Seeking Christ's Way and Welcoming All
What do you do when it feels like there is less and less in this world that you can change? Who are God’s people called to be as crises continue, as chaos multiplies, as trauma compounds? How do we follow God’s way of liberation when the world is falling apart?
4 The Lord God has given me the tongue of a teacher,that I may know how to sustain the weary with a word.Morning by morning he wakens— wakens my ear to listen as those who are taught.5 The Lord God has opened my ear, and I was not rebellious, I did not turn backwards.6 I gave my back to those whoContinue reading “What Is Your Flagpole?”
Hear now the new testament reading from James the second chapter. This translation is the NRSV with a few alterations by Pastor Dexter. My family, do you with your acts of favoritism really believe in our glorious Lord Jesus Christ? For if a person with gold rings and in fine clothes comes into your assembly,Continue reading “Action Builds Belief”
Now when the Pharisees and some of the scribes who had come from Jerusalem gathered around him, 2they noticed that some of his disciples were eating with defiled hands, that is, without washing them. 3(For the Pharisees, and all the Jews, do not eat unless they thoroughly wash their hands, thus observing the tradition ofContinue reading “The Fruit of Our Traditions”
Finally, be strong in the Lord and in the strength of his power. Put on the whole armor of God, so that you may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil. For our struggle is not against enemies of blood and flesh, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the cosmicContinue reading “Prepared and Protected”
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