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At the Wedding in Cana, Lance shows how Mary asked Jesus for help, and that the ask mattered.

Throughout the gospels, ordinary gifts were brought to Jesus by ordinary people, and something miraculous happened as a result.

John 2:1-11


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Kathrin Meier joins Lance on NIA Sunday to talk about the ministry Neighbors In Action is doing in Port Houston, the way that the people of Port Houston have made that ministry their own, and how we tend to dehumanize people on the other side of the tracks - in both directions.

“We cannot have a relationship with Christ, the head of the body, if we do not have a relationship with the body himself.”

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Amanda looks at a passage from Romans to consider how we are perhaps not yet living in the fullness of Christ.

She remembers a girl hassling her young daughter that made her go into Mama Bear mode - but the story ended up being something other than what she expected.

How do we live with hope among all the groaning?

It’s not just us. It is all of creation groaning under the weight of this brokenness.

Romans 8:18-28


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In today’s message, Lance talks about the woman who touched the hem of Jesus’ garment so that she could be healed. But even though her physical ailment was cured, Jesus knew that there was more that needed healing.

The woman was suffering from a “poverty of being.” And that was something that needed more than a physical change in order to cure.

Mark 5:25-34


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This month’s series comes from a book called When Helping Hurts: How to Alleviate Poverty without Hurting the Poor… and Yourself. It’s a book about changing our whole mentality on missions, as we recognize the hurt we can do when we try to help in the wrong ways.

We need to develop a new paradigm for missions - recognize that when we go into communities, we do not bring God with us. God is already there.

Ephesians 3:14-21


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Acts 17 is one of Lance’s favorite chapters in Acts, and that’s because there’s a lot going on beneath the text. Paul’s heart is grieved for the world around him. 

What is breaking your heart in the world around us?

The world is open to the Word of God, but who is going to teach them the resurrection if not us?

Acts 17:16-34


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