Our "Cultivate" series continued this Sunday! Last week we began by talking about "awareness" as an indispensable key to nurturing a healthy, transformative spirituality. In this sermon we built off of that by contrasting how a spirituality marked manipulation and control differs from a spirituality grounded in love.
Read MoreThis Sunday we began a brand new series called "Cultivate: Making Space for Spirit." Throughout this series we will explore what a healthy, transformative spirituality looks like. To kick things off this week Josh talked about "Preparing the Soil" for the journey toward a flourishing, healthy, and transformative spirituality.
Read MoreThis week Founding Pastor/Pastor Emeritus Stan Mitchell talked about what is, arguably, the single most important shift in Christian thinking in the past two+ centuries: the move away from Inherent Separation (meaning the idea that we are born separated from God) as our starting point, and the shift toward Inherent Union (meaning that we are born connected in and to God). You don't want to miss this one!
Read MoreThis week Josh wrapped up our "GracePointe 201" series by talking about what it means to be Church. In this talk we explore a text, a context, and ask what they might mean for how we think about our collective work of being Church today. Where we start and where we end might surprise you!
Read MoreThis week in GracePointe 201 we’re exploring the Jesus of history and the Christ of faith—a framework that helps us hold both the grounded, historical reality of Jesus as a person of the past, and the living, abiding experience of Jesus for so many today. For many Christians Jesus is the great exception--somehow able to be like us but infinitely better than us. This Jesus is to be worshipped, but we all know deep down he can not be truly imitated or followed. What if there is another way to see Jesus, not as the exception, but as the rule? What if Jesus represents our potential, an invitation to become everything we can become?
Read MoreThis week at GracePointe we continued our GracePointe 201 series by talking about God. One of our convictions at GracePointe is that "God is a Mystery to be explored, not a doctrine to be espoused." What does that mean, practically? Join us at we explore that question and more!
Read MoreSeveral years ago our Founding Pastor, Stan Mitchell, led us through a conversation called “GracePointe 101” that explored our growing understanding of the Bible, God, Jesus, and Church. Beginning this weekend we will build on that work and continue the conversation. because our understanding of the faith journey is that it is always unfinished, unfolding, and in-progress.
This week we began with the Bible. What is the Bible? Does it still matter for us today? How can we approach it with both reverence and reason? Listen in as Josh leads us in that conversation!
The weekend Founding Pastor Stan Mitchell lead us to think about how we might begin to dream about and reimagine an important facet of Christian spirituality—the afterlife—through the lens of Progressive Christianity. If you are wrestling with questions about the afterlife, this is a must listen!
Read MoreThis week Josh wrapped up our summer "Grab Bag" series with a time of question and response with our community. We had questions from our in person and online communities and they did not disappoint!
Read MoreWe are so excited to welcome a brilliant and insightful writer and speaker to GracePointe this weekend! Kat Armas is not only an important voice, but she’s also a fellow GPer! You won’t want to miss what she shared in this sermon!
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