2013-08-07T00:44:47-06:00

you confront me and want me to see that i am privileged   i agree with you and begin to work on myself but if ever i disagree with you again about anything else   you assault me you shit on me you silence me you hate me you kill me you dehumanize me and much much more as you call me privileged   these are crimes of hate of the highest order and each time they make me wonder... Read more

2013-08-05T13:26:31-06:00

The great question of this hour is ‘What does belief look like?’   We find Jesus this morning in John chapter 5 in the aftermath of a healing.  The religious leaders are pissed that Jesus would have the audacity to heal on the Sabbath.  The audacity of the healing was that Jesus left the boundaries of what one was supposed to believe and the rules that one was supposed to follow.   Jesus’ leaving such boundaries allowed the lame to... Read more

2013-07-28T16:55:25-06:00

  There was a pool in Jesus’ day where folks who were blind, lame, paralyzed, and had other disabilities laid.  The folks lay at this pool because every once in a while an angel of God would come down and stir up the water.  The first one into the pool would be healed of their disability.  This is a story of magic.   Most folks walked quickly by this pool.  They didn’t want to be bothered with the desperate needs... Read more

2013-07-26T00:33:55-06:00

thoughts in a break of time   is this what you call love? you hit me you hug me   you curse me you praise me   you fight me you embrace me   you hate me you love me   who are you i don’t know someone who claims to love me so   who are you i shouldn’t care the way you act is not fair   who are you i am gone i shouldn’t have called you... Read more

2013-07-24T00:15:15-06:00

are you fake i don’t know   is our fate truly hate or is it love a construct you seem to never dream of   are you fake i don’t know   is our goal to heal or to kill think about it to heal you must learn how to feel   are you fake i don’t know   with your words the oppressor you hit while you treat everyone else like shit   are you fake i don’t know... Read more

2013-07-21T10:35:50-06:00

    This morning we arrive back in the aftermath of a restoration of love.  The woman at the well was granted sight of herself and the world around her.  Jesus loved past the society of the time’s barriers of race and class to actually see and restore a human being.   The events of the morning were so odd that the disciples were struggling to believe that Jesus was a real person.  So often when we love in ways... Read more

2013-07-21T09:18:31-06:00

  It is an honor for my family and I to be with you today to honor my father, the one you have known in recent years as Chief and Emergency Management Director Jeff Hood.  For many years, we have served alongside my dad.  In the early years, it was pretty cool to get to go the fire station, climb up on the trucks, and see the lights and sirens run.  However as I got older, I can remember becoming... Read more

2013-07-16T11:41:51-06:00

amen   you are a word which speaks so much by actually saying so little i ponder your mystery   the way you ring loudly from the throat the way you slide softly from the lips the way you whip violently around the tongue the  way   the truth when you say stop the truth when you say thanks the truth when you say love the truth   the light you share in silence the light you share in confusion... Read more

2013-07-14T23:27:21-06:00

  This morning we gather to meet each other in hopes that by meeting we might find community and in community we might find love and in love we might find answers somewhere in the dark mysteries of the universe.   We encounter Jesus meeting a Samaritan woman at the well.  The Samaritan woman was of a marginalized identity.  The disciples did not want to go to Samaria yet Jesus went and sought to transcend the boundaries of identity.  In... Read more

2013-07-14T23:08:34-06:00

Pleasant evening, I am Jeff Hood, The Pastor of the Church at Mable Peabody’s.  I am a pastor and in times of difficulty pastors pray.  So I come to offer you a prayer.   God, I come to you at this difficult hour to beseech you for justice.   Tonight, my heart is heavy for Tracy Martin and Sybrina Fulton.  I pray that they might know the restoration of their lives in this life.  May they feel the love that... Read more

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