Both contemporary and ancient understandings of the rainbow sign point to God’s expansive love overcoming our fears and hostilities.
An Open Table where Love knows no borders
An Open Table where Love knows no borders
Sermons on Covenant
The faithful who have gone before us are held securely in the powerful gracious memory of God, where their love and prayers for us live on until we are united with them in resurrection.
Jesus reinvigorates the Covenant so that his Word of liberation and life is integrated into our lives, & we can live the Covenant in a new way in the world.
God’s covenant of love and grace is made unconditionally, not depending even on our response, and so the promises are made to our children whether they respond or not.
The ten commandments are not a measure of our moral accomplishment, but a gift offered to God by a grateful covenant people.
The church is formed when we ask Christ to rule over us and make a covenant with him to define the terms.
Christian ascetic discipline is not about earning God’s acceptance, but about banishing the demons so that we can live life more fully in the here and now.