Galileo Church

We seek and shelter spiritual refugees, rally health for all who come, and fortify every tender soul with the strength to follow Jesus into a life of world-changing service.

5860 I-20 service road Fort Worth, TX 76119 USA

(682) 760-1274

OUR MISSIONAL PRIORITIES:

1. We do justice for LGBTQ+ humans, and support the people who love them.

2. We do kindness for people with mental illness and in emotional distress, and celebrate neurodiversity.

3. We do beauty for our God-Who-Is-Beautiful.

4. We do real relationship, no bullshit, ever.

5. We do whatever it takes to share this good news with the world God still loves.

Trying to find us IRL?
Mail here: P.O. Box 668, Kennedale, TX 76060
Worship here: 5 pm CT Sundays; 5860 I-20 service road, Fort Worth 76119

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SOUL FOOD FOR RIGHT NOW

June 15, 2025 - August 17, 2025

Let’s consider contemporary spiritual practices that nourish a healthy inner life and strengthen the connection between our hearts and God’s heart. How, in a season that feels so out of control, do we hold on to our agency, refusing to relinquish responsibility for our own wellbeing? How do make ourselves available to hear God’s Spirit through the cacophony shredding our attention into a million splinters?

Let’s return to our continuous read-through of Luke’s gospel, seeking Jesus’s support for practices that can help us meet this moment with spiritual grit and sufficient shalom.

Ask for Help. Jesus calls his first disciples in an exchange of mutual aid. He needs a platform; they can share one. They’ve caught nothing; he can direct them to a big catch. He needs assistants; they can follow. The best relationships function this way, like a seesaw, in complementary partnership.

Reckon with Your Past. When you encounter Jesus, he goes straight to the heart of the problem. The healing he offers could be physical, or emotional, or spiritual. You have to be ready for him to clean things up, re-order your psyche, put you back together from the inside out. How do we partner with Jesus in this self-rehabilitation? What about therapy as a spiritual practice?

Praise Aspirationally. Levi throws a great banquet with all the wrong guests... Jesus’s disciples aren’t ascetic enough... Jesus responds to accusations with “Look, we’re doing the best we can with the time we have.” It’s not a huge, triumphal claim; it’s a right-sized hope in God’s coming redemption. “Maybe...all is not lost.”

Honor Your Ancestors (Maybe Not All of Them). Think about where you came from. For most of us, there’s a wide variety of good, bad, and ugly in our heritage. Jesus is accused of not honoring the ancestors’ teachings; his replies show that he’s discerning what he takes and what he leaves behind from the history he inherits.

Lament Honestly. The “Sermon on the Plain” is noticeably more grounded than Matthew’s version. Jesus here attends to the material condition of his followers’ lives, and dares to speak the truth about that. He says God knows it’s true, and has in mind a reversal of fortune that will honor the truth of their daily experience of lack. Carissa Robinson is preaching.