The Parish Podcast

A Big Enough Story | Jesus Restories the People (February 12, 2023)

This week, we consider how Jesus is re-storying the people of God by cleansing imaginations and showing another way of being in the world.

A Big Enough Story | Jesus Restories the Promise & Place (February 5, 2023)

Reflecting on connections in the stories of the 10 Commandments and the Wedding at Cana, Jordan considers how Jesus might be restorying the promised people of God in the light of Epiphany.

A Big Enough Story | Jesus Restories the Fall (January 29, 2023)

We revisit humanity’s fall into sin, seeing how Jesus reshapes stories of brokenness into stories of healing.

A Big Enough Story | Jesus Restories Creation (January 15, 2023)

Jesus is at work to not only restore, but also re-story all things. This week, we revisit Act 1 of our story (creation) in the epiphany light of Christ, noting how John’s gospel masterfully presents Jesus as creator and re-creator.

A Big Enough Story | Jesus Restories Everything (January 8, 2023)

We enter the season of epiphany and explore how Jesus not only restores, but re-stories, everything that came before.

A Big Enough Story | The Chorus of Liberation (December 11, 2022)

This morning Benjamin Wills spoke of a new song, a chorus of liberation, and how we’re invited to be active participants not in an empire, but a kingdom. The kingdom’s cadence is compassion and curiosity, a keenness to where God is working. Can we hear?

A Big Enough Story | The Song of God’s Big Story (December 4, 2022)

In a follow up to a teaching on Exodus from a few weeks past, Megan Ramsey shares a homily on the liberation of Exodus and the song of liberation we hear throughout the big story.

A Big Enough Story | A Call to Remembrance (Christ the King Sunday) (November 20, 2022)

This morning Parishioner John Ott challenges our assumptions around the idea of obedience; recognizing that obedience is fundamental to the Christian path, but, it is more about the location of it in the sense that obedience is located in-between the practice of remembrance and God’s abundance.  Obedience is therefore not a formulaic and shamed based response, but rather something we do out of overflow in our remembrance of God’s faithfulness in the past and our hope in God’s presence in the future.

A Big Enough Story | A Promised Place (The God Who Saves) (November 13, 2022)

This past Sunday, Jordan took us through the Exodus story, noting that God hears the cries of trying times and He responds. In our own stories, we often want instant gratification, immediate transformation, a quick solution, but God has a purpose and plan, seeking our patience, cooperation and discernment to understand what He is up to.

A Big Enough Story | A Promised People (Blessed, Broken, Given) (November 6, 2022)

Welcome to The Parish. This morning‘s gathering is a bit different, as we explore a pattern we all tend to experience in our spiritual journeys: seasons of orientation, disorientation, and re-orientation. To make room to enter these three realities, we broke this morning's gathering up into three separate movements. On the podcast today, you’ll hear elements of each movement, one right after each other. It may be a bit choppy, but you’ll get the idea. We hope you’ll notice God coming to you and whichever stage of the spiritual journey you find yourself.