Common Problems - Week 4 | Ephesians 4:25-32 Picture this. You are holding a clear cup filled to the top with coffee, walking carefully across the kitchen. Somebody comes around the corner and slams right into you. Coffee goes everywhere: all over your shirt, all over the floor. Here is a question worth sitting with. Why did coffee come out of the cup? The instinctive answer is "because somebody bumped into me." That is fair, but it is not actually right. Coffee came out beca

Common Problems — Week 2 | Matthew 6:1–18 The Noise Goes Deeper Than You Think It takes no great thought to understand that the world has always been a noisy place. For most of history, the environment of human life (markets, crowds, conflict, community) has contained the noise, or rather, relegated it to a certain part of the world. But something shifted over the centuries of human existence. The noise stopped being a byproduct of living and became a product, something engin