From the dusty echoes of rotary phones to the flicker of read receipts, “Messages” is a lyrical time capsule tracing how we’ve always tried to be heard. This boom-bap/lo-fi fusion captures the heartache, hope, and humor hidden in how we communicate—through paper, pixel, and silence. With rich wordplay and textured production, it bridges vintage analog soul with modern digital angst. Vinyl crackle meets chopped jazz licks and dusty snares, riding under a warm, slightly raspy vocal soaked in analog delay.

For fans of J. Cole, Mac Miller, Kendrick Lamar, and Nas, this track reflects on love, loss, and connection in the era of notifications and nostalgia.
Whether it’s a voicemail elegy or a meme confession, “Messages” speaks for every moment we couldn’t quite say what we felt—but still sent it anyway.

MESSAGES MESSAGES

Speaker: Sara Nielson
Scripture: John 4:10-15
http://bible.com/events/49472871

August 3, 2025 "This Is Living Water"

We've got the end of the story of Noah and the Ark. This will be a broad, sweeping retelling of the story starting in Genesis 6. This is a conventional divine judgment story. God looks at the state of humanity and has some regrets - decides it's time to wipe the whole thing out - system reboot - clean slate. God decides to do what nearly all Near Eastern deities do - start over.

But then, in Israel's story, something amazing happens. God has a change of heart. God notices Noah and his family and gets a little worried. In the middle of this horrific story we have a brand new and radical idea emerging in the ancient world: God isn't an angry tyrant who needs to be placated. God is more like a concerned parent - a father/mother grieving for a lost child.

In order for this new emerging idea about God to persist, Noah needs to survive. So God gives him an ark. God saves Noah. God makes a promise - never again will God flood the earth. And God gives the rainbow as a symbol. A rainbow. An upside-down symbol of violence. The symbol of violence is turned into a symbol of God's promise to love and care for all the earth - every living creature, for all generations. This is a radically inclusive promise.

But this story isn't just about God. It also tells the truth about us. If left alone, we're doomed. Not much has changed in thousands of years. We're still nasty, disobedient, and violent. 

There's also the truth about the ark. God gives us the ark. We have an ark in a stormy world - and there are some crazy waves out there.

Let's remember the truth of the promise and the rainbow - God's promise to love and care for all the earth - through all generations. AND there's the truth about the symbol the rainbow foreshadows - the truth about the cross. It's another symbol of violence that Jesus turned into a symbol of God's grace and unconditional love for all of humanity. God's grace covers us and then God sends us out into the world with that same grace.

Speaker: Aaron Vis
Scripture: Genesis 9:8-17
http://bible.com/events/49476084

August 10, 2025 "An Ark In A Stormy World"

This is one of my favorite - if not my favorite story about Jesus. It's not a healing - it's not miraculous - it's Jesus' first sermon. In it, he pretty much frames what his whole life has been and will be all about.

I'm going to help us visualize the story by describing in detail what things might have looked like.  Let's talk through the movements - the scroll, the attendant, the pointer, the Moses Seat. I like it. Jesus reads from Isaiah, and says that this scripture is fulfilled in their hearing. He's claiming the whole freedom for the captives, setting prisoners free, sight to the blind stuff as what his whole life was going to be about - essentially because that's what God has been up to all along.

His hometown people like what they hear but they're skeptical. Jesus moves on - and essentially preaches a sermon that condemns his own people - they should have been about this the whole time - but they haven't been. Then, the people try to kill him. Yeah, like whaaaat? 

Some thoughts here. First, sometimes God chooses to speak to us in unexpected ways - ways we sometimes reject.

Next, sometimes anger and violence and compromising integrity are the last defense of those who have to face the truth of their crooked religious affirmations.

Finally - and we talked through this in our The Bible...Really? class. Sometimes we have to read the Bible creatively. Jesus quotes Scripture - but he cuts some of it out. He leaves the violence and destruction out of it. He reads Isaiah within the context of the whole Bible, which leads to God not destroying the world, but healing it.

Speaker: Aaron Vis
Scripture: Luke 4:14-30
http://bible.com/events/49478832

August 17, 2025 "Freedom For The Captives"

Danny talks us through one of our 3 focus values for the 2025/26 ministry year. 

We Take the Time

Because we practice what we preach, we're spending an extra week on "We take the time." Danny talks about spending quality time with Jesus in our journey to become more like Him. 

The Proof is in His Presence

Medjugorje le message 2025-09-06 Messages de juin, juillet et août 2025

(Apologies for the late upload, this sermon was previously posted the week of the 24th but didn't process correctly the first time)

The calling of Abraham next to the calling of Matthew. I've done this before - this time we come at it from a very different angle. Change for us human beings is difficult. It's less of a point I'm making, and more of a way for us to feel something as we enter into the stories.

