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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
Jonah’s recommissioning and compliance
Another One Bites the Dust
- A Deeper Dive for Authentic, Hopeful, Worshipful Faith
Don't worry, be happy now
To walk with God, Jonah needs to be Spit Out
- A Deeper Dive for Authentic, Hopeful, Worshipful Faith
And every man knew, as the captain did too
Often, true piety is found outside of the covenantal people of God.
- A Deeper Dive for Authentic, Hopeful, Worshipful Faith
Don't know when I'll be back again
Christ sends us into the entire wide and unknown world!
- A Deeper Dive for Authentic, Hopeful, Worshipful Faith
The Sign of Jonah
Easter Freedom Opens the Way to Personal Transformation!
- A Deeper Dive for Authentic, Hopeful, Worshipful Faith
This is the LORD for whom we have waited
“Unless we frankly recognize that Christ's birth and resurrection come forth from places of hopelessness and helplessness, we've not understood their meaning.”…
- A Deeper Dive for Authentic, Hopeful, Worshipful Faith
The Necessary Cleansing of Cognitive Suffering
Suffering is a necessary condition for the human condition, and cognitive suffering is essential for our conversions to follow the messiahship of Jesus Christ…
- A Deeper Dive for Authentic, Hopeful, Worshipful Faith
Honor, Power, and Glory Given, not Grasped
As Christians, we always confuse the work of Christ on earth as a sign of an earthly kingdom.
- A Deeper Dive for Authentic, Hopeful, Worshipful Faith
The Spiritual Diagnostic Scan
Jesus heals our sin by forcing our gaze upon what life, undirected to Jesus, will do to God incarnate in Jesus.
- A Deeper Dive for Authentic, Hopeful, Worshipful Faith
Relational Realignment
God’s covenantal binding is expressed in interpersonal rather than tribal relationships, but with universal scope.
- A Deeper Dive for Authentic, Hopeful, Worshipful Faith
A Covenant of Suffering for Love
God transforms the secular motivation for covenant from acquisition, profit, and control to suffering relational love.
- A Deeper Dive for Authentic, Hopeful, Worshipful Faith
Covenant of Grace
In the face of evil and hatred, God unilaterally disarms human ways of responding and chooses, instead, to bind Godself to a covenant of grace.
- A Deeper Dive for Authentic, Hopeful, Worshipful Faith
Do you See What I See?
“There was nothing exalted about Christ’s life and death…unless you had faith to see through them. To stand up in front of people twirling your tongue about…
- A Deeper Dive for Authentic, Hopeful, Worshipful Faith
To Be With, or Not to Be With God
“Christ’s death has somehow put us right with God and has given us a fresh start. Theories as to how it did this are another matter.” --C.S. Lewis
- A Deeper Dive for Authentic, Hopeful, Worshipful Faith
Telling the Truth and Stumbling Blocks
“We become free as we let go of our three primary energy centers: our need for power and control, our need for safety and security, and our need for affection…
- A Deeper Dive for Authentic, Hopeful, Worshipful Faith
Priorities
“There is meaning in every journey that is unknown to the traveler.” ― Dietrich Bonhoeffer
- A Deeper Dive for Authentic, Hopeful, Worshipful Faith
A New Orientation
Being a Christian means we are lifelong learners to love God and all our neighbors.
- A Deeper Dive for Authentic, Hopeful, Worshipful Faith
Dancing Your Faith
The baptism of Jesus invites us into a life of loving relationships.
- A Deeper Dive for Authentic, Hopeful, Worshipful Faith
Christmas Light
Christmas begins by receiving the light of Christ and holding it in our hearts.
- A Deeper Dive for Authentic, Hopeful, Worshipful Faith
Birthing Christmas Hope
Christmas begins by holding it in our hearts, before it lives forth through us.
- A Deeper Dive for Authentic, Hopeful, Worshipful Faith
Plowing Christmas Fields
For God’s Christmas to hold seed and bloom, we need to allow our hearts and souls to be plowed through humble repentance and joyous expectation.
- A Deeper Dive for Authentic, Hopeful, Worshipful Faith
Preparing Christmas Hearts
Christmas is not something “magical” to divert us from dreary lives, but the joyous consummation of God’s complex relational work with all peoples.
- A Deeper Dive for Authentic, Hopeful, Worshipful Faith
Setting Christmas Sights
Each Present Christmas Presents the Future Christmas and Culmination in our Lord Jesus Christ.
