This Sunday is Palm Sunday on the Christian calendar, which means Holy Week begins.  At GracePointe we will continue our latest series, “Meeting Jesus Again, for the First Time,” by exploring one of the central events of his story: Jesus’s death on the cross.  

What can we say about the reason for Jesus’s death historically? How can we understand it theologically in ways that don’t create a toxic portrait of God? 

We can’t wait to see you online or in person this Sunday as we explore these questions and more!

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This Sunday at GracePointe our latest series, “Meeting Jesus Again, for the First Time,” continues. Our focus remains on Jesus’s Kingdom of God movement and how he enacted that vision. That Jesus had the reputation of being a healer seems historically grounded. But what was the nature of those healings? Physical, literal? Or social, metaphorical? Can we  really know? 

Our focus this week will be on Jesus’s healings and exorcisms, and how they worked to further announce and display the kingdom of God through radically inclusive community. 

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This Sunday at GracePointe we continue our latest series, “Meeting Jesus Again, for the First Time,” by focusing on Jesus’s teaching. Primarily, Jesus taught through the use of parables, memorable sayings, and prophetic demonstrations. His teaching focused on the Kingdom of God, living as if it were already present, and resisting Roman domination through nonviolence. 

We’ll explore examples of all these ways Jesus taught when we see you online or in person Sunday!

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We are so excited to welcome Liz Dyer to GracePointe this Sunday! 

In 2014, Liz had a dream that she could start a private Facebook group for moms of LGBTQ kids and those moms would end up helping to make the world a kinder, safer, more loving place for all LGBTQ people to live. The “Mama Bears” are a network of groups, websites, special projects and resources dedicated to supporting, educating and empowering parents of LGBTQ+ kids and the LGBTQ+ Community. 

We are also honored to welcome Jennifer Knapp as our musical guest. Jennifer is a Grammy-nominated singer-songwriter, author, speaker, and advocate. 

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This Sunday at GracePointe we continue our latest series, “Meeting Jesus Again, for the First Time,” by zeroing in on the movement he called the “Kingdom of God.” For many people this was code for “going to heaven when we die,” but for Jesus it seems to have meant something very different, something more concrete and this-worldly. What does the Kingdom of God look like and how did Jesus share this vision? We’ll begin that conversation when we see you online or in person Sunday!

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This Sunday at GracePointe we continue our latest series, “Meeting Jesus Again, for the First Time,” by turning to how Jesus saw God. How we imagine God—what God is like, God’s character, etc.— will shape how we live our lives in the world. If God was the engine behind Jesus’s movement, how did Jesus understand God?

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This week Josh continues our new series, “Meeting Jesus Again for the First Time,” by asking the question, “Who was the historical Jesus?” What can be said about who he was, and how did that shape who he became for Christians?

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This Sunday Josh is starting a new series about Jesus. Over these weeks we will explore who Jesus was historically, and also who Jesus might be for us today.

This week we’ll begin with two questions:

1. How do we know anything about Jesus? What are the sources for our information?

2. Why does Jesus still matter for so many of us? What is it about him that keeps us coming back again and again?

We can’t wait to see you this Sunday online and in person as we begin, “Meeting Jesus Again For the First Time”!

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Our first series of 2023 begins this Sunday! In this series called “Epiphany: Learning to See Differently,” we will be hearing stories of doing just that—seeing differently. The goal of this series is that, by hearing the stories of others, we will become better attuned to our own epiphany moments that occur.

For 20 years Colby has been a pastor. The first decade within evangelical Christianity, and this last decade as a post-evangelical, progressive Christian. He’s the author of two books, UnClobber: Rethinking our Misuse of the Bible on Homosexuality, and The SHIFT, a survival guide for becoming a progressive Christian—for which he’s currently on a nationwide tour, sharing with communities about a vision for a kind of Christian practice but with a progressive flavor. He planted a progressive Christian church in San Diego in 2014 called Sojourn Grace Collective and enjoys golfing, running, and yoga.

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Our first series of 2023 begins this Sunday! In this series called “Epiphany: Learning to See Differently,” we will be hearing stories of doing just that—seeing differently. The goal of this series is that, by hearing the stories of others, we will become better attuned to our own epiphany moments that occur.

This week we welcome Dr. Paula Stone Williams to GracePointe. Paula is an author and internationally known speaker on gender equity, LGBTQ advocacy, and religious tolerance. She is also a pastor and pastoral counselor in Boulder County, Colorado. Paula has been featured in The New York Times, TEDWomen, TEDSummit, TEDxMileHigh, Red Table Talk, The Denver Post, New York Post, New Scientist Magazine, Radio New Zealand,and many other media outlets. Her book, “As a Woman: What I Learned about Power, Sex, and the Patriarchy after I Transitioned” was released in 2022.

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