Fluency in both Grief and Hope
Hardship, as Jesus says, is inevitable, and it will come. But that hardship is also our opportunity as Christians to testify to goodness and to love.
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A Wee, Little, Wealthy, Unlikely Saint
St. Zacchaeus saw Jesus coming, ran toward him, climbed a tree to see him, and then gave what he could give so that he could walk in the way of love.
Persistence in Protest, Prayer, and Patience
A life of prayer will ground us in a faith and in a relationship with God that will form us into a people best equipped to change the world around us.
The Foreigner as Teacher, Never Threat
“Jesus, Master, have mercy on us,” for not knowing enough modern-day lepers. Lead us into those relationships, that we may learn from them and love.
Baptismal Community as an Alternative to Hate
It is our privilege here to be a different example... to lead each other toward life, toward the practice of love, toward connection, toward our God.
The Life that Really is Life
We are invited to the life that really is life, the life of service, of giving up our love of money, of finding security and happiness in God alone.
Prioritizing Relationship, Serving a Loving God
We can serve money, security, our own priorities... or we can serve God, we can love, we can follow Christ and be led by the Holy Spirit. Choose.
The Good Shepherd Needs No Fences
We are all worthy of that sort of love, of a shepherd who leaves everything to save us; we are all worthy of a community who celebrates our return.
Setting Everything Down to Follow Jesus
“We must not foolishly cling to things,” Ajahn Chah writes. We hold them, for a time, but we “let them go. Good or bad, we let them all go.”
Dreams of Light Rising in Darkness
The mess of this world should break all of our hearts, but what we have in Isaiah, in Jesus, is a reminder that God has far better dreams for us.
Live In Your Faith, Little Flock
Having faith this morning means stepping out into our hopes, certain that God will indeed give us the kingdom when we choose to live in love.
Prayer: Not Just for the Monks
Prayer allows us to sit with the God of love, transforming our frustrations into opportunities to show love, mercy, and grace. It changes everything.
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The Uncommon Sense of our Uncommon Teacher
I can imagine Jesus using his teaching voice to explain this love... Our teacher knows that we, like little children, learn best through stories.
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Flags, Faith, and Service to the King
Our relationship with God, our willingness to live lives of love and peace in relationship, our identity as a new creation, that is indeed everything.
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The Good Fruit of Following Jesus
Following Christ is a demanding task. This Christian life is not an intellectual assent to creeds nor a box checked. It is a full life transformation.
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All Means All: Nationalities, Sexualities, Everyone
We must find ways to live and advocate for love in our own families, in our communities, in our nation, and in our world that so desperately needs it.
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An Invitation to World-Changing Relationships
We are invited as followers of Christ to change the world, to bring forth the kingdom of God in our daily lives. And we can start doing it today.
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God’s Presence Changes Everything Still Today
God’s presence is available and with us today, comforting us, teaching us, reminding us, shaping us, to make this all more like the Kingdom of God.
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Nancy's Love in this Life and the Next
Perfect submission, all is at rest; I in my Savior am happy and blest, watching and waiting, looking above, filled with his mercy, lost in his love.
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The Daily Journey of World-Changing Love
We may not always love particularly well, but when we keep love as our guide, we trust that in so doing we are being formed by it all along the way.
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Making Jesus Real for our World
Jesus commands us to love one another here in the church because it is our example that makes Christ real for the world to see.
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God Calls the Least Likely (Us) to Love
He met Paul and Peter where they were, and he invited them to the way of love, both to be loved and to love others. He calls us just the same.
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A Community that Proves the Resurrection
We do our best to live the gospel, and that is how we share the truth of the resurrection with others, not with what we say but with who we are.
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The Ending of this Comedy: Love Wins
Love wins. The ending is a good one: death and sin have been defeated once and for all. So choose love. It is more than enough.