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FP Presents Monster Mash is moving to Sunday morning this week! Originally scheduled for Sunday night at Screamer's, this month's FP Presents will be airing online on Sunday morning at 9am. Don't miss a look at the surprising spiritual meaning of Vampires, Zombies, Frankenstein, Ghosts and Mummies. Boo!
Prophets are tricky. It is uncomfortable to hear them and the ancient prophets do not fit our modern world. Yet injustices continue and our need to address is still a key aspect of the good news of Jesus Christ. This week, Pastor Juan Carlos Huertas, invites us to listen to this ancient word and recognize ourselves as a body called the church and our call to be justice seekers and justice makers to the poor around us.
This week we hear a very ancient story that seems to suggest that we are pawns in Gods' game? Is this true? Does God use us in these ways? This week, Pastor Juan Carlos Huertas, invites us to consider what this ancient story tells us about those who first told it, about how we too create God narratives, and how we might free ourselves towards a larger vision about who God is, who we are, and why that matters in the world.
In this episode of “Just Conversations” Pastor Juan Carlos asks Becca Rivers Keck, MSW, LCSW, LMHP, about the troubles today’s youth are facing and how spirituality plays a role in providing support.
Jesus often reminds that the kin-dom of God is good news to the poor. In a world where so many around us struggle financially and those of us with resources are afraid of not having enough what does it look like to be agents of good news to the poor? What should be our response?
Our scripture text has the disciples arguing about who is the greatest among them. It seems that we are by nature competitive and eager to be considered above others. Jesus does his best to school them and teach them about humility, but down to this day we continue to create pecking orders and a sense of superiority. Dr. Jim Keck will expose our status anxiety as an insecurity that only love can cure.
Can you hear it? In our lives we so often find ourselves moving from one thing to another, not paying attention. When decision times come or when difficult moments come, we might feel lost, wondering what to do or who to go to? What if you trusted that inner voice, what if you allow that deep wisdom that is in you come roaring? This week, Pastor Juan Carlos Huertas, invites us to pay attention, to foster, and to exercise the voice of the divine within all of us!
Some Christians think of spirituality as a key aspect of our life in God and justice as subsidiary work. Other Christians see the work of justice as primary and spirituality as secondary or even unimportant. This week, Pastor Juan Carlos Huertas, invites us to think about our life in God as a life rooted in a just spirituality: What it looks like, What it means, and how it’s practiced.
Pastor Juan Carlos Huertas loves short stories and this week he shares some thoughts from his reading of Stephen King’s “The Answer Man.” We all get anxious about making decisions, about the uncertainties of life, and want to make sure that we take the right next steps. What if we could get some answers? Would it help us live a more fulfilling life?
Pastors Jim and Juan Carlos will each explore a key moment in the life of the archetypal wise king of the Hebrew Scriptures. And how we need to discover our own wise selves. Join us in worship!
Our church has a particular way of walking with God that is marked by moderation, open-mindedness and inclusivity. But don't take that description to mean we lack intensity and a strong mission. Dr. Jim Keck will explore how this mission just got a lot more intense.
Human flourishing requires time, effort, practice, and community. This week, Pastor Juan Carlos Huertas, invites us to consider how each of us practicing our flourishing and our giftedness, can contribute to a flourishing community. What gifts do you bring?
This week, Dr. Jim Keck, explores how the mystical essence of our faith is beyond all the small controversies that always swirl around religion.
In his 1988 publication A Secure Base, British child psychologist John Bowlby wrote "life is best organized as a series of daring ventures from a secure base." One must develop a secure base that gives yourself the ability be original and take daring ventures with your work and life. Using the call of Matthew as a disciple, Dr. Jim Keck will talk about what can function as a secure base that enables our lives to be more adventurous.
Rev. Katie Miller is a Nebraska native, currently serving as the Senior Minister at the UCC Vermillion church in South Dakota. Prior to her call to ministry, Katie performed as a musician and actor in and around New York and Chicago.
We are devoted to so many things in our lives, but are those things leading us to flourishing? This week, Pastor Juan Carlos Huertas, shares with us some insights from one of his recent reads about God, the community called the church, and what it means to live in a way that leads to flourishing, community, connection, in life as the good news of Jesus promises.
There are brief moments where the beauty and the grandeur of life becomes readily apparent. Dr. Jim Keck explores these WHOOSH moments in the digital sermon this week.
Moderate and open-minded religion seems to have lost its sense of urgency and muddled the core message of the Gospel - JESUS SAVES. It is time for inclusive Christians to find some intensity in spreading the Gospel. Dr Jim Keck will try to thread the needle and show that our Christian faith can honor other religions and celebrate diversity in sexual orientation, while at the same time knowing that people must be brought to Jesus.
In the origin myth that we call the book of Genesis, the ancient Israelites were trying to explain who they were and how the world worked. One of the things to explain was why there were multiple languages. This week, Pastor Juan Carlos, takes this ancient story of “the Tower of Babel” to begin a conversation about language, culture, difference and the complexities, opportunities, and good news that are found there.
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Thank you so much for doing a podcast! I moved from Lincoln in 2015. But, there's nothing like a Dr. Keck sermon to give me hope & motivation. I don't pay for YouTube, so I have to keep my phone awake when I use it. Now that I've finally thought to search my podcast player & found this podcast, I can listen at work & the gym. Continue to love one another <3