Queer Insights on God & Faith - Rebecca Janvrin, Vince Brackett, Kyle Hanawalt

In honor of the weekend many would have been participating in Chicago’s Pride Parade if not for COVID-19, Rebecca Janvrin joins Vince & Kyle to discuss queer insights on God and faith. This kicks off our new series of discussion: God of the Oppressed. We’ll be immersing ourselves, one at a time, in various different marginalized perspectives on Jesus and faith and the Bible. Really, we can’t come to a proper theology and understanding of Jesus at all if we’re not trying to do that from marginalized perspectives, because Jesus was a marginalized person.

Acts, Psalms, Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, GenesisVincent BrackettJune 30, 2020God of the OppressedComment

Mercedes Commercials, Untrustworthy Messengers, & the Ethics of Jesus - Vince Brackett & Kyle Hanawalt

Vince & Kyle follow up on Sunday's discussion of Society Resets.

ActsVincent BrackettMay 6, 2020Comment

Help us care for families - Kyle Hanawalt

Kyle invites us to participate in some of the church’s plans for caring for families this fall.

ActsVincent BrackettAugust 20, 2019Comment

Volunteer Thank You - Vince Brackett

A vision or message is nothing without people to carry it. With help from various Brown Line Vineyard team leaders, Vince leads us in saying thank you to all our volunteers, and reflects on the way this church’s vision has been influenced by St. Paul’s message about Jesus in Acts 17: born out of respect for wider culture, not being against wider culture.

ActsVincent BrackettJune 4, 2019Comment

What if more people had rich interpersonal networks? - Vince Brackett

Vince kicks off our 40 Days of Faith Prayer Experiment for Lent 2018, getting us to dream big together about the impact our church can have on our wider community. What if we could help more people in Lincoln Square build rich interpersonal networks?

ActsVincent BrackettFebruary 19, 201840 Days of Faith 2018Comment

Activating a grateful memory - guest speaker Cheryll Hanawalt

Hard-wired into humans is an incredible tool to enhance our daily experience of life, to help us turn our relational circuits on when stress has turned them off, and to connect with God and other people. That tool is our memory!

Acts, Psalms, PhilippiansVincent BrackettMay 15, 2017Comment

Life's not fair, but God is - Kyle Hanawalt

As the story of St. Peter being freed from prison demonstrates, the invitation to trust in God is not an invitation to live in a fantasy world where life always works out. It's an invitation to experience hope, care, love, and justice in the midst of the hard reality we all know: that life is in fact pretty unfair.

ActsVincent BrackettApril 11, 201740 Days of Faith 2017Comment

Jesus Really Enjoys Cross-Cultural Interactions - Vince Brackett

Brown Line is lucky to have a number of inter-racial and inter-cultural couples making up our community. Their experiences can help us understand the story of Peter & Cornelius in the book of Acts and why Jesus loves setting up cross-cultural interactions.

ActsVincent BrackettApril 4, 201740 Days of Faith 2017Comment

Life is Full of Conversions & Learning - Nader Sahyouni

The story of the conversion of Saul of Tarsus (later, St. Paul) gives us pause to reflect on the many conversions and turning points that a full life includes... and also on what must come after conversion experiences in order to truly experience lifelong change.

Acts, Malachi, HaggaiVincent BrackettMarch 27, 201740 Days of Faith 2017Comment

Join God in Welcoming Everyone - Kyle Hanawalt

The encouraging stories of the earliest Jewish followers of Jesus beginning to connect with non-Jewish peoples in their region -- like Philip the Jew and a Eunuch from Northeast Africa -- feel like models for the kinds of interactions our church today experiences all the time.

ActsVincent BrackettMarch 21, 201740 Days of Faith 2017Comment