Pastor Sean Palmer offers a needed reminder in this season of trial and confusion as we continue to face the fragility of the structures we have built as a people. We are reminded that in this life, we are granted only a foretaste of what we believe awaits; a taste which sustains us through any hardship and heartache. We pray that it is an encouraging word as we walk this road together.

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As the world continues to grapple with the vast effects of this pandemic, we are all learning to gather and care for one another in new ways. Pastor Chris invites us to consider our identity as God’s beloved children ; trusting that we will be provided for, and the ways in which we will be a part of that provision for others.

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Responding to the challenging and rapidly developing circumstances surrounding the spread of COVID-19, members of our family across the globe gathered largely in our living rooms as we came to worship and commune together in a new way. Pastor Chris invites us to consider how the church is uniquely called to step into this season: in the care of our neighbors, and those most vulnerable in our city and beyond.

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Pastor Chris continued our series in the Gospel of John, exploring the story of Jesus’ encounter with a woman facing judgment and his challenge to the gathered crowd. We’re reminded of God’s compassionate presence lifting us from shame, and the crucial truth that righteousness is not to be wielded as a weapon.

It was wonderful to welcome back Ines Franklin; offering a deep and encouraging reminder of the Holy Spirit not as a distant abstraction, but as a relationship as tangible in essence as the flesh-and-blood person of Jesus Christ. We are grateful for the simple truth, often forgotten, that the Spirit of God knows the way. May God help us to trust in that truth, even when it feels we are driving in the dark.

Pastor Chris Seay shares an update on our ongoing partnership with local churches caring for the countless many still displaced along the Venezuelan border. As we look ahead to the season of Lent; forty days of prayer and temptation following Jesus in the desert, we ask how we are called to enter into and be transformed by rhythms of fasting. Our hope is for you to join us in pulling away from our excesses, living simply, and gathering our resources to continue making a place at the table for all.

Pastor Sean Palmer continues our series on signs in the Gospel of John with a vital word for our family; telling the story of the blind beggar healed by Jesus, and his questioning by the Pharisees which followed. All too often, our own assumption of “sight” has left us blind to the greater movement of God that may well be staring us in the face.

Ericka Graham invites us to continue in our journey through the Gospel of John. We are shown, time and again, the signs of God’s redeeming love accepting us as sinners while calling us toward the “sainthood” of living fully into that love.  

Pastors Chris Seay and Wayne Brown continue our series on signs in the Book of John by leading us through the story of the healing at Bethesda. Jesus has great compassion for us as we navigate the pain in our lives. We learn that feeling pain is what gives us the ability to walk, and our willingness to share our pain with others allows us to walk in hope with others.

Gideon uses Isaiah 42 to invite us to see the presence of God as we walk through Order, Disorder, and Reorder in the journey of our lives. The Order are the containers and structure in which our beauty is called to flourish; Disorder is the pain and darkness through which we necessarily walk in this broken world; and Reorder is the invitation to resurrection, healing, salvation, and transformation.

Pastor Sean shares the sign of the fish and loaves from the Gospel of John. He challenges us to be aware of the signs we are being shown instead of waiting for the signs we expect.

Pastor Sean invites us to hear Jesus’ encounter with the Samaritan woman at the well with new ears. This is an invitation to examine our stories of shame and allow Jesus’ kind presence to bring hope and healing into places of isolation and despair.

Pastor Chris leads us into the new year with Jesus‘ first miracle in the Gospel of John. Through the lens of this story, Chris takes a look at the problem of codependency and invites us into a better, more healthy way of viewing ourselves and others. 

Our brother Gideon Tsang guide us into the practice of contemplation, a practice that invites us to notice your life deeply.

Gideon serves as a member of the pastoral team of Vox Veniae in Austin.

In this season of expectation, Pastor Sean reminds us that a baby changes everything and calls us to worship fully. Jesus’ birth changes and challenges the kingdoms of our life and calls us into transformation. Also, Campus Pastor, Ramon Huertas gives an update on two important projects in the life of our church. We are joined by musical guests the African’s Children Choir, our friends and water partners in Uganda. To support water projects with the African’s Children Choir visit ecclesiahouston.org/advent.

Pastor Chris Seay takes us through the years of our work with clean water and the impact we’ve been able to make with your generosity. We also hear from our brother Marcelo Robles, a pastor in Argentina, about our latest water project. After the video, Mike Mantel, CEO of Living Water International, explains more about how the gift of clean water transcends and blesses generations of people.

Pastor Sean Palmer considers Jesus’ genealogy, and our call (especially during this Advent season) to familiarize ourselves with the whole of our savior’s story. This is a lineage which invariably ushers us into the uncomfortable and unforeseen.