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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When Jesus makes the guest list, you never know who’s gonna be invited – and who’s gonna actually show up. How does his reckless inclusiveness inform our own inclusion and inclusive practices? And how much does it cost to throw a party like this?

How Money Shapes Identity. These parables about money, dis/honesty, generosity, wealth, and poverty, taken together with the audience of VRPs who are “lovers of money,” are typical of Luke’s Jesus, who thinks he can tell a lot about a person by how they deal with $$. Luke 16:1-31; Psalm 113

This Religion Is Very Big. These two stories, back to back, are a study in contrast – Jesus healing with compassion, Jesus ranting about the end-of-days – can they both be the same guy? Can we appreciate “both” Jesuses? Is our mental-emotional-spiritual capacity big enough to hold it all? Luke 17:11-37; Psalm 111.

Praying With Empty Hands. Like the widow who needs justice... Like the tax collector who pleads mercy... Like a child with nothing to offer. That’s how we pray. Luke 18:1-17; Psalm 84:1-8.

Sometimes *Your* Table Is Jesus’s Table. There are cases where Jesus doesn’t really wait for you to come to him; he comes to you. Luke 19:1-10; Psalm 32:1-7. 

Waiting For God(ot). Another parable: what to do while we wait for God to make all things right? What if it seems like God’s been gone for a f***ing long time? What is the “safe” move – conserving, liberating? And what might that look like in our church’s life together? Luke 19:11-27; Psalm 98

The Truth About “Rendering.” There is more than one kingdom claiming our allegiance. To what/whom are we pledged? How do we determine ownership, adjudicate the claims on us? This harkens to God’s initial creative work in Genesis 1 – “separating” light from dark, water from water, water from land... parsing it out. Now it’s ours to do. Luke 20:20-26; Psalm 24. 

Look for the Widows. God has a peculiar preference for widows; Jesus is especially sympathetic to them. Who are they? How are they like us, not like us?  Luke 20:45-47, 21:1-4; Psalm 68:1-6.

The Promise of Help When All Seems Lost. Jesus knows that suffering is real – it hurts as much as it hurts – and he’s not interested in sugarcoating that. But he is interested in assuring us that God sees it, and provides for us throughout. Indeed, even when we lose our own families, Jesus promises that we get more family than we know what to do with, among his people. Luke 21:5-19; Psalm 46. 

Shannon Moore is preaching.