Each week CrossWalk looks at Christian faith, the Bible and spirituality from a progressive perspective with deep roots of love.
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This teaching is all about the components of being connected to community and its' benefits, filled with lots of stories from CrossWalkers.By CrossWalk Community Church Napa
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Faith in Process: Stand for Grace and Justice
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Jesus modeled and taught "life in God" - the epitome of faith. A key component of his practice was standing with and for grace in his time. What did he do? What did he instruct? What will we do in our time?By CrossWalk Community Church Napa
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Want a faith that is vibrant like Jesus'? Try modeling your life and faith after his. This week, we talk about kneeling in service to others, taking time to think about motivations and what to do when serving no longer produces joy.By CrossWalk Community Church Napa
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If you desire a faith that enhances your life by bringing everything together and also brings more shalom into the world, lifeline learning is required. This teaching offers a range of biblical stories offering insights on the learning process so that we might have a clue how to do it!By CrossWalk Community Church Napa
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Unexpected Moments of Beauty in the Wilderness
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Associate Professor Jenny Matheny, Ph.D., Truett Seminary (Baylor) hits a home run with this teaching based on 1 Samuel 25:1-35 NRSVUE. Enjoy!By CrossWalk Community Church Napa
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If you are a human being, you live with regrets. We will hold them our full lives. How much they hold us is in part up to us. Hopefully this practical teaching will help you live your human life, with regrets and all.By CrossWalk Community Church Napa
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Jesus went back to his hometown and was rendered essentially powerless by the unbelief of people who were not willing to see him for more than he had been. This passage offers us a moment to learn about the process of transformation, so that we continue to grow in faith and not be the ones limiting the flow of the Spirit of God. This story also inv…
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Enjoy this incredibly rich, relevant story remembered from Jesus' life. May you reach for the tzitzit on the kanaph in pursuit of the sozo you want and the sozo you need!By CrossWalk Community Church Napa
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The tales of David and Goliath and Jesus calming the storm offer some wisdom for how we face our own giant storms.By CrossWalk Community Church Napa
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Jesus shared two provocative parables - one about sowing seeds and the other about mustard. How do these relate to our lives today? How do they inform our actions in a world that needs more shalom?By CrossWalk Community Church Napa
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We are prone to repeating and repeating and repeating behavior that keeps us in cycles that at least hold us back and sometimes cause enormous pain and suffering in ourselves, relationships, and world. There is a way forward that leads to freedom, health and growth for one and all.By CrossWalk Community Church Napa
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Space, Croissants, Trees, and an Expanding YOUniverse
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Enjoy this fantastic teaching offered by Angie Barker-Jackson, built around the story of God visiting Abraham under the trees of Mamre. Profound insights here!By CrossWalk Community Church Napa
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Stories connect us. Listen to these stories celebrating people in our lives who made a difference. Who is an unsung hero in your life?By CrossWalk Community Church Napa
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This week we take a look at the event that made this day the birthday of the Church, and spend some time celebrating CrossWalk's many people who make it such a great space.By CrossWalk Community Church Napa
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In this final segment of the teaching series informed by Diana Butler Bass' Freeing Jesus book, we pay special attention on the spiritual presence Jesus promised would come, with a special nod to the Spirit's feminine characteristics.By CrossWalk Community Church Napa
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John 14 offers a passage of hope that has also been used as a "clobber verse." In this teaching, we find help and hope from Diana Butler Bass - a different way of thinking about the word "except" that is truly liberating.By CrossWalk Community Church Napa
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Any of the titles we ascribe to God or Jesus both liberate and limit. Lord is both wonderful and problematic, helpful in some ways and restrictive in others. But what if the Lord's Kingdom has been misrepresented to us? What if our vision has been overly influenced by our conquering past and world-dominating Super Power present (hint: it has). This…
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History changed the understanding of savior into an otherworldly superhero who came to save the day and will come again to do it again a final time. Too bad that's not how Jesus - or his original audience - wanted to be known. Imagine how history would have unfolded differently if the actual rendering of the word savior as healer would have dominat…
