"formation" Tagged Sermons

"formation" Tagged Sermons

Practicing Family

Pastor T. C. continues the teaching series “The Church as Forged Family” with a message about how embodied practices forge family. Before we think of ourselves as family, and before we call ourselves family, we have to participate in family-forging practices.

I Find it Hard to Say by Lauryn Hill

In this message, Pastor T. C. talks about the themes of lament and formation for service in the midst of two epidemics: Covid-19 and Covid-1619 (the epidemic of anti-Black racism that has plagued the U.S. since the first slave ship arrived in 1619). The song for this week is “I Find it Hard to Say (Rebel)” by Lauryn Hill, from her “Unplugged” album. It was written after Amadou Diallo was killed by police in New York.

The Stories We Inhabit

This is the introduction sermon for the “Ears to Hear” teaching series on the parables of Jesus. We’re taking another look at these enigmatic stories with an ear toward what they might have to say to us today. Because we are not only daily being formed by the practices in which we participate, but we are also daily being formed by the stories we inhabit.