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What is the center of our lives? Of our faith and spirituality? Though there are many ideas, Jesus says the center is simple and profound — love. Centering our life, our work, our families, our faith, our growth, and our goals around love — love of God and neighbor and ourselves — gives us a purpose and place and path in tune with the loving heart of God. Discover the life revolution when we let all we are and all we do revolve around love.
What is the center of our lives? Of our faith and spirituality? Though there are many ideas, Jesus says the center is simple and profound — love. Centering our life, our work, our families, our faith, our growth, and our goals around love — love of God and neighbor and ourselves — gives us a purpose and place and path in tune with the loving heart of God. Discover the life revolution when we let all we are and all we do revolve around love.
What is the center of our lives? Of our faith and spirituality? Though there are many ideas, Jesus says the center is simple and profound — love. Centering our life, our work, our families, our faith, our growth, and our goals around love — love of God and neighbor and ourselves — gives us a purpose and place and path in tune with the loving heart of God. Discover the life revolution when we let all we are and all we do revolve around love.
How do we center out public action around love? How do we advocate for love in the public square? To paraphrase Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., we pursue love as a society by pursuing justice. Join us in this series as we discover the life revolution when we let all we are and all we do revolve around love.
What is the center of our lives? Of our faith and spirituality? Though there are many ideas, Jesus says the center is simple and profound — love. Centering our life, our work, our families, our faith, our growth, and our goals around love — love of God and neighbor and ourselves — gives us a purpose and place and path in tune with the loving heart of God. Discover the life revolution when we let all we are and all we do revolve around love.
As we enter a new decade in a world full of heartache, how can we cultivate a child-like spirit? Let's remember the important things in life and claim our belonging as a community.
In Jesus' time, shepherds were total outcasts, living on the outskirts of the communities among their flock. They didn't have basic rights and were not welcome into the rest of society. Yet, God sent a messenger to share the good news of Jesus' birth with them first. Let's take a look at the invitational heart of God shown in the story of Christmas.
The Magi were a royal, priestly class from Persia likely seeking God and science through astrology and astronomy. They followed the star and it led them to Jesus, guiding us to an epiphany—an unexpected finding. Have you found your star? Let's explore this incredible story together this week at Open.
What does it mean that God chose to intersect with humanity as a baby—the most vulnerable among us, into a vulnerable situation, in the middle of nowhere? Join us this week as we seek to learn from the story of baby Jesus.
There’s a reason Jesus didn’t say blessed are the peacekeepers. Making peace is an active, evolving call to create change, build others up, and seek justice in the world around us. So how can we be peacemakers this holiday season? Check out this sermon for some helpful tips.
Covenants define our relationships—they set expectations, help us find clarity and identity, and create a way of life. Before Jesus, the old covenant set an expectation that those who wanted to be in relationship with God would keep the commandments, and that they would obey and be blessed in return. But Jesus’ new covenant was somehow simple and even more difficult than keeping all 613 of the old commandments—to love God and to love our neighbors as we love ourselves.
In our world, it’s the norm to look out for ourselves first—to make sure that we’re taken care of. We’re taught to climb the ladder of success, to seek out the corner office, and to provide first for our own. Yet, Jesus laid out a different way, the way of servanthood. Jesus shocked his followers when he proclaimed that greatness is really about serving others and that even though the world around us says to look out for ourselves, we find our own greatness when we look out for our neighbors. Check out this week’s message to unpack the way of servanthood!
Not worrying is easier said than done—especially when there’s so much to worry about! But Jesus had a different way, reminding us that worrying doesn’t bring life, it really only takes it away. Worry creates a narrow space, yet God answers expansively—opening us up and reminding us to seek life first.
We all have a lot to do—and there's so much more that we wish we could do! Most of us are doing so much, that we tire, feel depleted, or crash. But when we pause to remember to just be—that all of our doing flows from just being beloved—then we can go with renewed strength and remembering that self-care and rest are important along the way.
We are the light of the world and each of us glows with the love of God in the depth of who we are. Today, Pastor Kake helps us discover this truth through stories from the Bible, from the world, and from our community, highlighting a new LGBTQIA+-led Open group—Glow by Open. May your light shine bright!
Discover how generosity opens our spirit, connects our lives, and opens ourselves to take us even deeper into who we are created to be!
Jonathan shares the story of Open’s origin—how our tagline “Radical Love, Uniquely Denton” came to be, where our logo came from, and how Open became so much more than anyone ever dreamed it would be.
Jesus was a wallbreaker—he tore down dividing lines and made sure to emphasize that all are equal and welcome in the kingdom of God! Join us this week as we look into the Openness of God.
Last week, we found that God’s invitation to us is to be for our city—to seek the holistic flourishing of our neighbors and communities. What does this really look like? Jesus once shared a parable—that the kingdom of God is like a mustard seed was sowed and grew to become a tree offering shelter and life to the world. What kind of seeds are we sowing in our cities? Let’s sow seeds that give shelter, support our neighbors, and offer radical love to our world.
When the people of Israel were in exile, they didn't know what to do. The Babylonian empire conquered them and expected them to assimilate into Babylonian culture. Jeremiah brought the radical word of God that was so different than what they expected—to seek the wholistic, universal flourishing of the city they were in. God called them to be for their neighbors, not against them. Check out this sermon and see how this is still God's radical message for us today.
