Forest Hills Mennonite Church

What is the right verb tense for salvation? Do we speak of salvation in the past ("when were you saved?") or in the future, as something we have yet to experience? The Biblical story shows us how Jesus unfolds salvation both within time and across time.

Existence is a fundamentally relational phenomenon: everything that is exists in and through a complex web of relationships. Since God created a relational cosmos, then salvation must be relational, too.

Most people with even a passing awareness of Christianity know that it has something to do with "salvation": getting saved, being saved, accepting Jesus as savior. But do we have a shared sense of what we mean when we talk about salvation? This message launches us into a five week exploration of what salvation is and how we understand it.

So much of Jesus' teaching, particularly in the Gospel of Luke, focuses on finances and economics. Following Jesus has profound implications for how we make, spend, save, and share our money. Chad Martin, Executive Director of Chestnut Street Housing, invites us into Jesus' good news of a year of jubilee. 

If God truly raised Jesus from the dead, then we have the chance to rethink everything we've assumed to be true about the world. 

In Luke's Gospel, Jesus' disciples herald his arrival into Jerusalem by acclaiming him as "king." What does it mean to affirm that Jesus' life, teachings, death, burial, and resurrection all contribute to his enthronement as King?

Is "revolutionary" an appropriate category for understanding the life and actions of Jesus? While some modern scholars think so, the true revolution Jesus brought about wasn't with swords and spears but within hearts and minds. 

Hannah Arendt once claimed that, "The discoverer of the role of forgiveness in the realm of human affairs was Jesus of Nazareth." Learning to forgive like Jesus is a core part of Christian faith and practice.