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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This Week’s Message
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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This Week’s Message
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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This Week’s Message
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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Pentecost calls for celebration, for signs and symbols of a God who pushes through, who rushes in when it seems all is lost. This is
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What are we supposed to be ready to do? Tell our story! How do we get prepared to tell our story? Testimony is a long-standing tradition
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