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A Deeper Dive for Authentic, Hopeful, Worshipful Faith
Weekly sermon content from Manito Presbyterian Church in Spokane, WA. Whatever your past experience church has or has not been, you are invited to be a part of our conversations and happenings. We live in confusing, divisive, isolating times and it is our prayer that you will experience authentic hope in the midst of it all.
Episodes
- A Deeper Dive for Authentic, Hopeful, Worshipful Faith
The Thing About Healing...
Guest speaker Rev John Owen
- A Deeper Dive for Authentic, Hopeful, Worshipful Faith
Go Out into The World In Peace
Sermon by guest speaker Woody Garvin
- A Deeper Dive for Authentic, Hopeful, Worshipful Faith
Engagement with Hope
“God wants humanity to be His creature. Furthermore, He wants us to be His PARTNER...God wants light, not darkness. He wants cosmos, not chaos. He wants peace…
- A Deeper Dive for Authentic, Hopeful, Worshipful Faith
Creation and Covenant
"The covenant is not only quite as old as creation; it is older than it. Before the world was,before heaven and earth were, the resolve or decree of God exists…
- A Deeper Dive for Authentic, Hopeful, Worshipful Faith
Art and the Odd
"On the basis of the eternal will of god we have to think of EVERY HUMAN BEING, even the oddest, most villanous or miserable, as one whom Jesus Christ is…
- A Deeper Dive for Authentic, Hopeful, Worshipful Faith
The Common Good
"To be pilgrims means that men must perpetually return to the starting-point of that naked humanity which is absolute poverty and utter insecurity...The…
- A Deeper Dive for Authentic, Hopeful, Worshipful Faith
Mothering Peace
"To clasp the hands in prayer is the beginning of an uprising against the disorder of the world" - Karl Barth
- A Deeper Dive for Authentic, Hopeful, Worshipful Faith
To receive and uphold one another
CreedGod has created the peoples of the earth to be one universal family. In his reconciling love, God overcomes the barriers between sisters and brothers and…
- A Deeper Dive for Authentic, Hopeful, Worshipful Faith
True Humanity
"Religion is the possibility of the removal of every gound of confidence except confidence in God alone." - Karl Barth
- A Deeper Dive for Authentic, Hopeful, Worshipful Faith
A Completely New Way of Being
"We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousandfibers connect us with our fellows; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as causes…
- A Deeper Dive for Authentic, Hopeful, Worshipful Faith
The Sifting of Us
“Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.” -C. S. Lewis
- A Deeper Dive for Authentic, Hopeful, Worshipful Faith
God's Answer to the Lust for Violence
“Nonviolence means avoiding not only external physical violence but also internal violence of spirit. You not only refuse to shoot a man, but you refuse to…
- A Deeper Dive for Authentic, Hopeful, Worshipful Faith
Beyond the Rut
“The ordinary think inside of the box, the extraordinary think outside of the box, but genius thinks inside, outside, below and above the box.” -Matshona…
- A Deeper Dive for Authentic, Hopeful, Worshipful Faith
Detachment or Focus?
Scripture Readings Shirley Russell Old Testament: Psalm 139:1-6, 13-18 (Link to text: https://bible.oremus.org/?ql=603296864)New Testament: Luke 14:28-33 (Link…
- A Deeper Dive for Authentic, Hopeful, Worshipful Faith
Choosing Life!
