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Message: “Nothing Wasted” from Brandi Miller

A message from the series “Nothing Wasted.” Life with Jesus is inherently about connection and wholeness with the creator, with other people, and with the creation and land itself. As we launch our new series Nothing Wasted centered on our relationship with the earth, we will explore what happens when our relationship to the creation is broken and how connection with the community of creation is central to what it means to human, to be whole, and to be free.

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Message: “Waiting to Exhale” from Pastor Brenda Salter McNeil

A message from the series “Nothing Wasted.” This Sunday, Pastor Brenda will preach a sermon entitled, “Waiting to Exhale,” because as humans, living in a fast-paced society with demanding schedules, we are building up pressure and stress that must be released. For some people it may seem like a waste of time, but in truth, we experience the healing power of God by interacting with nature, which gives us space to breathe and time to renew our souls.

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Message: “Your Package Was Delivered” from Dr. Brian Bantum

A message from the series “Nothing Wasted.” As we’ve begun our series on “Nothing Wasted,” we’ve begun to look at our relationship to creation. Paul says that “all creation is groaning.” We feel this pain all too well. In the face of the pain, in the midst of just trying to survive, we can find ourselves accumulating things as a way of coping or surviving or creating some ease—and this adds to pain of creation itself. It feels like a never-ending cycle. But it’s never just as simple as “escaping from worldly things.” Join us as Dr. Brian Bantum discusses the questions of what our relationship should be to creation, to God, to each other, and to the things we’ve surrounded ourselves with. And what does it look like to say “nothing is wasted” in our lives together?

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