Zao MKE Church

Talking with God

Whether you know it as the "Lord's Prayer" or the "Our Father", this one way to pray has gotten a lot of attention because it came directly from the teachings of Jesus. What's behind this prayer, and what can it teach us today?

Change of Heart

Jesus calls us to love with all our hearts - but what if "heart" means something different in his context than ours?

Sacred Anger

Guest sermon by Cor Valentine-Christophe

The messaging we hear around anger is complicated and confusing. We are told it is bad, something we should push away. As a result, we live life not knowing how to express anger in healthy non aggressive ways.

 

What if the messaging around anger looked different? Maybe we could discover transformative, sacred ways of experiencing and expressing anger.

With All Your Heart

When discussing the law with religious experts, Jesus said that it is love for God, neighbor, and self that is the most important. But who is our neighbor, and how are we to love them if we have internalized hatred about ourselves?

Joy Comes in the Morning

The struggle is real. But so is the promise of joy and new life on the other side of suffering. How can we trust in the promise of what's to come in the next life, all while tapping into the joy that's accessible to us right here and now?

Love That Will Not Let Me Go

God's love sustains and supports us. How can we tap in when we are feeling depleted?

Who Died & Made White Jesus King?

Using the language of human power (king, master, lord, etc) has warped our understanding of God. We've recreated God and Jesus in the image of our own human rulers, despots, dictators, and villains. But if God isn't like earthly rulers, then what is the reign of God actually about?

The Magdalene

Spoiler: Mary Magdalene was cool AF.

 

But like many badass women in the Bible, she's been maligned, ignored, and literally erased by scribes. Come hear how the "Apostle to the Apostles" played a huge role in the gospels, and what she can teach us here and now.

Lies I Heard in Church: ”Church Has To Be Like This”

Whether you grew up evangelical, Catholic, or something else, your church might have given you the impression that there's only one true way to be faithful spiritual community. When those communities are also engaging in the harmful rhetoric we've talked about this series, it can be easy to feel trapped.

 

But there are many ways to do church. Join us for a conversation about what heathy church can look like, with good boundaries, equitable power dynamics, and the freedom to be who God made you to be.

 

Join us for our summer series, Lies I Heard in Church. We'll debunk some of the nonsense that you may have heard from the church or church people, and reclaim the truth that is actually good news for all.

Lies I Heard in Church: ”I’ve Got a Mansion in Heaven”

Much of the talk of heaven is nothing more than individualist fantasies of personal gain. So what actually is on the other side of this life, and why is is so much better than any of us can imagine?

 

Join us for our summer series, Lies I Heard in Church. We'll debunk some of the nonsense that you may have heard from the church or church people, and reclaim the truth that is actually good news for all.