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Allison and Sara: Studio Sessions

Check out the first episode of Studio Sessions with Sara and Allison! Studio Sessions airs every Thursday at 8pm on Instagram Live via @studio.wesley's account. Come join in the discussion!

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Pastor Jess Williams: The Bible In Twelve Words - Creation

Pastor Jess Williams, Executive Director/Pastor of United Wesley in Miami, Florida, shares his thoughts on the the word "creation" in the context of Genesis 1 and 2, and how that story is still relevant to us today. Pastor Jess unpacks some of the differences between Genesis 1 and 2, and invites us to consider "Who is God and who are we?" in light of the love of God that is illuminated in the Text.

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Sara Taylor: Across The Distance - Repairing Creation

Sara Taylor, Assistant Director of Communication and Studio Wesley at Campus to City Wesley Foundation in Jacksonville, FL, shares her thoughts on Colossians 1:15-20 in the context of repairing the distance we have created between ourselves and creation, specifically our care for it. Sara invites us to consider that just as we are called to care for and love one another, we are called to care for and love the earth and by caring for the earth, we are actually caring for our neighbor.

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Derrick Scott III: Across the Distance - repairing Identity

Derrick Scott III, Executive Director of Campus to City Wesley Foundation in Jacksonville, FL, shares his thoughts on 2 Corinthians 5:16-20 in the context of repairing our identities. Derrick invites us to be disturbed by the internal distance created when we identify more with our false self and our mistakes rather than our original goodness and belovedness as a child of God.

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Brooke Lawrence: Beloved - Blessed and Broken

Brooke Lawrence, Assistant Director of Community for Campus to City Wesley Foundation in Jacksonville, Florida, draws on scripture from Mark 1:29-39 and insights from Henri Nouwen's Book "Life of the Beloved" to unpack our brokenness and our blessedness. Brooke invites us to consider how not acknowledging our pain and brokenness results in more harm being done to ourselves and others. She then shares how she believes placing our brokenness under a recognition of our blessedness allows us to combat anxiety and see how God might use us more clearly.

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Rev. Preston Davis: No Turning Back - The Four Commitments: Calling

Rev. Preston Davis, Minister to the University at High Point University in High Point, North Carolina, shares his thoughts on calling in the context of John 15:12-17. Rev. Davis talks about the problem of having a calling rooted in a performance-based identity as opposed to a calling that is a way and how of being. Rev. Davis invites us all to consider how we can do things with great love in the world, rather than just achieve great things in the world, as well as how God might invite us to follow them in the midst of great joy and great fear.

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