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July 31_Lost in Translation: How to Love Gay People and the Bible

Micah tackles 1 Corinthians 6:9-11, a passage at the root of many disagreements around human sexuality in the Christian Church. On August 14th Micah will engage Romans 1 as a part two if this discussion.

July 24_Lost in Translation: Pharaoh’s Heart

Exodus 4:19-21 Does God engineer the hardening of Pharaoh's heart against the Israelites? Micah discusses when we ourselves start to become set in ways of thinking and being.

July 17_Lost in Translation: Eating of a Firstborn

2 Kings 6:24-7:2 Micah tackles a real zinger of a passage where someone eats their firstborn and their neighbors children amidst a famine in Israel. What's really going on in this passage?

July 10_Lost in Translation: Rapture or Resurrection?

1 Thess 4:13-18 This is the passage that many use to legitimize the idea of the rapture and Christians being taken away to heaven.

June 26_Philippians: Contentment

Philippians 4:10-23 I have learned to be content in all circumstances. Jenna discusses the wrestling we sometimes experience with verses like this.

June 19_Q&A for the ECC Annual Meeting

Micah provides background to this weeks annual meeting with the ECC and answers questions from the congregation.

June 12_Philippians: Heaven on Earth

Philippians 3:12-21 mentions heaven and usually this gets put into the category of "up there someday when we die", yet Paul in verses 20-21 makes clear that Jesus brings "heaven" to us in these bodies on this earth.

May 29_Philippians: Shine Like Stars

Philippians 2:12-18 says to work out your salvation with fear and trembling. What does that mean and what does it actually mean to "shine like stars in the universe"?

May 22_Philippians: Cruciform Hope

The first half of the poem is the cruciform life…a path of descent, humility and sacrifice. The second half of the poem is the daring hope that in the end God redeems all that God created.

May 15_Philippians:One Mind and Spirit

Striving together AS ONE without fear of opposition knowing that suffering may come.