Are You the One?
Christmas letters are strange birds that carry good news and bad. I read of adventurous trips and children blessed, along with a deadly siege of pneumonia and a crippling fall followed by months of rehab. Not the former litany of triumphal wins and public prizes, there is a growing thread of humility and appreciation of […]
Potter’s House History, 1619 Project, Seekers Classes
Seekers Church – School for Christian Growth, Fall 2019 Second Term Tuesday evenings 6:45 p.m.–9:00 p.m.October 29–December 3, 2019 Note new times for dinner and classes!Dinner begins at 6:45. Classes begin at 7:30 and end at 9:00. Rethinking Call in a Changing World Led by Marjory Bankson Does God have a “good work” for me now? […]
Keeping the Faith
When the path that Jesus’s followers were travelling got difficult, Jesus wanted to encourage them to not lose faith, so he told them a story about a widow who keeps knocking on the door of an unjust judge.* We don’t really know anything about the case, except that widows in that time and place were […]
Fire Upon the Earth
What does fire mean for you? Is it light? Warmth? Threat? Comfort? Power? Destruction? Apocalypse? Do you fear fire, or welcome it? And when Jesus says, “I came to bring fire upon the earth,” does it imply trouble or transformation?* As a potter, fire is my friend. It is the end stage of turning clay […]