“You’ve got to think about big things while doing small things so that all the small things go in the right direction.” -Alvin Toffler
- A Deeper Dive for Authentic, Hopeful, Worshipful Faith
Staying Earthly Good
“This is our great challenge and consolation. Jesus comes to us in the poor, the sick, the dying, the prisoners, the lonely, the disabled, the rejected. There…
- A Deeper Dive for Authentic, Hopeful, Worshipful Faith
Not Spasmadic Petition but Repentant Interiority
"It is said that the age of a tree can be reckoned by looking at the bsrk - one can also truly know a person's age in the good by the inwardness of the…
- A Deeper Dive for Authentic, Hopeful, Worshipful Faith
Muddy the Truth
“The True Self is not our creation, but God's. It is the self we are in our depths. It is our capacity for divinity and transcendence.” -Sue Monk Kid
- A Deeper Dive for Authentic, Hopeful, Worshipful Faith
Unanticipated
"Every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life are based on the labors of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in…
- A Deeper Dive for Authentic, Hopeful, Worshipful Faith
Self Advocacy
Old Testament: 1 Samuel 1:1-19 (Link to text: https://bible.oremus.org/?ql=603295174)New Testament: Luke 18:1-8 (Link to text…
- A Deeper Dive for Authentic, Hopeful, Worshipful Faith
Heavy Realism
Scripture Readings Jill CatheyOld Testament: Deuteronomy 15:7-11 (Link to text: https://bible.oremus.org/?ql=603295429)New Testament: Luke 16:1-13 (Link to…
- A Deeper Dive for Authentic, Hopeful, Worshipful Faith
Adam's Curse
"I am a human being, not a human doing." - Kurt Vonnegut
- A Deeper Dive for Authentic, Hopeful, Worshipful Faith
Live into the New
"A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new." -Albert Einstein
- A Deeper Dive for Authentic, Hopeful, Worshipful Faith
A Storm is Coming
“Storms of every sort, torrents, earthquakes, cataclysms, 'convulsions of nature,' etc., however mysterious and lawless at first sight they may seem, are only…
- A Deeper Dive for Authentic, Hopeful, Worshipful Faith
Seeking the Welfare of the City
“If you want to go quickly, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.” – African Proverb
- A Deeper Dive for Authentic, Hopeful, Worshipful Faith
The mystery of God's Will
The goal of our lives is not simply self agency or mastery but even more surrender to and embrace of God's will and being.
- A Deeper Dive for Authentic, Hopeful, Worshipful Faith
Suddenly
Tonight; we remember and anticipate all of the things that can happen in God…suddenly!
- A Deeper Dive for Authentic, Hopeful, Worshipful Faith
A Person's a Person No Matter How Small
At Christmas, we celebrate and honor those who are culturally considered lowly but are exalted in the love and work of Christ.
- A Deeper Dive for Authentic, Hopeful, Worshipful Faith
Being With rather than Over
Joy is to be found in accompaniment rather than control and exploitation.
- A Deeper Dive for Authentic, Hopeful, Worshipful Faith
Tender Mercies of Christmas
Advent is the time of your to hold lights of mercy in any and every darkness to guide all feet in the ways of peace.
- A Deeper Dive for Authentic, Hopeful, Worshipful Faith
At the Coming of the Lord Jesus
Advent means “coming.” Advent is our yearly exercise of preparing our hearts, minds, homes, and schedules for the in-breaking of Jesus Christ.
- A Deeper Dive for Authentic, Hopeful, Worshipful Faith
Untroubled Truth
Do not let your hearts be troubled. Believe in God, believe also in me.
- A Deeper Dive for Authentic, Hopeful, Worshipful Faith
Releasing Truth
You that have no money, come, buy, and eat!
- A Deeper Dive for Authentic, Hopeful, Worshipful Faith
Generative Truth
In the not-knowing are the wells of creativity.
- A Deeper Dive for Authentic, Hopeful, Worshipful Faith
Vulnerable Truth
Therefore, since it is by God's mercy that we are engaged in this ministry, we do not lose hear.
- A Deeper Dive for Authentic, Hopeful, Worshipful Faith
Six Degrees of Separation
You will know them by their fruits. …A good tree cannot bear bad fruit, nor can a bad tree bear good fruit.
- A Deeper Dive for Authentic, Hopeful, Worshipful Faith
It is the Forest, not the Trees
Teacher, we know that you are sincere and teach the way of God in accordance with truth, and show deference to no one; for you do not regard people with…
- A Deeper Dive for Authentic, Hopeful, Worshipful Faith
What is there to Fear but Fear Itself?
So you also must consider yourselves dead to sin and alive to God in Christ Jesus. Old Testament: Psalm 85 (Link to text…
- A Deeper Dive for Authentic, Hopeful, Worshipful Faith
Can We Handle it? Do We Want It?
