So Much More Can Be Mended
If Peter can be mended after his denials and despair, if the gap between us and God can be mended, surely too will our broken world be. Are you ready?
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The Wages of Sin are Indeed Death
Sin is not indifferent nor neutral; it actively kills what is good. And tonight, we see sin killing Jesus, goodness and love personified.
“Mother, Here is Overwhelming Love”
Mary sees her own son, born in a manger to her and Joseph so many years ago, dying, brutally, for us. She sees the love of God, saving the world.
Joining in Humble Service, Mutual Love
I think we need to wash each other’s feet all the time, the entire church, the entire world. This may be the sacrament this world is deeply missing.
Letting These Stories Define Our Reality
May we see that Jesus is showing us a better way and that the ways of power commonly viewed as common sense are not only wrong, they are anti-Christ.
Living in the Resurrection and the Life
Death, grief, pain, they are real, we know this. But in Christ, we have life. That is what Jesus is inviting us to: to life, life now and everlasting.
Living Water for the Wilderness of Life
Instead of living in our anxiety, fear, complaint, concern, may we live in love, joy and peace, relying on our faith that the Lord is indeed among us.
Ring the Bells that Still Can Ring
Ring the bells that still can ring. Forget your perfect offering. There is a crack in everything. That's how the light gets in. Go, be that light.
For God So Loves the World
May we so love the world, so that everyone we meet may believe and love and join us in this eternal life, that the world might be saved through love.
Living for Something Bigger than Ourselves
May we all work and dream and love as passionately as she did, and may we all live for something bigger than ourselves. Amen.
Defeating the Devil, Living as Beloved
All temptation comes from a refusal or inability to believe in your identity as beloved children of God, about choosing something less than God.
To Die, Rise, and Fully Love
We pray that God will make in *all of us* new and contrite hearts, to help us see our own sin and lead us toward a life marked by the love of God.
Epiphany
Letting the Love of Christ Shine
We need only put God’s unending love for us and our love for God and for our neighbors on a lampstand, and let it shine, let it shine, let it shine.
Epiphany
The Answer to the World’s Problems
We, as followers of Jesus, land here in these texts, in the Beatitudes, in 1 Corinthians, and in Micah: Do justice, love mercy, walk humbly with God.
Epiphany
Follow this Foolishness, Proclaim this Power
Love can feel like foolishness to anyone who sees those with power, money, and weapons dominating those without, but this love is the power of God.
Epiphany
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.
Epiphany
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.
Epiphany
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.”
Epiphany
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.
Epiphany
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.
Epiphany
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.
Epiphany
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.
Epiphany
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.