Finding our Identity in God’s Love
As people of the Epiphany, we follow the one who was named Beloved from heaven, because we too find our identity in that love which calls us to love.
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Trading Power for Love, Joy, and Peace
When we let go of power and control, when we love our neighbor as ourselves, we end up like the wise men, overwhelmed with unspeakable joy.
Dwelling in the Transcendent and Immanent
We get to worship God, the transcendent, and we get to build God’s kingdom on earth, the immanent, because God came to this world on Christmas.
The Most Important Word this Christmas
God, at Christmas, tells us that there will never again be a “for” that is not based on a fundamental, unalterable, everlasting, unswerving “with.”
Childlike Joy and Peace on Earth
This is the season of joy because of an act of love so radical and unbelievable, a love that can and will transform everything.
Unbelievable Love that Changes the World
In a moment of love so radical we cannot fully comprehend it, we now have “God with us.” The creator God is coming into the world to save the world.
Peace in a World Without Peace
Peace comes through choosing to rest fully in the arms of the Great Physician, the one who will transform us with the Spirit and with refining fire.
Light and Hope Until the Very End
We know how to live in light of all that is to come, both personally, with our own endings, and cosmically, with the end of the world as we know it. We live in love.
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.
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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.”
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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.
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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.
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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.