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Vulnerability: Embracing Vulnerability

Sunday, December 5, 2017 - Embracing Vulnerability - Although we attempt to guard ourselves from being vulnerable, the capacity to be wounded is a characteristic of God that can help us become fully human in a way that God intended.

Lessons on Vulnerability - God Invites Us To Love

Sunday, November 27, 2016 - God Invites Us To Love - Our continued exploration of the revealation of God through Jesus Christ leads us to examine the role of vulnerability in opening us up to the fulfillment of our life through love...and God makes God's self vulnerable by allowing us to choose not to love.

Lessons on Vulnerability - God Made Vulnerable On The Cross

Sunday, November 20, 2016 - God Made Vulnerable On The Cross - It challenges our thinking of God to consider that God reveals himself to us in the act of Christ's Death upon the Cross as a God of vulnerability.

Lessons on Vulnerability - Managing our Identity

Sunday, November 13, 2016 - Managing Our Identity - Drawing upon the previous lessons of Judy Ingala, we explore the ways in which we protect ourselves from vulnerability by managing the ways others see us.

Lessons on Vulnerability - Listening

Sunday, October 23, 2016 - Understanding Vulnerability Through Listening - The art of listening to others is helpful in diminishing the fear of vulnerabililty while enriching our own understanding and empathic presence

Lessons on Vulnerability - Stories of Vulnerability

Sunday, October 16, 2016 - Stories of Vulnerability - We can learn from each other about our discomfort with vulnerability by listening to stories that resonate with our own experiences.

Lessons on Vulnerability - Introduction

Sunday, October 9, 2016 - Lessons on Vulnerability - Professor Kenneson begins a new lesson series by introducing the idea that vulnerability might actually offer a lesson on living in the manner God created us to be.

The Hard Sayings of Jesus: Stumbling Blocks

Sunday, October 2, 2016 - Mark 9:30-48 - In the final lesson in the 'Hard Sayings of Jesus' lesson series, we confront the difficulties of the Disciples to fully grasp the important vision of the Kingdom of God, here and now.  Jesus uses an extreme example to emphasize the significance of his coming into the World. 

The Hard Sayings of Jesus: The Neighbor who Resembles an Enemy

Sunday, September 11, 2016 - Luke 10:25-37 - The very familiar parable of the Good Samaritan does not cease to instruct us on how to treat others - particularly during a time of fear and anxiety about our neighbors.

The Hard Sayings of Jesus: Divorce & Adultery

Sunday, September 4, 2016 - Matthew 5: 27-32 - the difficult topic of divorce and adultery becomes a more valuable conversation when understood in the context of getting to the very heart of the law.