Mosaic Lincoln
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Sanctuaries in Miniature: Mutual Submission to One Another
How do we read scripture contextually with words that speak about headship and submission? Do we idolize the Apostle Paul's words? Do we find ourselves turned off by these words? Having a contextual understanding is essential in understanding t...
Sanctuaries in Miniature: Salvation at Our Tables
We continue diving into a theology of home. Scripture emphasizes the happenings in homes far more than happenings in programmatic religious gatherings. In particular, there is a fascinating gospel narrative in which salvation shows up at a home...
Sanctuaries in Miniature: A Theology of Home
What would it mean to believe God is encountered not only in worship gatherings but in the way someone speaks to his/her spouse, parents bless their children, children honor their parents, people eat together, forgive one another, offer hospita...
Themes From the Table: A Savior in Our Exile
Exile can be both literal and metaphorical – a physical displacement from home and a deeper experience of living in a place, season, or circumstance where we feel unsettled, disconnected, or longing for something more permanent. JRR Tolkien wro...
Themes From the Table: When Love Doesn’t Seem to Work
"On the night he was betrayed..."Sometimes in life, love doesn't seem to 'work.' Jesus is no stranger to this reality. God risks humanity's refusal in every moment. And yet he continually moves towards us and loves us. What might this ask o...
Themes From the Table: Fullness In Our Scarcity
There is a scarcity mindset in our world telling us we don't have enough, we haven't done enough, and we don't measure up enough. Of, we need to hoard and monopolize whatever resources we can so they don't end up in the hands of someone else. T...
Themes From the Table: Expanding Our View of Family
As the fragility of the nuclear and biological family becomes exposed from the pressures of life, we are invited to expand our view of our brothers and sisters. God, in Christ, is growing a new human family with many arms available to one anoth...
Themes From the Table: A Taste of Joy
The table Jesus prepares for us is an ongoing invitation to allow the heaviness of our hearts to experience a taste of joy and relief. Although our hearts can often draw back from living within the hope of the story of God's promise of rescue a...
Themes From the Table: A Broken Savior for Broken Bodies
Being present with the brokeness (material and immaterial) in our own bodies and the bodies of others is a difficult thing. But we have a God who entered our broken humanity to be in solidarity with us. Will we honor his presence with us in thi...
Themes From the Table: Delighting in Communion
To be human is to long for relational communion, and the essence of Christian communion is delighting in others for who they are as God's image bearers, not for what they can offer us. In this teaching, we explore the beautiful communion of the...
Themes From the Table: Living Within Pain and Promise
In a world filled with trouble, we're reminded of the promise of hope that has been shown to us in the life, death and resurrection of Jesus and one day will fully be present among us. At the Lord's table we're reminded pain and promise are odd...
Awareness of How We Are Loved
•Opening Worship•19:04 Message: The more aware we are of being loved, the more able we are to love. Will we root ourselves in the love of God enveloping us at all times so we can keep soft, generative hearts even in the midst of our hear...
Easter Recalibration in Liminal Spaces
•Opening Worship •18:18 Rachel and Mosaic Kids •29:01 Message - The season of Easter is a time to recalibrate our lives toward the risen Christ as Lord. The epistle to the Hebrews was written to people living in a liminal space of having to thi...
Oh How I Love Jesus
•00:00- 21:21 Communal Worship •21:22 Message Are you tired? Run down? Disenchanted with life? Let these stories of Jesus refresh you. There is living water for your soul in this season available through the life, death, and resurrection of Jes...
Trusting Jesus in Life and in Death
•00:00 Opening Worship•10:40 Ministry Moment with Libby of Mosaic Kids•35:55 Message | In a world of war and nation-states seeking self-protection, riches, and dominance over others, we are reminded that to follow Jesus is to embr...
Go to Yourself in God's Story
•00:00 - 21:39 Communal Worship•21:40 - 32:57 Ybor/Bill moment•32:58 This week's teaching explores the free opportunity God has given each of us to go to our truest selves as we entrust ourselves to God's care for us in Jesus Chri...
The Foolishness of the Cross
In this teaching we discover the cross is our invitation into discovering experiences of inner scarcity are the portals into both receiving the tenderness and kindness of God and then offering self-emptying love toward neighbor. God is kinder t...
Delighting in Discovery
In Psalm 40 we hear of the psalmist delighting to do the will of God. Needless to say, there's always a lot of talk about the will of God for one's life. In this teaching we wrestle with the truth of God's will simply being our daily surrender ...
Life in the Light of All Mankind
In this teaching we explore the opening words of John's gospel. Life is found in the light of all mankind whose presence is among us. May the light of his life be a light we both receive and carry for one another. Scripture: John 1:1-14
Mosaic's Christmas Gathering
A celebration of Christmas carols, scripture readings, candle lightings and a reminder of the gentle invitation of our God extended to each of us.
Living In Time Pregnant with the Patience of God
As we continue in Peter’s second letter, he tells us of a world pregnant with the patience of God. God's love of his created world will lead him to rescue it, and those who choose to live presently in the love of God while growing in the righte...
Participation in the Divine Nature
We begin our exploration of Peter’s second letter, where he invites followers of Jesus to share in God’s divine nature. This participation comes through the precious faith granted to them by the righteousness of Jesus, and it culminates in mutu...
Impatient On Our Way: A God of Loyal Love
We're often impatient on our way to becoming something new. Yet we have a God of loyal love who never wanders from us even though we often wander from him. Our loyal love can be like the morning dew, here for a moment and then dissipating. The ...