Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow 5/8

Galileo 127 Years from Now. Rev. Tyler Araki is preaching. From Tyler: “Nothing lasts forever, not even our beloved church. But what if it’s for the best, happiest reasons? What if we have done Justice, Kindness, Beauty, Real Relationships, and Whatever it Took- as much as possible? It’s so hard to imagine any of that being true, but it’s what we’re working towards, and God willing, someday we will have completely done what we set out to do- building just a bit of the Kingdom of God in our community.”

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Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow 3/8

Galileo at the End of the World.

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Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow 2/8

Galileo in (Another) Ten Years. Katie is preaching. It’s likely that our ancestors exaggerated the success of their earliest attempts at doing church – the same way are tempted to do, when we look back with nostalgia. (“All church planters lie,” I’ve been heard to say.) But embedded in the exaggeration is a grain of truth. What are the grains of truth they’ll be telling about us in another decade?

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Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow 1/8

Galileo in 40 Years. Josh Bridges-Hickey is preaching.

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Easter Sunday 2023

Hey, guess what? He’s alive! (But what does it mean that the powers-that-be still want to disappear him? And who else would they disappear, if they could?)

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Palm Sunday 2023

The Sixth Sunday in Lent is Palm & Passion Sunday. It starts with Hosannas and goes downhill from there. After our palm parade, we read the entire account of Jesus’s last week in Jerusalem, including his arrest, trial, guilty verdict, and state execution. We paused to reflect that maybe Palm Sunday doesn’t mean what we thought, and maybe hair care means more than we thought.

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We're Gonna Need a Bigger Boat 5/5

Today’s trouble is enough for today. Well now Jesus is picking a fight with me – all his glib talk about not worrying, about being more like a daisy or a sparrow than a real live human being with real live problems – a mortgage, a boss, a gender-diverse kid in a state that’s not safe, and so much more. Why does he provoke us with this “don’t worry, be happy” talk? What kind of life is he calling us to?

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We're Gonna Need a Bigger Boat 4/5

Picking a fight with “the hypocrites.” Who are they, “the hypocrites” that Jesus repeatedly says are not to be emulated? And – what is the difference between public piety vs. public witness? How easy is it to mistake religious expression for the justice God hopes we hunger for?

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We're Gonna Need a Bigger Boat 3/5

Blessed are the Dumbfucks. Perhaps a reprise of a sermon from several years ago? Jesus builds his team with losers and fuckups, and the blessings just keep coming. Can he be serious? Can we?

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We're Gonna Need a Bigger Boat 2/5

No time to lay low. “When Jesus heard that John had been arrested…” There are lots of ways this story could go from here. It would be smart to keep your head down, stay off the radar of the powers that be. But Jesus starts building his organization, and traveling in a pack of broken- down riffraff who love him, but can’t protect him.

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We're Gonna Need a Bigger Boat 1/5

The power to get more power. The temptation of Jesus in the desert can be read many ways, but what if we read it through the lens of using power to acquire more power? What if here Jesus is already demonstrating his unwillingness to work this system, to play the odds, to win friends and market share? We can imagine that his “yes” to any of these trials would have yielded a “successful” ministry…right?

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Praying in a Crowded House 5/6

Praying to Confess. Sometimes the mess we’re in is one of our own making, and we know it. We have to ask for help, but not without confessing that we’re reaping what we sowed. There remains a sense that, no matter how despicable or dumb we’ve been, God is ready to hear our confession and respond with kindness.

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Praying in a Crowded House 6/6

Praying to Celebrate. A rescue from danger, a victory in battle, a recovery from illness, a reprieve from all manner of heartache – these are occasions to say out loud that, at least for today, “God is in God’s heaven and all is right with the world!” Alleluia!

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Praying in a Crowded House 4/6

Praying to Complain. Sometimes our lived experience leads us to think God has forgotten us, or just isn’t paying attention – like we’ve been more faithful than God has been in this relationship. And, when it’s our fellow human beings who are causing our distress, we want God to hate them as much as we do. It adds to our distress to think that God might not. Prayers like this are part of sacred scripture. God is ready to hear these accusations from us.

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Praying in a Crowded House 3/6

Praying to Cry. The typical “psalm of lament” involves a recontextualization of suffering. There is the fact of our suffering, held up alongside our trust in God – neither negates or obviates the other. Both things can be true: we suffer, and we trust in God to relieve suffering.

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Praying in a Crowded House 2/6

Praying to Remember and Hope. We have inherited our ancestors’ experiences of God’s presence and power, and one form of prayer is a recitation of God’s faithfulness in the past. Our communal memories are not “proof,” exactly; but they are testimony of what God has already done as fuel for our hope in what God will do.

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Praying in a Crowded House 1/6

Praying to Awaken. Sometimes our eyes are wide open to notice the presence and power of God in this beloved world (and sometimes they’re not). There is a way of prayer that simply lets God know that we get it, and we appreciate it, and are wowed by it. And by praying our awakening, we become more and more attuned to the world, and thus have more content for these awakening prayers…it’s a virtuous cycle.

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Emergence 7/7

What are you afraid of? Herod is “frightened” (2:3) of Jesus’s identity, and thus imagines violence as a solution, the elimination of Jesus’s presence from his world. But what God has ordained cannot be erased. Think of the attempts at “erasure” of LGBTQ+ folx – book-banning, prohibiting medical care, threats to roll back marriage equality, and more. These will not work; even if violence ensues, God’s purposes will not be thwarted.

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Emergence 6/7

We see it again and again in scripture: those who greet God’s presence in the world with open-minded curiosity are rewarded for their inquiry. The astrologers from the east are not converted to Christianity; they return home with no expectation that their “homage” will become religious devotion. Thus they are integral to our understanding of Jesus’s identity as a cosmic savior beyond the bounds of Christian adherence.

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Emergence 5/7

The birth of Jesus takes place in a framework that requires Joseph to rethink his status as a devout, law-keeping, religionist. From the beginning, in other words, Jesus’s arrival has pressed against religious convention, requiring us to be imaginative, humble, courageous, and open in order to be faithful.

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