Zao MKE Church

We're All In This Together

Guest sermon by Chris Chapman

Phillip's Yes, God's And

The Call to the Kingdom

Sent In All Directions

Easter Sunday

Protest Sunday

On Palm/Protest Sunday, how do we join Jesus in gathering people power to stand up against the violence of empire?

Lent: Where You Go I'll Go

Lent: From Disassociation to Embodiment

Lent: From Distraction To Intention

When we allow our attention to be scattered and commodified, we find ourselves investing our time, energy, and even worship on things we didn't choose. How do we lay down the idols we've created as a…

Lent: There Your Heart Lies Also

In a world where numbing out sometimes feels like the only way of getting by, what does it mean to be fully alive? Spend the next 40 days of Lent with the Zao community fasting from distraction,…

Basics: From Death To New Life

We can't understand the teachings of Jesus without the cross and resurrection. Beyond individual salvation, what does that move from confrontation of empire, to death at the hands of the state, to…

Basics: Because We Have Each Other

Jesus knew about scarcity - he was teaching in a desert, after all. But trust, surrender, and abundance were central to his teachings. How can we be open handed with what we've got, trusting that…

Basics: Turn the Other Cheek

One of Jesus's most famous sayings, "turn the other cheek," seems to have gotten lost in the modern "christian" nationalist agenda of vengeance and retribution. What did Jesus actually mean by that,…

Basics: Pray in This Way

The Lord’s Prayer/Our Father is central to many Christian traditions and practices, but what does it really mean?

Basics: Love God and Neighbor

We’re kicking off a series focusing on the core tenets of Jesus’s teachings. Amid the rise of Christian nationalism and Christofascism, it’s more crucial than ever that we have clarity on what it…

Power that Gives Hope

Sometimes it’s hard to remember what the Christmas season is about and why it’s supposed to be so meaningful to us as Christians. But we can also see how the life and ministry of Jesus provides hope…

The Room Where It Happens

A Christmas Eve message from Pastor Jonah.

A Subversive Geneology of Incarnation: Zerubbabel

This Advent, we’ll be deep-diving on some of the more unexpected or obscure ancestors in Jesus’s gospel genealogies, linking them with the four themes of Advent: Hope, Peace, Joy, and Love. Today is…

A Subversive Genealogy of Incarnation: Judah

This Advent, we’ll be deep-diving on some of the more unexpected or obscure ancestors in Jesus’s gospel genealogies, linking them with the four themes of Advent: Hope, Peace, Joy, and Love. Today is…

A Subversive Genealogy of Incarnation: Tamar

This Advent, we’ll be deep-diving on some of the more unexpected or obscure ancestors in Jesus’s gospel genealogies, linking them with the four themes of Advent: Hope, Peace, Joy, and Love. Today is…