 1/6

Son of Man, Son of Women. Jesus descends from a long line of women whose experiences fall outside the bounds of “family values.” Tamar’s, Ruth’s, Rahab’s, and Bathsheba’s stories are the opposite of the “purity” narrative of Mary’s perpetual virginity, or Anne’s immaculate conception; and maybe the gift here is that you’re not so dirty after all?

To tell us your thoughts on this sermon, click through to the web posting and leave us a comment. Or, find us on social media: Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. Or, email us the old-fashioned way: info@galileochurch.org. To contribute financially to the ongoing ministry of Galileo Church, find us on Venmo, Patreon, or PayPal, or just send a check to 6563 Teague Rd., Fort Worth, TX 76140.

We're Gonna Need More Forks: Jesus's Jesus’s Crowded Table in Stories from Luke 8/8

ATPSDKWL (that’s All Time Preaching Sub During Katie's Writing Leave, don’tcha know) Rev. Shannon Moore is back with us to give Katie a week off to write! This week he’s preaching from Luke 21:5-19 to wrap up the current series. But while “We’re Gonna Need More Forks” is ending, its heart will go on.

To tell us your thoughts on this sermon, click through to the web posting and leave us a comment. Or, find us on social media: Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. Or, email us the old-fashioned way: info@galileochurch.org. To contribute financially to the ongoing ministry of Galileo Church, find us on Venmo, Patreon, or PayPal, or just send a check to 6563 Teague Rd., Fort Worth, TX 76140.

We're Gonna Need More Forks: Jesus's Jesus’s Crowded Table in Stories from Luke 7/8

Look for the Widows. God has a peculiar preference for widows; Jesus is especially sympathetic to them. Who are they? How are they like us, not like us? 

To tell us your thoughts on this sermon, click through to the web posting and leave us a comment. Or, find us on social media: Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. Or, email us the old-fashioned way: info@galileochurch.org. To contribute financially to the ongoing ministry of Galileo Church, find us on Venmo, Patreon, or PayPal, or just send a check to 6563 Teague Rd., Fort Worth, TX 76140.

We're Gonna Need More Forks: Jesus's Jesus’s Crowded Table in Stories from Luke 6/8

What is the Gospel According to Queer Eye, in the context of our economy? Well, just take a listen...

To tell us your thoughts on this sermon, click through to the web posting and leave us a comment. Or, find us on social media: Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. Or, email us the old-fashioned way: info@galileochurch.org. To contribute financially to the ongoing ministry of Galileo Church, find us on Venmo, Patreon, or PayPal, or just send a check to 6563 Teague Rd., Fort Worth, TX 76140.

We’re Gonna Need More Forks: Jesus’s Crowded Table in Stories from Luke 5/8

We loved Rev. Shannon Moore so much, we brought him back! This week we are wrestling with a story from Luke that can feel really, really icky. What Rev. Moore does with the passage is really fascinating, as is the following communion reflection from co-conspirator Eleanor Garrett-Grimsley. This one is gonna make you think.

To tell us your thoughts on this sermon, click through to the web posting and leave us a comment. Or, find us on social media: Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. Or, email us the old-fashioned way: info@galileochurch.org. To contribute financially to the ongoing ministry of Galileo Church, find us on Venmo, Patreon, or PayPal, or just send a check to 6563 Teague Rd., Fort Worth, TX 76140.

We’re Gonna Need More Forks: Jesus’s Crowded Table in Stories from Luke 4/8

Sometimes *Your* Table Is Jesus’s Table. There are cases where Jesus doesn’t really wait for you to come to him; he comes to you. Rev. Shannon Moore of University Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) in Fort Worth is preaching this week!

We’re Gonna Need More Forks: Jesus’s Crowded Table in Stories From Luke 3/8

Praying With Empty Hands. Like the widow who needs justice... Like the tax collector who pleads mercy... Like a child with nothing to offer. That’s how we pray. 

To tell us your thoughts on this sermon, click through to the web posting and leave us a comment. Or, find us on social media: Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. Or, email us the old-fashioned way: info@galileochurch.org. To contribute financially to the ongoing ministry of Galileo Church, find us on Venmo, Patreon, or PayPal, or just send a check to 6563 Teague Rd., Fort Worth, TX 76140.

We’re Gonna Need More Forks: Jesus’s Crowded Table in Stories from Luke 2/8

This Religion Is Very Big. These two stories, back to back, are a study in contrast – Jesus healing with compassion, Jesus ranting about the end-of-days – can they both be the same guy? Can we appreciate “both” Jesuses? Is our mental-emotional-spiritual capacity big enough to hold it all? 

To tell us your thoughts on this sermon, click through to the web posting and leave us a comment. Or, find us on social media: Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. Or, email us the old-fashioned way: info@galileochurch.org. To contribute financially to the ongoing ministry of Galileo Church, find us on Venmo, Patreon, or PayPal, or just send a check to 6563 Teague Rd., Fort Worth, TX 76140.

We're Gonna Need More Forks: Jesus's Crowded Table in Stories From Luke 1/8

How Money Shapes Identity. These parables about money, dis/honesty, generosity, wealth, and poverty, taken together with the audience of VRPs who are “lovers of money,” are typical of Luke’s Jesus, who thinks he can tell a lot about a person by how they deal with $$. 

To tell us your thoughts on this sermon, click through to the web posting and leave us a comment. Or, find us on social media: Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. Or, email us the old-fashioned way: info@galileochurch.org. To contribute financially to the ongoing ministry of Galileo Church, find us on Venmo, Patreon, or PayPal, or just send a check to 6563 Teague Rd., Fort Worth, TX 76140.

Keep Off the Grass: Deuteronomy's Freedom-In-Covenant: 6/6

Spiritual commitment has material consequences. We sometimes talk of Christian faith as a spiritualized, internal, privatized experience. But for ancestors, as for us, discipleship has externalized, material consequences. Our resources come under the command of God’s imagined future, and we practice little instances of the cosmic reign of God in our open-handed sharing of the fruit of our labor. Ashley Dargai preaches this week!

To tell us your thoughts on this sermon, click through to the web posting and leave us a comment. Or, find us on social media: Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. Or, email us the old-fashioned way: info@galileochurch.org. To contribute financially to the ongoing ministry of Galileo Church, find us on Venmo, Patreon, or PayPal, or just send a check to 6563 Teague Rd., Fort Worth, TX 76140.

Keep Off the Grass: Deuteronomy's Freedom-In-Covenant: 5/6

Listen, and don’t forget. The quickest way to idolatry is forgetfulness, and the myths of self-reliance and self-service that we put in place of God’s work on our behalf. The community that remembers where it came from, and how it got to where it is now, is powerful indeed.

To tell us your thoughts on this sermon, click through to the web posting and leave us a comment. Or, find us on social media: Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. Or, email us the old-fashioned way: info@galileochurch.org. To contribute financially to the ongoing ministry of Galileo Church, find us on Venmo, Patreon, or PayPal, or just send a check to 6563 Teague Rd., Fort Worth, TX 76140.

Keep Off the Grass: Deuteronomy's Freedom-In-Covenant: 4/6

We tend to take more than our share. We are hunter-gatherers, always on the lookout for more resources, comforts, pleasures for ourselves. Our wants compete powerfully with what God wants, at least in our own hearts. What recommendations (commandments!?) does God have for keeping us in good stead with our neighbors? And how does Jesus extend the trajectory? And what does any of that mean for us?