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

Trying to find our Sunday worship livestream?
click here!

The illogical logic of god

30. Advent 2016.png

“In the beginning was the Word,” begins John’s gospel. The logos of God, the “logic” of God, the way God thinks and creates and imagines and plans, takes on flesh in the person of Jesus. So we learn God’s logic by watching Jesus. Especially at Christmastime, we witness the events surrounding God’s embodiment, and learn from them.

In the logic of God, people have a past. Jesus had ancestors – a bunch of #nastywomen among them – and who he became had in part to do with who he came from. Is this a blessing or a burden for us? Who do we come from? How does that shape us? It’s not determinative, but it’s not nothing. Matthew 1:1-17.

In the logic of God, the messiah is unwanted. A single mother whose fiancé wants rid of her… a potentate who is murderously jealous… wise men who seek the new king in a palace rather than the humble quarters of a poor family… God demonstrates again God’s own preferential option for those who are unwanted and out of place. There is power here for we who have been unwanted; there is challenge here for we who seek status and popularity. Matthew 1:18–2:12.

In the logic of God, the savior of the world is a refugee. Jesus escapes to Egypt on the backs of his parents; children are endangered in his wake; the family can’t get home because it’s dangerous there. He is a political escapee, an undocumented immigrant, a refugee. Our own world groans with the shifting weight of populations away from cruelty and toward safety; do we have enough security to spare our neighbors? Matthew 2:13-23.

In the logic of God, religion is real. John the Baptist may have been an iconoclast, but he is the product of a specific religious tradition, as are the Pharisees and Saducees who join him at the river. How does the same religious background bring about both products? Where does your religious tradition and practice lead you? Matthew 3:1-13.

Christmas Eve, a toddler on a train, a coveted Makita drill. John 1.

"Can you just hold him for me, just for a little while? Take good care of him, please." Communion on Christmas Day and the inevitable truth about Jesus, ourselves, and the God who loves us both.

In the logic of God, blessing and trial travel closely together. Jesus receives God’s blessing, the name of “Beloved Son,” and is immediately led away by the Spirit into the wilderness to fast and pray and withstand trial. What is that about? Where is God’s agency in that, and what does that say about God’s agency in our own lives?