- A Deeper Dive for Authentic, Hopeful, Worshipful Faith
Engaging with Psalm 6
with guest pastor John Owen
- A Deeper Dive for Authentic, Hopeful, Worshipful Faith
The Beginning of Desire
This movement from self-possession to a more complex, inspired, and receptive vision of things is, I would suggest, relevant to the process that brings Jacob…
- A Deeper Dive for Authentic, Hopeful, Worshipful Faith
The Quest for Wholeness
Characteristically, then, Jacob leads from behind: he is the thinker, the one who projects in images and words, the director behind the scenes. This is…
- A Deeper Dive for Authentic, Hopeful, Worshipful Faith
Dispersions
Leaving all support systems behind him, Jacob moves into the world of the night. Here, nothing is clear, all is shifting, phantasm, illusion. And here…
- A Deeper Dive for Authentic, Hopeful, Worshipful Faith
Sincerity and Authenticity
Jacob searches for his authenticity among all the “lendings” of the theatrical wardrobe. What Isaac senses is the “smell of my son,” which transforms the…
- A Deeper Dive for Authentic, Hopeful, Worshipful Faith
Language and Silence
Abraham’s laughter, through which he communed with others, was a “pseudo-language,” in which “silence is the essence.” Now this essence is explored to its…
- A Deeper Dive for Authentic, Hopeful, Worshipful Faith
Travels and Travails of Faith
"Abraham bears the whole world with him in his personal anguished search. To roam, implies full exposure to the hazards of experience. The resonance of…
- A Deeper Dive for Authentic, Hopeful, Worshipful Faith
Noah: Kindness and Ecstasy
All the pathologies of openness and closedness relate to imaginative obtuseness. According to the midrash in Bereshit Rabbah (36:1), the Flood people see God…
- A Deeper Dive for Authentic, Hopeful, Worshipful Faith
The Pivoting Point
The powerful implication here is that God’s original intention can be consummated only by Adam’s free perception and desire. Only when Adam comes to feel the…
- A Deeper Dive for Authentic, Hopeful, Worshipful Faith
Reflection on New Testament Shared World of Psalm 22: Matthew 27:38-46
Throughout our worship series focused on a single psalm each week that becomes part of the New Testament playlist, our regular order of worship has been…
- A Deeper Dive for Authentic, Hopeful, Worshipful Faith
Reflection on New Testament Shared World of Psalm 82: John 10:31-39
Throughout our worship series focused on a single psalm each week that becomes part of the New Testament playlist, our regular order of worship has been…
- A Deeper Dive for Authentic, Hopeful, Worshipful Faith
Reflection on New Testament Shared World of Psalm 24: 1 Corinthians 10:23-27
Throughout our worship series focused on a single psalm each week that becomes part of the New Testament playlist, our regular order of worship has been…
- A Deeper Dive for Authentic, Hopeful, Worshipful Faith
When the Devil Sings the Psalms
“To recognize that the Psalms call us to pray and sing at the intersections of the times--of our time and God's time, of the then, and the now, and the not…
- A Deeper Dive for Authentic, Hopeful, Worshipful Faith
New Testament Shared World of Psalm 51: Romans 3:1-4
Throughout our worship series focused on a single psalm each week that becomes part of the New Testament playlist, our regular order of worship has been…
- A Deeper Dive for Authentic, Hopeful, Worshipful Faith
Reflection on the New Testament Shared World of Psalm 14
Fools say in their hearts, “There is no God.” They are corrupt; there is no one who does good. The Lord looks down from heaven on humankind to see if there are…
- A Deeper Dive for Authentic, Hopeful, Worshipful Faith
The Christ Hymn, Philippians 2:5-11
In your relationships with one another, have the same mindset as Christ Jesus: Who, being in very nature God, did not consider equality with God something to…
- A Deeper Dive for Authentic, Hopeful, Worshipful Faith
New Testament Shared World of Psalm 19: Romans 10:14-21
Throughout our worship series focused on a single psalm each week that becomes part of the New Testament playlist, our regular order of worship has been…
- A Deeper Dive for Authentic, Hopeful, Worshipful Faith
Reflection on New Testament Shared World of Psalm 146: Acts 14:8-18
Throughout our worship series focused on a single psalm each week that becomes part of the New Testament playlist, our regular order of worship has been…
