Each week CrossWalk looks at Christian faith, the Bible and spirituality from a progressive perspective with deep roots of love.
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Starry Nights Week One: Is Advent Still Relevant
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Perhaps the vision of the Second Coming of Christ in the traditional sense can no longer be taken literally or seriously. There may be a better version hidden in plain sight that squares better with the Jewish Jesus, history, and our collective experience. Caution: heresy ahead!Oleh CrossWalk Community Church Napa
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Gratitude alone is a tremendous force for good. Add faith to the mix, and it's power increases exponentially.Oleh CrossWalk Community Church Napa
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We welcome Brian Henderson to the stage. He is the Executive Director of the Association of Welcoming and Affirming Baptists, a global organization supporting churches who are or are becoming welcoming and affirming especially of the LGBTQ+ community.Oleh CrossWalk Community Church Napa
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From Soup to Shalom: Generosity
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Enjoy the last segment of this great series offered by Angie Barker-Jackson!Oleh CrossWalk Community Church Napa
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Enjoy this teaching from Angie Barker Jackson as she takes us deeper in to the transformational power of community!Oleh CrossWalk Community Church Napa
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Stone Soup to Shalom Wee 1: Transformed By Humility
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Enjoy Rev. Dr. Angie Barker Jackson's kickoff to the three-week series!Oleh CrossWalk Community Church Napa
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In this series finale informed by Mark Feldmeir's book, Life After God, we take a look at stages of faith development and what motivates us to embrace faith in the first place. We also consider what happens after we die and what hope we have related to our faith.Oleh CrossWalk Community Church Napa
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What do we do with mystical experiences? How do they fit with our tradition, with reason?Oleh CrossWalk Community Church Napa
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Life After God Week 3: Hmm (the aim of God)
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Despite what you have ben told, while God does love you, God does not have a plan for your life. God does love you, but has more of a vision or a dream of what life can be. Not one way, but a broad range of ways that are guided by the shalom of God. And, great news! God supports you and I toward this vision even if we veer off course.…
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Life After God Part 2, Psst! (the call of God)
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This teaching, informed by Mark Feldmeir's book, Life After God, has us take a look at how we view God's power, which affects how we engage God. Is God an all-powerful being who commands or more relationally-oriented, inviting all creation forward?Oleh CrossWalk Community Church Napa
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Life After God 1: shh (the problem of god)
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Enjoy the first week of the Life After God series, where we wonder what the role of doubt plays in the experience of faith. This series is informed by Mark Feldmeir's book by the same name.Oleh CrossWalk Community Church Napa
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Enjoy this scholarly presentation by Eric Seibert as he helps us figure out how to understand and "handle" some of the ugliest parts of the Bible - where God appears to be the origin of apparent evil.Oleh CrossWalk Community Church Napa
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Enjoy this powerful teaching by CrossWalker Rev. Dr. Angela Barker-Jackson.Oleh CrossWalk Community Church Napa
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Faith in Process: Putting the Pieces Together
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In the conclusion of this series, we look at what living the faith looks like in one frame. We are invited to follow Jesus, whereby saying yes means we will actually try to follow Jesus in order to experience the life and faith he enjoyed. This involves stretching our minds (lifelong learning), kneeling in service to others, standing for grace and …
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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.Oleh 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?Oleh 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.Oleh 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!Oleh 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!Oleh 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.Oleh 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!Oleh 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.Oleh 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?Oleh CrossWalk Community Church Napa
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i8: The First Step Toward Freedom
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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.Oleh 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!Oleh 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?Oleh 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.Oleh 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.Oleh 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.Oleh 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.Oleh 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.Oleh 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...Oleh CrossWalk Community Church Napa
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Toward Shalom, With Shalom, For Shalom
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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.Oleh 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.Oleh 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.Oleh 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?Oleh CrossWalk Community Church Napa
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God evolves with us, always calling us toward shalom with shalom. How will we respond?Oleh 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.Oleh CrossWalk Community Church Napa
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No matter what you're going through, Love is with you and for you.Oleh 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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