As we launch or continue our journey of faith, are we called to look for signs of God’s presence or are we called to be
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This Week’s Message
Knowing God and making a declaration of faith is an important part of the journey of faith. But then what usually follows an encounter with
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This Week’s Message
We seem to be always beginning. Or at least we have a tendency to speak about how we start our journey of faith. We want to
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This Week’s Message
We claim to want fairness, or at least we want fairness in a way that benefits us. Deep down, however, the truth is that we
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This Week’s Message
When we ask, “What are you seeking?” we are talking about kingdom living. We are talking about the community of faith representing the body of
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Worship this week can be a reminder that we are seeking the face of God when we gather but also when we scatter. Our hunger
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We prefer the obvious. We like to be sure. But faith is something else indeed. Hebrews 11:1 reminds us that faith “is the conviction of
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As in last week’s story, Jesus seems to be telling us that God is somewhat sloppy when it comes to bestowing gifts. Actually, it wasn’t
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Every time we pray the Lord’s Prayer and invite God’s kingdom to come on earth as it is in heaven, we are engaging in an
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The yoke that Christ speaks of in our text (Matthew 11:29-30) is a symbol of relationship. When we come together to worship, we come together.
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We’re about hospitality this week. That sounds like a casual, or maybe even an extra kind of thing. “It’s not something essential,” we might think.
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Having accepted the call to become a disciple and to help others become disciples, we now begin to understand what we don’t know. Or rather
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Jesus sent the disciples out and asked them to trust that the resources that they needed to accomplish their mission were within reach. He told
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A disciple is a follower. That means there must be someone to follow and that someone wants followers. Considering that, in the gospel accounts, Jesus
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Trinity Sunday is about God and not about us. And yet, because we can know God only in relationship, it has to be about us
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