While a dedicated building can serve a valuable role in our worship, God calls us to follow far beyond the confines of the building.
An Open Table where Love knows no borders
An Open Table where Love knows no borders
Sermons on 1 & 2 Kings
The stories of Moses, Elijah and Jesus on various mountain tops reveals a process of God’s self-revelation as the one who loves us and suffers for us.
The lectionary reading I’ve decided to focus on today is the reading from 2 Kings 5:1-14. I’ll be honest I chose this passage because of its unfamiliarity. Because of its strangeness. In undergrad I studied anthropology, the study of cultures, be it subcultures within our own culture or cultures more foreign. There’s a saying in anthropology that describes much of what the…
Sometimes God has to kill off our hopes and destroy our faith structures in order to create space for new life and truth to arise among us.
God meets us in the midst of our worst nightmares, calling life out of death, but seldom in the ways we might most wish for.
Pray for all people and let God do the judging. The world may be an evil place but you are God’s children and evil has been overcome.
Christ calls us together into a spirit-filled body in the face of demonic forces that would seek to drive us apart and trick us into the fatal error of going it alone.
We are called to confront and oppose the abuse of power, but also to continue to love and offer forgiveness to those whose actions we are opposing.
When drought and death threaten to destroy us, God will bring us through the barren times and raise us back to life, for doing so is the defining sign of God’s presence.
The gospel calls us on a road to healing and wholeness, but its steps are so deceptively simple (which doesn’t mean easy) that we often don’t take them seriously and so don’t do them.
Any political wisdom which has lost touch with the values revealed to us in the character of God is on the road to disaster. It is not wisdom at all; it is just the mouthings of wealth and power.
The gospel calls us on a road to healing and wholeness, but its steps are so deceptively simple (which doesn’t mean easy) that we often don’t take them seriously and so don’t do them.
A healthy devotional relationship with God is required if we are to sustain our discipleship in the world.