Galileo Church

We seek and shelter spiritual refugees, rally health for all who come, and fortify every tender soul with the strength to follow Jesus into a life of world-changing service.

5860 I-20 service road Fort Worth, TX 76119 USA

(682) 760-1274

OUR MISSIONAL PRIORITIES:

1. We do justice for LGBTQ+ humans, and support the people who love them.

2. We do kindness for people with mental illness and in emotional distress, and celebrate neurodiversity.

3. We do beauty for our God-Who-Is-Beautiful.

4. We do real relationship, no bullshit, ever.

5. We do whatever it takes to share this good news with the world God still loves.

Trying to find us IRL?
Mail here: P.O. Box 668, Kennedale, TX 76060
Worship here: 5 pm CT Sundays; 5860 I-20 service road, Fort Worth 76119

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monsters in the dark:praying the ugly psalms

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The Bible isn’t all sunshine and rainbows. Some of the Psalms can get pretty damn ugly. What do we do with that?

Please take a look at Psalm 58 before you get started. And to cleanse the palate (and the spirit), read Psalm 103 afterward to hear the counter-testimony to this particularly ugly Psalm.

Psalm 102 evokes the pain and terror of dying. Can God really understand the SUCK of death? What if it seems like God doesn't?

Youngster Czar Jess Schell, soon-to-be M.Div. Perkins (SMU), tackled the reality of loneliness and isolation, when your friends and neighbors and (maybe even) God have left you in the dust, or, as Jess says, "naked on the bathroom floor." Read Psalm 38, please. And have Psalm 23 on hand for the counter-testimony.

Psalm 88. Ugh. Depression, anxiety, every form of emotional suffering we could think of. It's for real, and it doesn't mean you're faithless or weak. Indeed, "God is near to the brokenhearted," and maybe your broken heart is exactly the heart that God is looking for.

For the last in our Lenten series (thanks be to God!) we sat with Psalm 73 and the reality that life isn't fair -- the wicked prosper, and I'm trying hard, and I'm still #notwinning. But maybe my self-absorbed feeling of #notwinning is a disposition God can work with. Imagine that.