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 of who he has revealed himself to be. In short, we lift up the name of Christ as we worship this week, loudly and publicly.
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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 in glory on the mount of transfiguration. Like the disciples who were privileged to be with him in that moment, we often miss the significance
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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 needs in your prayer time? What acts of service within the community are already in place that you can celebrate? What additional needs could be
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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 salt, or do you want to be light?” You already are. So, given that declaration from our Lord, how will we season? What will we
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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 is blessing those who already have a vision of what it means to be fully alive in Christ and encouraging those who haven’t yet caught
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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 the community has the same mind might be a bit of an overreach. Yet here is the call from Paul’s first letter to the Corinthians. And
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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 faith. Too often, we spend time wishing – wishing we had more people or more resources or more volunteers or more activity. But what if,
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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 consider some of the most famous passages of scripture to help us shape a vision of the life we are called to live—not just a
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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 Epiphany, we embrace the light that is the Christ, but not as a denial of the God who dwells in the dark. Instead, it could
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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 this threshold moment when excruciating pain gives way to ecstatic joy as Mary draws her baby to her chest and he takes his first breath.
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