Epiphany
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.
Epiphany
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.
Epiphany
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.
Epiphany
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.
Epiphany
In Which Parade Are We Marching?
It is so easy for all of us to both sing “glory to our Redeemer King” and then fully reject his kingship, his way of love, when it comes to the other.
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A God Who Refuses to Keep Score
Keeping score works if you need winners and losers, if you have a championship to fight for, but it has no place in God’s kingdom.
Epiphany
Pour Some Manure on Me, Church
We do this repentance thing together, you see, shovels in hand and manure nearby, tending to each other as best we can, and always with God’s grace and patience and help.
Epiphany
A Faithful God, Empowering Us to Love
We are tasked today simply with radiating the glory and love of God through our own lives, and if we do that together, with God’s help, then we can trust that the entire world will be changed.
Epiphany
The Cure for our Infected Hearts
Love is for all, without reserve or measure, and we are invited to that kind of love for their sake, for our own sake, and for our world's.
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The Mysterium Tremendum by the Lake
Simon and the future disciples made space for something good for their souls in a world of failure and disappointment, and there, they met God.
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Peace, Joy, and Love in a Broken World
God is still at work amid the pain, amid the cruelty. And, we are invited as Christians to join in God’s redeeming work in the world, working toward a society where all are honored and respected and loved.
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An Epiphany that Reveals the New Creation
We believe that God reveals that Jesus Christ is the beloved, the sign of a new way of being in the world. What will that mean for us?