Advent Conspiracy Week 2: A Visual Meditation on Treasure
Spend Less. That is the simple message of our second week in the Advent Conspiracy. Do we really need to give so many gifts to our children? Should we ever go into debt in order to give gifts? Read our three texts for the week Micah 6:6-8, Ephesians 1:15-23, Matthew...
Why Conspire at Advent?
Conspiracy is a strange word to associate with Advent, isn’t it? The word has a subversive undertone. Exactly. We will join a growing movement at Easter this Advent that seeks to undermine the rampant consumerism that has overtaken the season and attempt to focus on...The Only Present We Need for Christmas (and some good advice for Thanksgiving)
Thanksgiving is tomorrow and the Christmas songs are already filling the airwaves. You can feel the frenetic energy building in our society as the collective anxiety builds in anticipation of the holiday season. Is this how we are supposed to feel as we enter...
The Advent Conspiracy Begins
We begin a new worship series this weekend called Advent Conspiracy. The idea is to undermine the consumerism that has taken over the Christmas season and completely obscured the spirit of Advent. We begin the series with the first step of the Conspiracy: Worship...
A Visual Meditation on Romans 12:4-5
How Do I Find Meaning in My Work? I chose to zoom in on Romans 12:4-5. Your work matters because it is a part of what God is doing in the world.