What images do we use for justice? What images do we use for grace? And where do they intersect?
Forgiveness
What images of forgiveness come to mind? How do we live that out as individuals and as communities?
Conflict
What is your default on conflict management? What do you automatically go to? How have you seen it done well when you were the one who was the offender? And how do we work this out in our lives together?
Giving Thanks to God
It is November and for me that means thinking about Thanksgiving and the spirit of gratitude. Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday as we enter into this holiday season and really when I think about holidays all year, Thanksgiving tops the
Building Bridges, Climbing Trees
Sermon by Rev. Richard Feyen,delivered Sunday, October 30, 2022at First Christian Church in Las Cruces. First Reading: “Selected Sermons and Writing” by Pauli MurraySecond Reading: Luke 19:1-10 from Eugene Peterson’s “The Message” translation Here, in this space where we gather,
Stumbling Over The Carpet
Sermon by Rev. Richard Feyen,delivered Sunday, October 23, 2022at First Christian Church in Las Cruces. First Reading: “Be Nobody” by Lama MarutSecond Reading: Luke 18:9-14 from Eugene Peterson’s “The Message” translation Several years ago Peggy and I took a vacation
Ask Boldly – Live Justly
Sermon by Rev. Richard Feyen,delivered Sunday, October 16, 2022at First Christian Church in Las Cruces. First Reading: “Paradise in Plain Sight: Lessons from a Zen Garden” by Karen Maezen MillerSecond Reading: Luke 18:1-8 from Eugene Peterson’s “The Message” translation This
80/20 or 90/10
Sermon by Rev. Richard FeyenDelivered Sunday, October 9, 2022First Christian Church in Las Cruces. First Reading: “We Make the Road by Walking” by Brian D. McLarenSecond Reading: Luke 17:5-10 from Eugene Peterson’s “The Message” translation
What is Faith … Faith is DOING
Sermon by Rev. Richard FeyenDelivered Sunday, October 2, 2022First Christian Church in Las Cruces. First Reading: “We Make the Road by Walking” by Brian D. McLarenSecond Reading: Luke 17:5-10 from Eugene Peterson’s “The Message” translation
Inspired: Church Stories
Sermon from June 27, 2021 Personal Instructions 9 Do your best to come to me soon, 10 for Demas, in love with this present world, has deserted me and gone to Thessalonica; Crescens has gone to Galatia,[a] Titus to Dalmatia. 11 Only Luke is with me.