We wrapped up the series by looking how the stories of healing in Mark encourage us to seek and offer grace to those far and near in our lives.

This week we look at four more stories in Mark, to see how Mark uses a package of confrontations to bring differences to the surface and show us how Jesus steadily works on expanding our imagination of the kingdom of God and what the good news is all about.

This week we looked at Mark 1 and 2 and a sequence of four healing stories. Mark uses the narrative itself as a tool to give us a picture of what the kingdom of God is like when we grasp its communal aspect and see how God is at work to heal everything that separates us.

Let's delve into the transformative power of grace, using the parable of the Prodigal Son as our guide. Join us as we unpack this profound story, exploring themes of unconditional love, redemption, and divine acceptance.

Join us for an enlightening exploration of atonement in Christianity, as we delve into the powerful narrative of Luke 7. This sermon brings to life the profound faith lessons found in a simple dinner with a Pharisee and an unknown woman's act of love. Discover the transformative power of Jesus, not as a fixer of God, but as our path to understanding and perceiving God. Let's together explore our faith in Jesus and see ourselves as God sees us - flawed yet deeply loved.

Last week we talked about the words and the Word and how important it is to keep Jesus at the centre of our imagination. Our question for today though is how that conviction shapes how we read the Bible. Our second affirmation at Commons is this: The scriptures lead us to the realization that Jesus is the only exact representation of the divine and that God has always looked like Jesus even when we didn’t see that clearly. With Jesus being our north star for navigating the Bible, we will look at three examples of reading the Bible through Jesus.

We want to begin this year by setting the framework for how we believe together (and how we continue to become together), and that can be found on the very first page on our journal. In this sermon series we will work through those six affirmations that open our journal year year. In this first message, Jeremy addressed the first affirmation: “We are completely fascinated with this complex and beautiful collection of texts we call the Bible - but we worship Jesus.”