Connected Faith: Zacchaeus

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In today's video, Jefferson explores the story of Zacchaeus and how Zacchaeus's need to see Jesus led to him being seen by Jesus. In Zacchaeus, Jesus saw what h...

Connected Faith: The Samaritan Woman

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Amanda explores the baggage we carry with us, both literally and figuratively, and encourages us to consider the ways Jesus invites us to put down our baggage a...

Connected Faith: The Good Samaritan

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In our crazy, hectic lives, Carlos considers the way we treat our time as currency, something that must be protected and hoarded. The story of the Good Samarita...

Connected Faith: The Gentile Woman's Daughter

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An interview with Ingrid McIntyre, the executive director of Open Table Nashville, against the story of the Gentile Woman's Daughter helps us explore what it me...

Connected Faith: In the Beginning

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In today's video, Sarah explores what it means that God's creativity is imbued in us. Through an old family recipe, Sarah learns that our creativity, like God's...

Connected Faith: God Creates Humankind

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Through a comparison of the first two creation stories in Genesis, we see two different images of God. Sarah compares these two stories and explores what the pe...

Connected Faith: The Thick Darkness Where God Was

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Sarah explores our relationship with darkness, why so many fear darkness, and what our relationship with darkness means for a scripture that tells us of the pre...

Connected Faith: God's First Creation

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This visual presentation of Proverbs 8 gives us an entrance point in exploring wisdom as an attribute of God.

Connected Faith: God's Ultimate Messenger

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This interfaith conversation with Julie Greenberg and Sarah Jennings explores the ways the Christian and Jewish faiths understand God's revelation on earth.

Connected Faith: Sinning Against the Lord

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A science experiment provides insight into the story of Achan and the ways our sin doesn't stay contained within the experience, but permeates all of our lives ...

Connected Faith: A Prayer of Repentance

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Psalm 51 is a well-known prayer of repentance. Scott speaks the words of the prayer and explores the concept of repentance and its powerful ability to transform...

Connected Faith: Being Born Anew

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What does it mean to be born anew? Scott seeks to understand what it means to be continually born again through considering the story of a friend who finds new ...

Connected Faith: Our New Life in Christ

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Spiritual practices enable us to embody routine that shapes and forms our spiritual life, providing paths to be transformed by God. In this video, Scott conside...

Connected Faith: God First

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How do we incorporate a relationship with God into every aspect of our lives, instead of relegating it to another item on our to-do list? Join April as she cons...

Connected Faith: Worshiping the Gold Bull Calf

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The story of the Israelites creating the Gold Bull Calf helps us consider our own relationship with idols and our desire to fix issues quickly instead of waitin...

Connected Faith: The Real God

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We often try to understand God within the limits of our own vocabulary or experiences. Habakkuk's words remind us that God is much more than we can comprehend.

Connected Faith: Paul in Athens

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Paul's experience in Athens provides a challenge to us to seek to have a deep relationship with God, and a reminder that God calls each of us to that deep relat...

Connected Faith: Trusting With Hope

Through Abram's story of building altars along his journey, Sam challenges us to explore our understanding of sanctuary and worship, challenging our preconceive...

Connected Faith: Faith and Hope

The word "co-heir" tells us that our faith is not individual, but is wrapped up in those who have come before and those who will come after us. Join Sam as she ...

Connected Faith: Hope for New Things

As we long for and experience new things, are we willing to let go of the old to make room for that newness? Sam encourages us to consider what it would mean to...

Connected Faith: Hope Fulfilled

That news of Jesus came to Joseph in a dream causes Sam to consider the importance of our dreams today. After the moment of clarity has become fuzzy, how do we ...

Connected Faith: Hope for Spirit-Filled Living

In the opening verses of Acts, Jesus' disciples are told to wait for the Holy Spirit. Sam explores this transitional time, times of waiting, and how we are shap...

Connected Faith: God's Covenant with Abram

In the opening verses of Acts, Jesus’ disciples are told to wait for the Holy Spirit. Sam explores this transitional time, times of waiting, and how we a...

Connected Faith: Ruth's Covenant with Naomi

We hear Ruth's commitment to Naomi so often that we might forget its true importance. What does it mean to truly commit to walking with someone through life, wh...

Connected Faith: God's Covenant with David

Zach helps us see how David's desire to build a temple for God is an expression of what David wants, not what God wants. God, instead, seeks to build a covenant...

Connected Faith: God's Covenant with Us

Even far from their home and from all things that remind them of God, Jeremiah's words reach the people and remind them of God's enduring presence. That same pr...

Connected Faith: Holy Place

In today's video, Sarah explores what makes a place holy and challenges us to consider the holy spaces in our lives.

Connected Faith: Holy Presence

What's the difference between a routine and a ritual? In today's video Sarah considers the difference between the two and encourages us to consider how our ritu...

Connected Faith: Holy People

In today's video, Sarah has a conversation with scripture, responding to the psalmist’s declarations.

