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 repair

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Four stories from John's gospel will shape our worship and contemplation for five Sundays.

John 3: the story of Nicodemus under the cover of night. We heard The Killers' "All These Things That I've Done," imagined it as Nicodemus' theme song: "Another head aches, another heart breaks / I'm so much older than I can take... / These changes ain't changing me / the cold- (or gold-?) hearted boy I used to be. Oh, you gotta' help me out." And then we watched Nicodemus sneak back to his closet, still in the dark. Even Jesus doesn't bat a thousand.

From John 4, the story of the (gasp!) Samaritan (gasp!) woman Jesus shouldn't have been talking to. Slut or victim? Sinner or sinned against? What would (did) Jesus say?

"Here's mud in your eye." That's what she -- our regular contributor here -- would have called this sermon. But Joel Brown is classier than that. So he respects this story about Jesus from John 9:1-41 with a great deal of gravitas. It is, after all, about the possibility that just when Jesus is helping one blind guy see, he can strike a whole bunch more people blind -- the miracle of healing working backwards for those without eyes to see. Ouch.

At the top of the service, we listened to a piece of Anne Lamott's reading on NPR's This American Life, episode 104, in which she says she's seen "miracle enough for me." You can listen here. 

Thanks, Joel, for good words and good news.

The story of the Bethany siblings is our last in the Soul Repair series: John 11. But we're telling it over two weeks, which means for a little while Lazarus is going to stay in the tomb while we think about Martha and Mary and what those days of Jesus' delay felt like to them. This is not going to be nominated for anybody's feel-good sermon of the year, but we're still telling the truth here, aren't we? (Theme song for the Bethany sisters: "You Found Me," The Fray. Just a little late. Where were you?)

It took us a week, but we finally got Lazarus out of that tomb. Check out John 11, the whole story, before you go too much further. And if you want to experience the sermon in its context, take your earbuds to your local barbecue restaurant.