Rising in Love Part 6: Love never fails
Blog by Nikayla Reize Love never fails. But as for prophecies, they will come to an end; as for tongues, they will cease; as for...
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- Feb 9, 2023
- 6 min
Rising in Love Part 5: Love tolerates all things, love trusts in all things, love hopes for all thin
Blog by Nikayla Reize Love tolerates all things, trusts in all things, hopes for all things. -1 Cor 13:7 The permanence of this text is...
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- Feb 2, 2023
- 11 min
Rising in Love Part 4: Love Keeps no Record of Wrongs
Blog by Nikayla Reize Love keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not rejoice about injustice, but love rejoices about the truth. The Greek...
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- Jan 26, 2023
- 6 min
Rising in Love Part 3: Love is not rude.
Blog by Nikayla Reize Love is patient and kind. Love isn’t jealous, boastful, or arrogant. Love isn’t rude. Love doesn’t insist on its...
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- Jan 20, 2023
- 12 min
Rising in Love Part 2: Love isn’t envious, boastful, or arrogant
Blog by Nikayla Reize Love is patient, love is kind. Love isn’t envious, boastful, or arrogant. – 1 Corinthians 13:4 I’ve been using the...
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- Jan 12, 2023
- 13 min
Rising in Love Part 1: Love Is Patient, Love is Kind
Blog by Nikayla Reize I hate to admit this but only two weeks ago I was emailing with another pastor in our denomination who admittedly,...
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- Jun 26, 2020
- 1 min
Podcast [ACTS] Ep. 3 : Marriage, Money and Power
“We don’t really need the church, because we have each other!” – Ananias and Saphira, probably When the local church makes marriage the...
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- Jun 18, 2020
- 1 min
Podcast [ACTS] Ep. 2 : the Kin-dom of Christ and the House of Commons
In this episode, Nikayla interviews some of the members of a Christian intentional community that existed in Bowness for 9 years. Nikayla...
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- Jun 18, 2020
- 1 min
Podcast [ACTS] Ep. 1 : The Elisha to my Elijah on the Day of Pentecost
In this episode we look at Ascension and Pentecost and how it alludes back to Elijah and Elisha. Nikayla shares about the wildly...
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- Jun 18, 2020
- 1 min
Podcast Ep. 7 : The Apocalypse of Jesus and the Everlasting Garden
Apocalypse means ‘uncovering’ or ‘unveiling’. In this episode Logan and Nikayla talk about what is ‘uncovered’ in the book of Revelation....
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- Jun 18, 2020
- 1 min
Podcast Ep. 6 : Creator Becomes Creation
Let’s be unraveled by our belief in the Incarnation. It’s hard to deconstruct the “flesh versus spirit” dualism we often conform to here...
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- Jun 18, 2020
- 1 min
Podcast Ep. 5 : The Nonviolent Authority of Jesus
Eric and Nikayla talk about Jesus and what Jesus’ authority over nature means for us today. Jesus calms the storm, walks on water, and...
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- Jun 18, 2020
- 1 min
Podcast Ep. 4 : Unless a Kernel of Wheat Falls to the Ground and Dies…
Rod Olson is an urban farmer,a lamenting truth-teller, and a man who can hear the soil teach about Jesus. This was a wildly inspiring...
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- Jun 18, 2020
- 1 min
Podcast Ep. 3 : Planting Seeds in the Wild Unknown
This episode is a look at the ways we tend to vilify the future and mythologize the past in times of crisis. We look at the story of the...
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- Jun 18, 2020
- 1 min
Podcast Ep. 2 : The Grand Ecology
Eric and Nikayla wrestle with the creation stories in Genesis 1-3. We talk about science and faith, gender hierarchy, the devil, and...
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- Jun 18, 2020
- 1 min
Podcast Ep. 1 : Gardener in the Graveyard
This is the first episode in a six week series about the Garden. Since it is the first week of Easter this is an overview of the Garden...
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- May 13, 2020
- 3 min
The Lord’s Prayer
Guest post by Awaken-ian Dave King I shared reflections on the Lord’s Prayer at Awaken‘s (virtual) service today. There have been many...
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- Apr 9, 2020
- 8 min
Forgiving God during Holy Week April 2020
HOLY WEEK APRIL 2020 Do you ever wonder why Jesus, after healing so many people, says, “you’re forgiven!”? And then, have you ever...
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- Mar 30, 2020
- 11 min
Decolonizing Lent
In the second century, Church Bishop Marcion of Sinope concluded that the Creator God of the Old Testament and the loving, merciful God...
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- Mar 12, 2020
- 5 min
Lent Week 2 : Father & Son (an EXILE story)
Consider this: GOD the FATHER. The King. The Divine Masculine. What comes to mind? In our social imagination, the Father God is at once a...
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