Monday, October 4, 2021 Dear Esperanza Family, I hope you’ve had the opportunity to start learning about our new program of church planning and growth. Last year, the theme was Hope Starts Here–breaking new ground as we transitioned between pastors …
I love language. The beautiful complexities and joyful absurdities of the phenomenon that is human language. I’ve studied linguistics from anthropological and sociological lenses; I’ve lived immersed in a language not my own (Swahili in Tanzania); I grew up surrounded …
Prayers Without Borders The girls of Afghanistan are as Our daughters, Dreading A life of being covered Head to toe In fear. The women of Afghanistan are as Our mothers, Fearful Of being silenced For song. I will breathe a …
God put the wiggle in children! Parents, do not feel you have to suppress it in God’s house. All are welcome! To the families of small children: We have created a special space for small children and their families. It’s …
I’ve heard more than one person describe the year 2020 as a “dumpster fire.” We have endured the pandemic and the divisive reactions to it and struggled to face our original sin of racism in the fabric of our society. …
Seventeenth Sunday after Pentecost Jeremiah 11:18-20 Wisdom 1:16-2:1, 12-22 Psalm 54 James 3:13-4:3, 7-8a Photo by Andrik Langfield on Upsplash
One of Jesus’s disciples, Andrew, Simon Peter’s brother, said to him, “There is a boy here who has five barley loaves and two fish. But what are they among so many people?” John 6:8-9 A large crowd was gathered around …
For four weeks we’ve been journeying through Chapter 6 of the Gospel of John: we saw Jesus feed over 5,000 people with just five loaves of bread and two fish, we heard Jesus say, “I AM the Bread of Life,” …
Jesus said, “I am the living bread that came down from heaven. Whoever eats this bread will live forever; and the bread that I will give for the life of the world is my flesh.” Many English versions of the …
What do you take with you for a long trip? How do you determine what the essentials are? How do you know what’s going to weigh you down and should be left behind? God in Christ gives us True Bread …
Jesus reaches out to those who came looking for him. He reveals the true bread of heaven, saying “I am the bread of life.” Do we look to heaven for our daily bread? Do we look to Jesus to fill us …
Esperanza begins a five-week sermon series this Sunday examining the Bread of Life story, told in the gospel of John. The question to chew on this week: Many of the messages we hear in this world are about scarcity. Where …