Tripp Fuller

Listen to how Jim responds to being put on the spot with this one: Does God change? And it only gets better from there!

Jeremiah 18:1-11 The God who can change, and who can change our futures. Here i…

Divine hospitality is put on display in God’s great acts of salvation. And God wants God’s people to reflect that lavish hospitality to one another and to expect that God’s own desire is to continue …

This week we get a picture painted in four different shades of divine deliverance.

Luke 13:10-17 A loosing that confronts us with our desire to guard sacred space and time. And a story that reminds u…

God has hopes for creation that include a flourishing of justice for all. The summons and the warning both point toward God being on the side of those who need the world’s abundance to overflow to th…

Isaiah 1:1, 10-20 Worship in the courts versus justice in the community. Surprise: sacrifice doesn’t give the people the purification they’re after. Maybe our religiosity itself is the evil God despi…

Hosea 11:1-11 A story of a deeply conflicted God: a God who has to discipline, but a God who has treated Israel with tender lovingkindness in its history—that sounds a note of hope for the future. Go…

This week the lectionary hovers around the beauty—and necessity!—of God’s forgiveness. Mercy triumphs over judgment, and demands that we become a different kind of people as well.

Hosea 1:2-10 A favo…

Colossians 1:15-28 A hymn to the cosmic Christ. Perhaps the most important thing to get about the Christian story: you are the image of God. Who God is making us is not defined by our sin, failure, o…

Luke 10:25-37 The well-known parable of the Good Samaritan wants to challenge our assumptions about who is worthy of our love. The challenge for us might be owning up to the ways in which we have dec…

2 Kings 5:1-14 – Naaman the Syrian discovers that the power of God does not run in the channels carved by the political and military powers of the world. Servants and messengers upend his expectation…

2 Kings 2:1-2, 6-14 When Elisha takes the mantle from Elijah. This pattern runs deep in the biblical story, including with Jesus and his followers.

Psalm 77:1-2, 11-20 Another psalm to raise the ques…

1 Kings 19:1-4, (5-7), 8-15a A classic burnout passage: at the moment of greatest achievement, Elijah is ready for it to all be over. God meets it with compassionate provision. In fact, God seems to …

The question Jesus asks Simon, Do you see this woman?, becomes a probe for us as well: do we see ourselves, and do we see the people around us. Do we embrace whom God has embraced? Do we recognize ou…

This week we see a cluster of stories that show God making the impossible possible. Whether it’s life out of death or a transformation of a violent aggressor into a vessel of self-giving love, God ha…

What does God have to do in order to be recognized as God by the nations? What do we need to do to be the kind of people who can make God’s name known? Who do we need to be if we are going to receive…

“Tradition is at once a passing on and a betrayal.”

John 16:12-15 “Revelation is progressive.” Ok. But how do we know God’s revelation when we hear it? Looking for community and listening for the Jes…

The Spirit of God is a life-giver in the midst of chaos, one who works chaos in our lives so that we are forced to reckon with the fact that it’s God who is our life-giver. There is comfort and life …

In a world where people enact laws, run for office, vote, and protest as people of faith, how do we know when we are in the right? How do we know the Christian story when we see it? This week’s passa…

The story of God is repeatedly a story of coming down: God’s glory coming down to shine on people’s faces, God the Father and the Son coming down to dwell with God’s people, and heavenly Jerusalem co…

Morgan drops the money quote this week: “God’s song is big enough that there is a part for everyone.” This may have something to do with the big reveal from last week:What makes Christians distinct?…