First let's look at the story of Abraham and Sarah's initial calling. Here we have another foundational story. And in it, faith seems to be defined as people responding to the voice of God calling them into change and uncertainty. This is interesting - since for the past 100 or so years faith has been defined as being certain about different ideas about God, Jesus, the Spirit, humanity, the Bible - etc. But here, at the beginning of the Bible, we have a story defining faith as a journey into the uncertain.

This is where the story of Matthew comes into play. He leaves his tax booth and follows Jesus. During the beginning of his journey he comes into contact with unclean people - marginalized people (ironically, he's one of those marginalized, too). And in coming into close proximity with them as he follows Jesus (loving people), I wonder if his thinking about them is changed, too.

Maybe faith is less about being certain about a set of ideas and beliefs about God or anything, really - and it's more about going, leaving, moving into the uncertain future trusting that God will be with you and that blessing is coming.

Speaker: Aaron Vis
Scripture: Genesis 12:1-9; Matthew 9:9-13
http://bible.com/events/49482587

August 24, 2025 "Our Call During Uncertainty"

Jesus isn't holding anything back - he's letting the crowd know what it's going to cost to actually follow him. I appreciate that about Jesus - let's get all the cards on the table!

We're going to spend a lot of time asking some questions, and these questions aren't necessarily going to be easy to answer. That's okay.

Here are the questions that will help us get at the heart of the "cost of discipleship."
1) Who is my "we"? How narrow or wide is the circle that includes "my people"? Are we willing to risk a "we" that goes beyond race, religion, gender, sexuality, politics, etc?
2) What do I think is mine? What do we hold on to more tightly than the divine?
3) What are we willing to hate? In other words, what are we willing to let go - to move beyond? Beliefs? Traditions? What source of safety and security do we trust more than the divine?
4) What version of the faith are we selling? The easy kind? Or the kind that has only one non-negotiable? Self sacrificing, self giving love?

Speaker: Aaron Vis
Scripture: Luke 14:25-35
http://bible.com/events/49489368

September 7, 2025 "The Cost of Discipleship"


Vous êtes-vous déjà demandé si les coïncidences qui jalonnent votre vie cachent un sens plus profond ?  Dans cet épisode captivant du podcast "Élan de Vie", Fanta Diane, consultante au projet de vie et réflexologue, nous plonge dans l'univers fascinant de la synchronicité.  Fanta partage sa conviction profonde que la vie nous envoie quotidiennement des signes et des messages, que ce soit à travers des rencontres inattendues, des lectures inspirantes ou des coïncidences troublantes.  Ces moments ne sont pas de simples hasards, mais des rendez-vous avec l'univers, des occasions précieuses qui nous guident sur notre chemin de vie. 




Au fil de cet épisode, Fanta encourage chacun d'entre nous à développer notre capacité à lire et interpréter ces signes.  Elle nous propose des conseils pratiques, comme tenir un journal des synchronicités, afin de mieux prêter attention aux messages qui nous entourent.  La méditation et le silence intérieur sont également mis en avant comme des outils essentiels pour capter ces précieuses informations.  Fanta nous invite à créer un espace de calme où nous pouvons nous connecter à notre intuition et entendre les murmures de l'univers. 




À travers des anecdotes personnelles et des réflexions profondes, cet épisode de "Élan de Vie" nous pousse à réfléchir sur les synchronicités que nous avons remarquées récemment et sur la manière dont nous les interprétons.  Que ce soit pour éclairer nos choix, comprendre nos émotions ou simplement pour trouver un sens à notre existence, Fanta nous offre une perspective enrichissante sur la façon dont nous pouvons accueillir ces signes dans notre vie quotidienne. 




Si vous êtes en quête de sens, si vous vous sentez perdu ou si vous aspirez à un accompagnement dans votre parcours de vie, cet épisode est fait pour vous.  Écoutez Fanta Diane partager ses connaissances et sa sagesse sur la synchronicité, et laissez-vous inspirer par ses conseils bienveillants.  Rejoignez-nous pour découvrir comment ces moments magiques peuvent transformer votre vision du monde et vous guider vers une vie plus épanouissante. 




Ne manquez pas cette occasion unique d'explorer le pouvoir des synchronicités avec "Élan de Vie".  Que vous soyez un expert en quête de sens ou simplement curieux d'en savoir plus, cet épisode vous apportera des clés pour ouvrir votre cœur et votre esprit aux messages que la vie vous envoie chaque jour. 


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