Chunk of Change
Fall Series
GENEROSITY: PREPLANNED
November 19, 2017 • Sara Wolbrecht
If becoming a generous person is really the answer to so much of our worry, what practical plan will get us there? It will take a little thinking (head) and a lot of passion (heart). Sunday we'll dive into this work as we conclude our fall Chunk of Change series, and our November journey through Generosity. You won't want to miss it - especially as we hear about our current financial picture at Salt House, together.
GENEROSITY: MONEY LIBERATION
November 12, 2017 • Sara Wolbrecht
Everybody worries about money. Rich, poor, somewhere in-between. Everyone has held their breath when they look at an unknown future and wondered: "What could I lose? Will I have enough?" The Jesus-story offers an antidote to this - and it isn't what you might think. Join us Sunday in our month on GENEROSITY as we explore a shift in mindset - that just might completely free us from our financial worry.
GENEROSITY: ON PURPOSE
November 5, 2017 • Sara Wolbrecht
Thanksgiving is two-and-a-half weeks away! And Christmas? Only seven weeks away, people! As we continue our Chunk of Change series, while perched on the verge of the holiday season, it is timely for us to kick into a month on GENEROSITY. To live into the kind of change God hopes for us as Jesus followers, we are called to be liberated into living out lives of incredible generosity - let's grow there, together.
REFORMATION: THEOLOGY OF THE CROSS
October 29, 2017 • Sara Wolbrecht
At Salt House we believe in radical inclusivity - any and all people are welcome, especially because of the diversity they bring to our community. We believe this stance to be congruent with the revolutionary love of Jesus, as well as the reforming work of Martin Luther - a Roman Catholic friar who, 500 years ago next week, on October 31, 1517, began a revolution that forever changed the trajectory of the western church. This Sunday, we'll acknowledge this historical moment and explore what it means that Salt House is in fact a Lutheran (Evangelical Luthern Church in America) church - and why that matters for us as people who are changed to bring change in our world today, together.
LECTIO DIVINA ON MARK 1:4-11
October 22, 2017 • Sara Wolbrecht
At the core of following Jesus is the practice of listening for God, noticing the movement of God in our day, our words, our relationships, in the books we read, the pulse of the news, the needs and suffering we see. And one of the great practices for listening we can cultivate is listening for God in scripture. This ancient book that still lives and breathes fresh insight today. Join us Sunday in our Chunk of Change series as we listen for how God invites us into being changed - through listening to the Bible through Lectio Divina, together
COMPASSION: THE COURAGE TO ACT
October 15, 2017 • Sara Wolbrecht
Our October journey through COMPASSION has led us through the courage to see, the courage to feel - and now this Sunday we explore the hang-ups, complexities, and surprising gifts of choosing the courage to act with compassion. Let's walk the path, together.
COMPASSION: THE COURAGE TO FEEL
October 8, 2017 • Sara Wolbrecht
Given the suffering we’ve seen this week, we’re grateful to be on a journey of COMPASSION for the month of October. Compassion means “being with suffering” – this Sunday we move from how to see with compassion, to feel with compassion. We’re grateful that, given the suffering we see around us, the Jesus-story invites us into a life of change – including deepening our capacity for compassion. Vital, vulnerable work that we need for the sake of ourselves, and the sake of our hurting world. Thankfully we do it, together.
COMPASSION: THE COURAGE TO SEE
October 1, 2017 • Sara Wolbrecht
Jesus invites us into change. And perhaps no change is more connected to the life of Jesus than deepening our capacity for compassion. This Sunday we kick off a three-week journey exploring how we grow and deepen in COMPASSION. Through racial injustice, aftermath of natural disasters, rising rates of homelessness on the Eastside - how do we see, feel and act with compassion?
CHANGED THROUGH SCRIPTURE | LECTIO DIVINA
September 24, 2017 • Sara Wolbrecht
In our new fall series "Chunk of Change" we hear Jesus' invitation to see change not only as something that happens externally around us - like changes in our jobs, relationships, health, country, home - but to see part of the point of it all as the constant change in us. Mind, heart, soul change, at that. This Sunday, we explore how we are changed in how we hear God in reading Scripture; we'll engage the ancient practice of Lectio Divina, together.
Chunk of Change Trailer
September 16, 2017 • Sara Wolbrecht
One thing that we know to be true: change is the only constant. We will all keep living through change, but will be changed? At Salt House, that is our hope. So whatever chunk of change you're living through, let's cross over that threshold together.