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Wednesday, March 25, 2026
Second Reading
In Remember the Titans, Coach Boone forces his racially divided football team to room together, eat together, learn each other's stories. Gary and Julius—white captain and Black leader—start as enemies and become brothers.
In Rush, James Hunt and Niki Lauda are rivals who despise each other—and make each other better. Hunt's recklessness pushes Lauda's precision; Lauda's discipline challenges Hunt's chaos. Neither would be champion without the other. As iron sharpens iron, so one person sharpens another.
In 127 Hours, Aron Ralston is trapped alone in a canyon, arm pinned by a boulder. For five days he faces death in isolation. The film flashes to memories of community he took for granted—family, friends, a woman he loved carelessly.
Imagine a quiet evening in a modest home on the outskirts of Nazareth, where the air is thick with the sweet aroma of baked bread and the soft glow of oil lamps flickers gently on the walls. In one of...
In the film *Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind*, we meet Joel and Clementine, two lovers who, driven by heartbreak, decide to undergo a radical procedure to erase memories of each other. Imagine for a moment, the sterile white walls...
Picture Chuck Noland, stranded on a desolate island, his world reduced to the sound of crashing waves and the rustling of palm fronds. In the midst of the vast emptiness, he discovers an unlikely companion: a volleyball named Wilson. With...
For eleven years, Maria Gonzalez drove to the DaVita Kidney Care clinic in San Antonio three times a week. Every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, she...
On March 7, 1965, six hundred marchers set out from Brown Chapel AME Church in Selma, Alabama, demanding voting rights. They made it only to...
Every month for eleven years, Maria Gonzalez of San Antonio mailed a $50 check to the hospital where her daughter was born — chipping away...
On January 30, 1956, a stick of dynamite exploded on the front porch of Martin Luther King Jr.'s parsonage in Montgomery, Alabama. His wife Coretta...
For eleven years, Maria Gonzalez made minimum payments on her student loans — $287 each month, mailed like clockwork from her apartment in Des Moines....
For years, Dr. Paul Farmer watched from hospital balconies in Boston as medical students discussed tropical diseases in the abstract — malaria, tuberculosis, cholera —...
For over two thousand years, physicians prescribed bloodletting as the remedy for nearly every ailment. Hippocrates endorsed it in ancient Greece. Galen systematized it in...
For centuries, smallpox terrorized the world. In eighteenth-century England, doctors practiced variolation — deliberately infecting patients with a mild strain of the disease, hoping to...
For over two hundred years, the Royal Navy watched its sailors die of scurvy. Captains tried everything — sulfuric acid elixirs, vinegar rinses, seawater purges,...
Johann von Staupitz dreaded seeing the young monk approach. Martin Luther would kneel in the confessional at Erfurt's Augustinian monastery and stay for six hours,...
Teaching on Community and Fellowship from Luke: Acts 2: The Pattern of Early Community
Teaching on Community and Fellowship from Pachomius: Pachomius and the First Cenobitic Community
God who sees, for those sitting in isolation tonight— No one to call. No one who notices. No one who asks how they're doing. Be the friend they need. But also, mobilize Your people to be that friend.
God who calls us family, thank You for the gift of community— people to walk with, pray with, grow with. Forgive us for the ways we hurt each other, misunderstand each other, fail each other. Bind us together with cords...
Teaching on Worship from Tertullian: Tertullian on Christian Worship Practices
Teaching on Community and Fellowship from Benedict of Nursia: Benedict on Stability: Staying Put
Teaching on Sabbath and Rest from John Chrysostom: Chrysostom on Rest and Worship Together