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Teena Brown

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Blessing The Truth

By Talks

Jess offered some personal reflections on accepting and blessing the truth of our lives. She connected this with Hagar’s experience of oppression and abuse in the home of Abraham and Sarah, and of encountering God in the desert. Then she considered how God is with us — even and especially when things are not okay

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Honesty, Courage & Wholeness

By Talks

 Walter reflects on being continually reminded of how important it is for our healing and wholeness to have the courage to ‘bear honest witness to our experience’ – which, as Jesus says, ‘sets us free.’ He also tells barely relevant stories of his trip with a few irrelevant pictures.

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Pride Is Possible

By Talks

On the first Sunday of Pride month, Jess Williams reflects on the history of Pride and how it models a way of walking the path Jesus walked while highlighting the history of St. Croix Church and its decision to split paths with the Vineyard

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In Our Own Tongues

By Talks

Renate shares a Pentecost message on the beauty and diversity of all of our spiritual giftings and a call for celebrating the contributions, in particular, of those who prophesy in ways beyond the use of words and text.

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Life In It’s Fullness

By Talks

Rachael asks how we do justice to the complexity of life in the way we hear this Sunday’s lectionary Bible readings and their visions of “Life In All Its Fullness,” and how we might live into these visions while reconciling them with “Life As It Really Is.”

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