Swimming Lessons: A Deep Dive into Culture
Swimming Lessons, Week 7: Osheta Moore
Osheta Moore is a writer and podcaster, mother and wife, and international speaker on subjects of peacemaking and racial righteousness. She is author of Shalom Sistas: Living Wholehearted in a Brokenhearted World (Harold Press, 2017) and her work has been featured in spaces such as Sojourners, SheLoves Magazine, A Deeper Story, The Art of Simple, ReKnew, and Rachel Held Evans’s blog. You can connect with her work at Osheta.com and ShalomSistas.com
Pentecost: A Different Kind of Power
Pentecost Sunday is an opportunity for Jesus-disciples to turn once again toward God and ask for God’s Spirit to fill us, empower us, and send us. In this message, Pastor T. C. will focus on the nature of the “power” Jesus-disciples receive from God, the receptive posture necessary, how to know we are being caught up in the Holy Spirit and not some other spirit, and the purpose of the Spirit’s empowerment: witness.
Swimming Lessons, Week 6: Der Lor
Der Lor has held ministry and worship leadership roles at two large churches in Wisconsin. As a pastor and theologian, Der loves learning about the contextual nature of theology and its implications for God’s ethnically diverse people. As a worship leader, Der loves ushering God’s diverse people together in Christ and pointing them back to their Creator as a new humanity. Der has spoken at conferences on topics relating to multi-ethnic ministry, musical worship, and racial/ethnic identity and Christian faith. Der is…
Swimming Lessons, Week 5: “Culture and Identity in Christ”
God’s redemptive mission began in earnest through the covenant cut with Abraham and his family who will become Israel. God was restoring the blessing and calling given to humanity in the beginning. God was restoring the shalom, the right-relatedness between God and humanity and between peoples. Right-relatedness was restored between Abraham and God through Abraham’s faith, trust, and allegiance. All this preceded the giving of Torah. By the time Jesus enters the story of God’s redemptive mission, Torah-observance marks off…
Swimming Lessons, Week 4: “The Rise of Babylon”
The fourth sermon in the “Swimming Lessons” teaching series entitled “The Rise of Babylon,” this message presents an interpretation of the “Tower of Babel” story in Genesis chapter 11 as the genesis of empire and cultural captivity. This message challenges viewers to examine the ways we capitulate or participate in cultural captivity. How many times have you heard that Pentecost “reversed the curse” of Babel? Did you know that the word “curse” never appears in the story? What if diversity…
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