fall 2022
Dec. 4 - Dec. 18, 2023
In the classic Dickens tale, three ghosts visit the miserly Ebenezer Scrooge on Christmas Eve, and over the course of one night, forever change him into a generous man who truly knew how to keep Christmas in his heart. We may not be visited by Ghosts, but we celebrate a different visitor this Christmas season, Jesus Christ.
Join Damascus Road this Christmas season for our series, A Christmas Carol. Just as Scrooge examined himself through the many Christmases of his life, we will consider what the birth of Jesus Christ means for our own past, present, and yet to come.
OCT. 23 - Nov. 27, 2022
For all of the advertisements and media telling us that more is better, we seem to be feeling a sense of lack more often than not. We may know intellectually that our stuff can’t bring us real satisfaction, but we still find ourselves overfilling our homes and schedules trying to find something to fill the deficit we feel. We feel tired, distracted, like there’s never enough time or money for everything we want. On the other end of the story, far too many people around us go without basic necessities in a country of plenty. This disconnect hurts us all.
But Jesus calls us into something better in His kingdom. The way of Jesus calls us towards freedom, to abide in his goodness and love, to savor what really matters, towards true contentment and generosity. In this series on Jesus’s radical discipline of simplicity, we will go deeper on what He tells us will truly satisfy.
Sep. 18 - Oc. 16, 2022
We are at war. Not with a foreign government or domestic terrorists or a creepy new artificial intelligence hell-bent on taking over the world. No, it’s a war we feel deep inside our own chests: we are at war with lies.
The problem isn’t so much that we tell lies but that we live them. All around us in the culture and deep within our own body memories are lies: deceptive ideas that wreak havoc on our emotional health and spiritual well-being, and deceptive ideas about who God is, who we are, and what the good life truly is. And this battle isn’t primarily against other people or institutions, it’s with ideas and the devil. As a generation, we chuckle at the devil as a premodern myth, but Jesus took the devil and his lies with deadly seriousness, and we need to as well. The choice is not whether to fight or not fight, but whether we win or surrender. Join us for this critical series unpacking lies and truth as well as spiritual reality.
Aug. 21 - sep. 11, 2022
You are invited to a Dinner Party! In this series we will be addressing everything that goes into a great party like hospitality, open dialogue, delicious food, and a servant hearted clean up crew. To learn how to be the greatest hosts possible we will dive deep into 4 lessons from Jesus in the gospels about how the kingdom of God is a great feast.