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What does it mean for us to refer to Jesus as our teacher? When we appreciate that Jesus was referred to as "rabbi" we begin to get a better idea about who he was and what the relationship meant between the rabbi and their disciples.By CrossWalk Community Church Napa
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In this teaching, informed by the book, Freeing Jesus, by Diana Butler Bass, we take a look at Jesus as a friend. Note: the whole service was about friendship, including a game of Name That Tune, a short film and meditation based on friendship, and the teaching. If you'd like to watch it, go to our Live videos and check out 2024-04-07.…
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The Easter story is tricky. Do you think it's true? What does that mean? In this talk, we explore what it means to say something is true, give a nod to The Tower, offer a framework to understand and interpret mystical experiences, and consider what the point of Jesus was then and now. Hint: it has a lot to do with love.…
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Palm Sunday through Good Friday: Life in a
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Sometimes we don't experience the full impact of the story because we constantly break it up into smaller chunks. This week, enjoy hearing Mark's version of the full story of Jesus' last week of life with some breaks for reflection, a meditation, and some music from Mark 11, 14 and 15.By CrossWalk Community Church Napa
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The version of the death of Jesus as a sacrifice for sin is well known and has been effective in causing many to join the Christian faith. Yet there are aspects that are deeply problematic - so much so that many are leaving the faith because of ithem. The earliest understanding of the cross didn't see it as a means of forgiveness, but as a model fo…
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Sometimes not paying attention to the original language's meaning can lead to generations of misinformed and deformed faith...By CrossWalk Community Church Napa
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God - however we understand who and/or what God is - is all about the Hebrew concept of shalom. Deep peace, well-being, wholeness are some words in English that don't quite capture it. And then there's the beautiful mind-bender part of shalom that somehow brings together seeming opposites. When we embrace this fully, we discover that the most awful…
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Enjoy special guest teacher and CrossWalker, Rev. Dr. Angela Barker-Jackson, as she wraps up the Simplicity, Spirituality, and Service series dovetailing Bruce Epperly, James Cone, and lectionary texts.By CrossWalk Community Church Napa
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Jesus had his mind blown during his baptism, which sent him into the wilderness to sort out who he was, who he wanted to be, and what he wanted to be about. The temptations toward ego were strong, but he chose for God's shalom instead. When he came out of his time away, he essentially invited any and all others to do the same.…
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While mysticism born from meditation, contemplation, and other spiritual disciplines always affects more than just the devotee, we need to be reminded that all of the great voices and leaders who advanced shalom in the world gave themselves to the service of others or causes greater than themselves. What they experienced of the divine compelled the…
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How do we develop a faith that yields genuine compassion and not just inner peace? While daily practices surely help such development, perhaps it's the work we don't necessarily want to do that will transform us more into the form of Jesus.By CrossWalk Community Church Napa
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Jesus didn't just grow older, he grew wiser. He didn't just gain any kind of stature he developed a stature of personhood that was favorable to God and all people. He invites us to do the same.By CrossWalk Community Church Napa
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St. Francis, Clare, and Bonaventure fully devoted themselves to the Way of Christ. How did they do it? What can we learn from them?By CrossWalk Community Church Napa
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God evolves with us, always calling us toward shalom with shalom. How will we respond?By CrossWalk Community Church Napa
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Welcome to the first teaching in the new series, Simplicity, Spirituality, and Service, loosely based on Bruce Epperly's latest book by the same name. This week we are reminded of the essential component of Jesus' Gospel - the role of the Spirit - in forming our vision and steps to bring more and more shalom into our lives and world.…
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Enjoy these stories from CrossWalkers about their new beginnings! CrossWalkMoth is our play on NPR’s series that seeks to increase human connection through storytelling.By CrossWalk Community Church Napa
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No matter what you're going through, Love is with you and for you.By CrossWalk Community Church Napa
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It’s A Wonderful Life: Relationship is Everything
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Why didn't the folks of Bedford Falls come after George with torches and pitchforks once the arrest warrant was issued? Why did Luke want to draw our attention to Mary, the cave-barn, and the shepherds in the field the night Jesus was born? How was Jesus informed by his own birth narrative? What does this mean for how we live our lives as people of…
