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Join us in fully embracing the mission and spirit of our faith as we seek to obey Jesus' command to "Go and do likewise" and Start Becoming A Good Samaritan.

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Becoming a Good Samaritan

2010-02-14 John Ortberg

Ever noticed how good it feels to love someone else or show compassion to someone in need? That's because God is perfectly loving and radically compassionate. And God has set things up so that the compassionate life is also the blessed life. But we don't love in order to get the blessing. We love because He first loved us.

Caring for the Sick

2010-02-21 Lindsay James

Our face-paced lives are not poised for interruption, particularly when it comes to caring for those who are battling illness or disease. And yet our world faces overwhelming challenges when it comes to caring for the sick, whether it's AIDS or cancer, malaria or malnutrition. But Jesus' ministry was not being interrupted by the needs of the sick and dying - for him, these interruptions where his ministry.

Seeking Justice and Reconciliation

2010-02-28 Scott Scruggs

It's easy to recognize that our world is not as it should be. It's more difficult to know what to do about it. Here is an in-depth look at God's heart for justice and a practical discussion about the role of the church in seeking justice and reconciliation.

Honoring the Poor

2010-03-07 Todd Johnson

Scripture speaks in one voice that God's people are to care for the poor and needy as an essential part of our devotion to Jesus - and to do otherwise is a sign that we may not be following Jesus at all. But how do we do this? Where should we start? And isn't the problem too big for any one person or community to tackle? Join guest speaker Todd Johnson as he helps us re-think these questions and re-imagine our answers.

Caring for Creation

2010-03-14 Kyle Van Houtan and Scott Scruggs

Psalm 24 begins with the phrase, "The earth is the Lord's and everything in it." That's a pretty direct way of saying that the natural world does not belong to you or me -it belongs to God. And God made human beings in his image so that we would reflect his generosity, hospitality, and justice in how we care for creation. Scott Scruggs hosts ecologist and extinction expert Kyle Van Houtan in a dialogue about the biblical basis for environmental stewardship and the ecological concerns we can't afford to ignore.

Loving the Forsaken

2010-03-21 Chris Sturgeon

"Forsake" - to renounce or turn away from entirely. The disabled, orphaned and incarcerated certainly know what it means to be forsaken, but it is not limited to just them. Each one of us has the capacity to feel abandoned, alone and without worth. In the final week of the "Just Start" series we take a look at what it means for us to love the forsaken, as well as what it means to accept that love ourselves.

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