- A Deeper Dive for Authentic, Hopeful, Worshipful Faith
New Testament Playlist: Psalm 98
Throughout our worship series focused on a single psalm each week that becomes part of the New Testament playlist, our regular order of worship has been…
- A Deeper Dive for Authentic, Hopeful, Worshipful Faith
New Testament Playlist: Psalm 94
Throughout our worship series focused on a single psalm each week that becomes part of the New Testament playlist, our regular order of worship has been…
- A Deeper Dive for Authentic, Hopeful, Worshipful Faith
Spiritual Songs, Politics, and Strong Drink
“The psalmist is brutally honest about the explosive joy that he’s feeling, and the deep sorrow, or confusion.” –Bono “The songs are not pretty. They’re not…
- A Deeper Dive for Authentic, Hopeful, Worshipful Faith
The New Testament Playlist: Psalm 40
Throughout our worship series focused on a single psalm each week that becomes part of the New Testament playlist, our regular order of worship has been…
- A Deeper Dive for Authentic, Hopeful, Worshipful Faith
New Testament Playlist: Psalm 32
Throughout our worship series focused on a single psalm each week that becomes part of the New Testament playlist, our regular order of worship has been…
- A Deeper Dive for Authentic, Hopeful, Worshipful Faith
The New Testament Playlist: Psalm 2
Throughout our worship series focused on a single psalm each week that becomes part of the New Testament playlist, our regular order of worship has been…
- A Deeper Dive for Authentic, Hopeful, Worshipful Faith
Created Worlds and Shared Worlds
“The glory of God is a human being fully alive,” wrote Irenaeus of Lyons some two thousand years ago. One of the reasons I remain a Christian-in-progress is…
- A Deeper Dive for Authentic, Hopeful, Worshipful Faith
Knowing Beyond Borders
The more specific we are, the more universal something can become. Life is in the details. If you generalize, it doesn't resonate. The specificity of it is…
- A Deeper Dive for Authentic, Hopeful, Worshipful Faith
It is Not for Us to Know
John Owen - Can we ever really go back to ’the way things were,’ when God’s Spirit is always calling us forward into God’s Kingdom?
- A Deeper Dive for Authentic, Hopeful, Worshipful Faith
Building Upon Unknown Gods
A life is either all spiritual or not spiritual at all. No man can serve two masters. Your life is shaped by the end you live for. You are made in the image of…
- A Deeper Dive for Authentic, Hopeful, Worshipful Faith
How Can We Know the Way
If a person has not discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live. –Martin Luther King, Jr.
- A Deeper Dive for Authentic, Hopeful, Worshipful Faith
Knowing as Sheep
There is a divinity that shapes our ends-but we can help by listening for Its voice. —Kathleen Norris
- A Deeper Dive for Authentic, Hopeful, Worshipful Faith
Eyes Opened
Today we need an "Emmaus road" experience in reverse. The disciples knew Moses and the Prophets but could not conceive how they might relate to Jesus the…
- A Deeper Dive for Authentic, Hopeful, Worshipful Faith
Peace and Unbelief
“Jesus' willingness to accommodate Thomas' unbelief is a reminder that God can handle our doubt... and that the rationalist doesn't need to see, touch, or run…
- A Deeper Dive for Authentic, Hopeful, Worshipful Faith
Easter and Not Knowing
The resurrection does not solve our problems about dying and death. It is not the happy ending to our life’s struggle, nor is it the big surprise that God has…
- A Deeper Dive for Authentic, Hopeful, Worshipful Faith
Blessed is the One who Comes with the Name of the Lord
In the presence of his integrity, our own pretense is exposed. In the presence of his constancy, our cowardice is brought to light. In the presence of his…
- A Deeper Dive for Authentic, Hopeful, Worshipful Faith
If Only…
The great and merciful surprise is that we come to God, not by doing it right, but by doing it wrong. — Richard Rohr
- A Deeper Dive for Authentic, Hopeful, Worshipful Faith
The New Thing God is Building
Rev. Katie Stark, Missional Expeditor Focus: God is at work in new and surprising ways that look different than the church most of us grew up with.
- A Deeper Dive for Authentic, Hopeful, Worshipful Faith
Won't You Be(come) My Neighbor?
The Holy Spirit is inviting God’s people into a new imagination of mission and community by sending vulnerable into our midst.