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Tuesday Nov 19, 2019
Tuesday Nov 19, 2019
Scripture Reading: Luke 8: 26-39
One of the great mistakes Christians have made over the centuries is to have assumed that Jesus of Nazareth was principally concerned with matters of right belief or doctrine. For two thousand years, the Church has been preoccupied with the metaphysical and supernatural, to the neglect of the physical and natural. While Jesus was a rabbi who cared deeply about the mind and soul of a person, he was also a healer who cared at least as much about the body of a person. For Jesus, body, mind, and spirit could not be separated. He came to restore the whole person to oneself, to community, and to God.
In this sermon series, we’ll meet the Jesus whom tradition has come to call “The Great Physician.” The “abundant life” Jesus calls us to is a wholeness of life in which our mind, heart, spirit, and body are most fully integrated and alive. To experience abundant life is not to believe the right things, or to have certainty, or to prepare ourselves for the next life; instead, it’s to be well in this life, by the grace we find in Christ and in community.
Tuesday Nov 05, 2019
Tuesday Nov 05, 2019
A popular poster hanging from many office walls portrays massive, threatening storm clouds covering the earthen landscape below. All life on the ground has sought a place of safety and shelter. But above the dark, ominous clouds an eagle soars with outstretched wings. The caption reads: “When storms arise, sparrows head for cover, while eagles soar higher.”
When the hardships of life press in all around us and we begin to grow weary, or when a storm or crisis overturns our world and threatens to overwhelm us, we are often inclined to run for shelter, take cover, and wait it out—hoping simply to get through it in one piece. But the eagle knows that in the storm lies both danger and opportunity. By locking its wings in a fixed position, it can use the wind of the storm to fly higher in a matter of seconds, thereby avoiding the perils below and gaining a whole new perspective.
In this four-part “Soar” series, we hear from the prophet Isaiah, who reminds us that, in the face of every storm, God gives us the strength and courage to soar like eagles, rather than hide like sparrows.
Tuesday Nov 05, 2019
Tuesday Nov 05, 2019
A popular poster hanging from many office walls portrays massive, threatening storm clouds covering the earthen landscape below. All life on the ground has sought a place of safety and shelter. But above the dark, ominous clouds an eagle soars with outstretched wings. The caption reads: “When storms arise, sparrows head for cover, while eagles soar higher.”
When the hardships of life press in all around us and we begin to grow weary, or when a storm or crisis overturns our world and threatens to overwhelm us, we are often inclined to run for shelter, take cover, and wait it out—hoping simply to get through it in one piece. But the eagle knows that in the storm lies both danger and opportunity. By locking its wings in a fixed position, it can use the wind of the storm to fly higher in a matter of seconds, thereby avoiding the perils below and gaining a whole new perspective.
In this four-part “Soar” series, we hear from the prophet Isaiah, who reminds us that, in the face of every storm, God gives us the strength and courage to soar like eagles, rather than hide like sparrows.
Tuesday Oct 15, 2019
Tuesday Oct 15, 2019
A popular poster hanging from many office walls portrays massive, threatening storm clouds covering the earthen landscape below. All life on the ground has sought a place of safety and shelter. But above the dark, ominous clouds an eagle soars with outstretched wings. The caption reads: “When storms arise, sparrows head for cover, while eagles soar higher.”
When the hardships of life press in all around us and we begin to grow weary, or when a storm or crisis overturns our world and threatens to overwhelm us, we are often inclined to run for shelter, take cover, and wait it out—hoping simply to get through it in one piece. But the eagle knows that in the storm lies both danger and opportunity. By locking its wings in a fixed position, it can use the wind of the storm to fly higher in a matter of seconds, thereby avoiding the perils below and gaining a whole new perspective.
In this four-part “Soar” series, we hear from the prophet Isaiah, who reminds us that, in the face of every storm, God gives us the strength and courage to soar like eagles, rather than hide like sparrows.
Tuesday Oct 15, 2019
Tuesday Oct 15, 2019
A popular poster hanging from many office walls portrays massive, threatening storm clouds covering the earthen landscape below. All life on the ground has sought a place of safety and shelter. But above the dark, ominous clouds an eagle soars with outstretched wings. The caption reads: “When storms arise, sparrows head for cover, while eagles soar higher.”
When the hardships of life press in all around us and we begin to grow weary, or when a storm or crisis overturns our world and threatens to overwhelm us, we are often inclined to run for shelter, take cover, and wait it out—hoping simply to get through it in one piece. But the eagle knows that in the storm lies both danger and opportunity. By locking its wings in a fixed position, it can use the wind of the storm to fly higher in a matter of seconds, thereby avoiding the perils below and gaining a whole new perspective.
In this four-part “Soar” series, we hear from the prophet Isaiah, who reminds us that, in the face of every storm, God gives us the strength and courage to soar like eagles, rather than hide like sparrows.
Wednesday Oct 09, 2019
Wednesday Oct 09, 2019
In one of his most famous parables, Jesus gives us a model for Christian service through a man who finds himself in the right place at the right time and actually gets off his donkey and serves a person in need.
Like the Good Samaritan, believers are called daily to dismount, get down and dirty, and live a life that makes a difference.
Join us for this series on the call to faithful service and greater community engagement in order to do our essential part in creating a world worth living in.
Wednesday Oct 09, 2019
Wednesday Oct 09, 2019
In one of his most famous parables, Jesus gives us a model for Christian service through a man who finds himself in the right place at the right time and actually gets off his donkey and serves a person in need.
Like the Good Samaritan, believers are called daily to dismount, get down and dirty, and live a life that makes a difference.
Join us for this series on the call to faithful service and greater community engagement in order to do our essential part in creating a world worth living in.
Wednesday Oct 09, 2019
Wednesday Oct 09, 2019
In one of his most famous parables, Jesus gives us a model for Christian service through a man who finds himself in the right place at the right time and actually gets off his donkey and serves a person in need.
Like the Good Samaritan, believers are called daily to dismount, get down and dirty, and live a life that makes a difference.
Join us for this series on the call to faithful service and greater community engagement in order to do our essential part in creating a world worth living in.
Wednesday Oct 09, 2019
Wednesday Oct 09, 2019
In one of his most famous parables, Jesus gives us a model for Christian service through a man who finds himself in the right place at the right time and actually gets off his donkey and serves a person in need.
Like the Good Samaritan, believers are called daily to dismount, get down and dirty, and live a life that makes a difference.
Join us for this series on the call to faithful service and greater community engagement in order to do our essential part in creating a world worth living in.
Wednesday Oct 09, 2019
Wednesday Oct 09, 2019
One of the greatest mistakes we can make in this life is to assume that God’s presence and call is limited to certain “holy” times and places. We’re inclined to think that God-moments only happen in church, or during particularly religious experiences, or when we are especially deserving of them. We tend to look for God in the extraordinary, when more often, God shows up most powerfully in the unexpected and ordinary moments of our lives.
Moses had one of those moments. While tending Jethro’s sheep in the wilderness, a bush caught fire but was not consumed—an extraordinary event in the most ordinary of places. Moses took notice, paused, beheld the beauty and mystery of it all, and heard a distinct call that would change his life and the course of history for the Hebrew people.
Every bush is burning around us, but it takes grace, patience, and imagination to awaken to the God who speaks through them. How do we recognize the signs of God’s in-breaking presence in the ordinary world? How can we trust and respond to them when they seem so unlikely and unexpected?