Here again, Jesus asks us to reflect on the power we already have. “You are salt. You are light.” Not, “Do you want to be
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This Week’s Message
How do we balance blessing and challenge? How do we offer gratitude and exhortation both? Jesus isn’t condemning folk for not living into this promise; he
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This Week’s Message
This is a hard one, don’t you think? In our increasingly contentious society and world, to consider that a sign of the kin-dom is that
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This Week’s Message
Our text this week includes Paul’s assertion that the church has everything it needs to be the church. That’s an amazing and powerful statement of
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This Week’s Message
We are counting the weeks after Epiphany and attempting to get a glimpse of what life as the people of God might be like. We
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In this Christmas series of sorts, “God of the Dark and the Light,” we have acknowledged the presence of God even in the darkness. On
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How God Shows up by Rev. Lisle Gwynn Garrity Inspired by Luke 2:1-20 In this image, as if looking past a curtain, we peer into
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This is odd, isn’t it? The last Sunday of Advent, yet there is a whole week until Christmas. May this extra time allow us a
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Joy Sunday says it all. The third Sunday of Advent is marked by the pink- or rose-colored candle in the wreath in many traditions. It
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It is the second Sunday of Advent, and we’re making a declaration. Whether we are heeding the call of John the Baptist to “bear fruit
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Our introduction to the message this week refers to this illustration “Genealogy of Christ” by Rev. Lauren Wright Pittman, which was inspired by Matthew 1:1-17.
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“What does it mean to speak of the Christ who reigns, or Christ the king?” What is clear from the gospel accounts is that Jesus
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What are you distracted by? That’s a question underlying our text this week. What is it that draws your attention away from your call to
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The gospel writers love these stories—stories where Jesus gets the better of those who seek to outsmart him appear in all the gospels. But a
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What would it be like to encounter Jesus face to face? That’s the question this series sets out to help us answer. We can’t know, of
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