Legend Community Church

Making Prayer Something We Value

Our lives run a gammut of responsibilities - how do we fit prayer in, or more importantly, come to see prayer as something powerful and valuable and worth fighting for the time for? 

God in the Chaos

Ancient Israel formed and molded it's creation story around the chaos they experienced in the destruction of Jerusalem and their exile.  What does what they believed - and what Genesis teaches - about God's role in creation have to do with the ordering of our lives today, and how do we move into the chaos that's so unsettling.  

A Determination that Calls for Love

The story of advent is a story that unmakes all other stories, and then gives us all an entirely new - and unexpected - story to tell.  How can we always be learning as we lean into new ideas and new things and new ways of experiencing reality.  

A Discovery that Calls for Faithfulness

Jack now is tasked with explaining Christmastown to Halloween town - but how can he?  Or how can he faithfully represent this new thing in a way that the folks in Halloweentown will understand?  Which leads us to the same questions for ourselves...

A Discovery that Calls for Joy

Jack experiences an uncontrollable joy in his discovery of Christmas town - as if everything he's ever waited for and wanted has come true in this new place.  That sort of Joy should be a part of our own journeys and experiences, especially during advent, as we anticipate the coming of Jesus.

A Disillusionment that Calls for Hope

A lot of us can connect to Jack Skellington's disillusionment in Halloweentown - he's king of everything, and he needs more.  Join us this advent, as we explore Tim Burton's "Nightmare Before Christmas" as an allegory for what happens when we have seen Christmastown, but have to go back and make sense of it in Halloweentown. 

Ecclesiastes - the Conclusion of the Matter

At the end of Ch. 12, a later author adds an epilogue to the book of Ecclesiastes.  Why?  What was it about the original text that bothered him, or that he felt was incomplete?  How does that thought help us process this book of ancient Wisdom? 

Faith in the Face of Meaningless-ness

When everythign else has fallen away, how do we push through? 

Youth and Meaninglessness

In Ecclessiastes 12, the Teacher concludes that even our bodies are going to fail us.  How do we stay rooted in a world that feels like it's always fading, always falling apart? 

The work we do and meaningless-ness

the Teacher in Ecclessiastes is as frustrated with his job as the rest of us are.  How do we make our work more meaningful?