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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This Week’s Message
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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This Week’s Message
This week, it is easy, Peter talks about stones, about being stones, living stones. Psalm 31 talks about the rock that is the Lord supporting
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How do we celebrate the guardian? We describe the attributes of this guardian best through sightings of the work of the Christ among us. When have
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Today is a day for testimony. We need to remind ourselves and one another that we have indeed been set free. Notice all the past tense,
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The epistle text for this week lends itself to being paraphrased into a creedal statement or affirmation of faith for the whole congregation to recite
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Easter is a shout of jubilation that shakes the foundation of our presuppositions about what makes a good life. There are traditions and expectations aplenty
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Every day is a holy day if you live into the truth of the ever-present God. Every moment is a moment rich with possibility and
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Here at the end of the Lenten observance (well, almost the end anyway), we have hints of Resurrection. We start with the Psalm, which begins
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Our texts this week are about being chosen by God. Most of us don’t think that we were chosen, certainly not to be king like
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Water is a theme for the week. We’re thirsty this week. That’s the point. Thirsting for the living waters that Jesus spoke about to the
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This is the week that the “moving out” part of our theme is most obvious. Whether we are talking about the call to go to
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Our worship is focused on Christ this week. We sing praise to him; we pray in awe of him; we pledge to follow him because
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Transfiguration Sunday, like Reign of Christ or Christ the King Sunday, is about the identity of the one we follow. Jesus the Christ is revealed
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Relationships within the body are important, but so is the relationship of the church with the wider community. How can you lift community concerns or
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