Connected Faith: Holy Purpose

Sarah interviews Gabby and Scott Dannemiller about their experiences of seeking purpose and living into what they feel called to do, even when it doesn't make a...

Connected Faith: Keeping God's Commandments

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Beth explores the embodiment of keeping God's commandments, and how that embodiment shows both God's care for our physical bodies and the ways we can use routin...

Connected Faith: Elijah vs. Baal's Prophets

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Through the lens of Elijah and the Prophets of Baal, Beth asks us to consider literary genre in the Bible and how the ways we approach Scripture affect what we ...

Connected Faith: Discovery of the Scrolls

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Our collective memory writes the story of who we are, and remembering both our past triumphs and failures shapes us as a people.

Connected Faith: God, Though Jilted, Loves Nonetheless

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The prophetic writing in the book of Hosea is challenging. Beth challenges us to not put aside the complexity of the text while finding meaning there.

Connected Faith: God's Care for the Remnant

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The metaphor of God's people as sheep is a common occurrence in Scripture. Sarah explores this metaphor, looking for deeper meaning than we may be used to findi...

Connected Faith: The Community's Connection to God

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Sarah encourages us to consider the important role even small characters play in the scriptural stories, such as the soldier who guarded Daniel and his friends.

Connected Faith: God Is with the Faithful

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We are encouraged to bring a fresh look to the stories we likely heard as children as we approach them as adults.

Connected Faith: Remembering the Lord's Mighty Deeds

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Sarah challenges us to consider how the model of the Israelites rememberance can encourage us to be honest and faithful in how our remembering shapes who we are...

Connected Faith: Virtual People

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Adam explores his early experiences with technology and the ways in which our experiences with technology shape who we are.

Connected Faith: From Connection to Communion

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The internet provides opportunities for connection that can turn into communion. We can see God's direction guiding our lives online as well as "IRL," if we onl...

Connected Faith: Remote Intimacy

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While the internet can bring us together, we always confront a wall of separation when we engage with others via technology. Adam challenges us to be aware of t...

Connected Faith: Empty Minds, Disposable Bodies

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Trending away from the dangers of technology, we can be aware of the ways in which our senses are muted and seek out opportunities to engage our whole body in o...

Connected Faith: Googling Prayer

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How does our interaction via technology shape our expecations of our interaction with God? Looking at the expereince of prayer, Adam reminds us that a relations...

Connected Faith: Tech Sabbath

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Our final week considers spiritual practices associated with technology, and Adam explores an important practice: that of a tech sabbath. By shutting off our ac...

Connected Faith: The "Fall" of Adam and Eve

As children, we all likely had experiences of being “banished”—being sent away in punishment or not allowed to participate in something. Toi shares her ow...

Connected Faith: Jesus' Darkest Night

Though our experiences of darkness are unique and different, the central experience of feeling abandoned and alone is universal, so universal that even Jesus hi...

Connected Faith: Following a Fickle God

“Our story of faith is one of returning to the wilderness over and over again.” Toi explores what wilderness means, what it represents, and what purpose it ...

Connected Faith: Jesus in the Wilderness

Toi explores the spiritual practice of fasting, considering how it has been a part of our faith story and expanding our understanding of what it means to fast t...

Connected Faith: Banished

Time in the wilderness often follows the death or destruction of something momentous. At the end of 2 Kings, the Israelites find themselves in exile, facing the...

Connected Faith: The River of Life-Giving Water

Mary-Kate shares a personal story of life-giving water that didn’t remove the challenges or fears her family faced but instead provided light in the midst of ...

Connected Faith: God's Grace Toward Adam, Eve, and Cain

In today’s video, Mary-Kate explores the concept of being clothed by God, and considers how God’s clothing is both a means of protection and a means of grac...

Connected Faith: God Provides Food in the Wilderness

Mary-Kate takes a closer look not just at the manna God provided the Israelites in the wilderness, but the way in which that manna was provided—daily, and req...

Connected Faith: Grace to the Dying Thief

In today’s interview, Mary-Kate and Bo Myers discuss what salvation and grace mean in their local contexts and how our understanding of the grace Jesus offere...

Connected Faith: The Holy Spirit Inspires Jesus' Followers

This video incorporates the words from the prophet Joel shared by Peter at Pentecost in a variety of languages, allowing viewers to experience just a taste of t...

Connected Faith: Jesus Dies on a Cross

Jesus’ death has become such a central understanding in Christian contexts that it’s difficult to comprehend that he was crucified because his behavior was ...

Connected Faith: Jesus is Raised

In today's video, Keith considers how the proclamation of Jesus’ resurrection first by women shows how God moves in our world outside of our normal expectatio...

Connected Faith: Rebuilding the Temple

As the people of Israel are called to rebuild the temple, the struggle to complete the task. Perhaps they are still too caught up in what was to move forward to...

Connected Faith: John Prepares the Way for Christ

We often identify with the hero of the story. But John the Baptist’s proclamation of the coming Messiah reminds us that we each have an important place in the...