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Aug 21_Lost in Translation: Different Creation Stories

There are two different tellings of creation in Genesis 1 and 2. Micah pieces together the essence of this commonly misunderstood discrepancy and explores what it says about who God is.

Aug 14_Lost in Translation: How to Love Gay People and the Bible Pt. 2

This week Micah takes on Romans 1:18-32 and the patriarchal system in which it is contextualized. This discussion follows up the July 31 message on 1 Corinthians 6.

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"?