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How can we say "It's a Wonderful Life" or "Merry Christmas" when we're in a season of suckiness? The movie and the Christmas story give us some hints that offer help when faced with sucky situations and suckmeisters.By CrossWalk Community Church Napa
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There are similarities between the iconic Christmas movie and the birth narratives of Jesus. And, it turns out, the similarities extend to our own lives. There is gold here. And hope.By CrossWalk Community Church Napa
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The Natural, Unexpected Fruit of Gratitude: Politcs of Shalom
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The natural response when filled with gratitude is to be gracious and giving toward others, to become more interested in others' well-being. When communities work together for the wellbeing of others, this necessarily becomes political, as shalom calls faithful communities to ensure shalom's development for everything, everyone, everywhere.…
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Feasting together is nothing new. Our ancient Jewish ancestors have been coming together for thousands of years to remember and reset their lives. Thanksgiving affords us the opportunity to do the same.By CrossWalk Community Church Napa
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This week we focus on the decisions we make that help us cultivate a life of gratitude, even regarding difficult scenes from our past that we struggle to reconcile.By CrossWalk Community Church Napa
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Gratitude improves our experience of life and even our physical wellbeing. Yet sometimes we struggle to be grateful. This talk help us sort out our gratitude feelings and offers some insight for the journey ahead.By CrossWalk Community Church Napa
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The problem of evil is a significant reason many people leave the faith. The classic paradigm works for many, yet a growing number of people cannot accept a perspective that ultimately holds God responsible for the evil in the world that God could apparently thwart if desired. Open and Relational Theology offers another perspective that makes more …
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Entangled Prayer Week Seven: New Every Morning
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Synopsis. The heavens declare the goodness of God. Creation itself – from the smallest organisms to the expanding universe – are generative, life-supporting, and beautiful. Such a trajectory means that the guiding energy or force behind it is supportive, creative, faithful, reliable, consistent, generous, caring, and many other words that, taken to…
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Entangled Prayer Week Six: Healing the World
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This teaching features the perspective of three Process theologians: Marjorie Suchocki, Bruce Epperly, and Monica Coleman. Suchocki begins with an overview of prayer from a Process lens, followed by related thoughts from Epperly and Coleman. The latter two then address the question of praying for healing, specifically, offering their own "how to" a…
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Entangled Prayer Week 5: World-Transforming Prayer
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The deconstruction and reconstruction process of faith – which we should expect to be an ongoing experience throughout our lives – can be extremely challenging at times. We may certainly wonder if God is even real. Such massive questions impact our confidence and interest in prayer. Sometimes we give up. Jesus instructs us to keep on praying, thoug…
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Entangled Prayer Week 4: Spiritual Adventures
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Prayer is about living and breathing attuned to God in a dynamic relationship. We do our best to remain conscious of the spiritual sea we’re all swimming in, responsive to the winds of the spirit, and humble enough to admit that we may have been nudged by God without knowing it was God, which should elicit awe. When lived this way, life is truly a …
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Entangled Prayer Week 3: Christ is Alive!
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Christ is the environment in which we all live and breathe and have our being. It connects us, comforts us, inspires us, heals us, moves us, woos us. Christ is that aspect of God that is always on the move everywhere, in everything, the Source of ongoing creative energy, novelty, ingenuity. Much larger than the focus of God’s presence on one leader…
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Entangled Prayer Week 3: The Adventurous God
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We continue moving forward, deeper into what it means to be attuned to God's wooing us to be partners in bring more and more love and beauty into the world. What does it say about God that we wold be invited to such an adventure?By CrossWalk Community Church Napa
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The teaching this week happened to dovetail nicely with the lectionary texts being used by thousands of churches worldwide this week: Psalm 119:33-40 (MSG) GOD, teach me lessons for living so I can stay the course. Give me insight so I can do what you tell me— my whole life one long, obedient response. Guide me down the road of your commandments; I…
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