‘You say that I am a king. For this I was born, and for this I came into the world, to testify to the truth. Everyone who belongs to the truth listens to my…
- A Deeper Dive for Authentic, Hopeful, Worshipful Faith
Glorious Truth
Word became flesh and lived among us, and we have seen his glory, the glory as of a father’s only son, full of grace and truth.
- A Deeper Dive for Authentic, Hopeful, Worshipful Faith
True Grace and Graceful Truth
The law indeed was given through Moses; grace and truth came through Jesus Christ
- A Deeper Dive for Authentic, Hopeful, Worshipful Faith
Living in a Land of Confusion
For God is not a God of disorder but of peace—as in all the congregations of the Lord’s people.
- A Deeper Dive for Authentic, Hopeful, Worshipful Faith
“One Day We’ll All Understand” (The Apostles’ Creed, Week 8)
“Faith seeking understanding,” in the words of St Anselm, is our hope. In the meantime, “wax on, wax off…breathe in, breathe out” can help us remember that we…
- A Deeper Dive for Authentic, Hopeful, Worshipful Faith
The End…? (Apostles’ Creed, Week 7)
Christ made it abundantly clear that only God knows the time and manner in which God’s Kingdom will be (re)established on earth. He also made it abundantly…
- A Deeper Dive for Authentic, Hopeful, Worshipful Faith
Triptych (The Apostles’ Creed, Week 6)
Although our faith has ancient roots, it is thoroughly forward looking.
- A Deeper Dive for Authentic, Hopeful, Worshipful Faith
“It Ain’t Over Til…” (The Apostles’ Creed, Week 5)
While the life and ministry of Jesus happened in a particular moment in human history, Jesus’ work continues, guiding us toward a future that is leading us…
- A Deeper Dive for Authentic, Hopeful, Worshipful Faith
Newness
Just about everything in our relationship with God is about newness, new-orientation, renewal, and transformation.
- A Deeper Dive for Authentic, Hopeful, Worshipful Faith
The Apostles’ Creed, Week 4
We Have Seen Strange Things Today
- A Deeper Dive for Authentic, Hopeful, Worshipful Faith
Full of Grace and Truth
Thank you to Woody Garvin for today's sermon!
- A Deeper Dive for Authentic, Hopeful, Worshipful Faith
The Apostles’ Creed, Week 3
…God’s Only Son, Our Lord
- A Deeper Dive for Authentic, Hopeful, Worshipful Faith
The Apostles’ Creed, Week 2
What makes us distinctively Christian is what we believe about Jesus of Nazareth. Thank you to special guest John Owen!
- A Deeper Dive for Authentic, Hopeful, Worshipful Faith
Mourning into Dancing
By entering the Life of Christ now, lament moves to praise, and scarcity opens up to abundance!
- A Deeper Dive for Authentic, Hopeful, Worshipful Faith
Now is the Acceptable Time!
The key to the spiritual life with Christ is to live into the eternal life now!
- A Deeper Dive for Authentic, Hopeful, Worshipful Faith
I Believe
The Apostles’ Creed offers us a succinct way of understanding what it means to be a Christian. Special thanks to guest pastor John Owen for today's Sermon.
- A Deeper Dive for Authentic, Hopeful, Worshipful Faith
It Takes a lot of Courage
…afterward many are strong at the broken places...
- A Deeper Dive for Authentic, Hopeful, Worshipful Faith
The Whole World in His Hands
Our caring cannot be compared to the Depth and Breadth of God’s Love
- A Deeper Dive for Authentic, Hopeful, Worshipful Faith
Lord, I can't wait to see their faces, When I get the nerve to say
Old Testament: Jonah 4:1–4 (Link to text: https://bible.oremus.org/?ql=578488307) New Testament: Matthew 28:18-20 (Link to text…
- A Deeper Dive for Authentic, Hopeful, Worshipful Faith
Now, We are all Jonah!
On Pentecost, the gift of the Holy Spirit draws us all into the Prophetic Call.
- A Deeper Dive for Authentic, Hopeful, Worshipful Faith
Jonah and the Ninevites
We will miss the Great Acts of God if we are unwilling to be surprised!