Easter! Too Good to be True? What if the story that scripture tells isn’t a fairy tale… what if instead, all fairy tales are resonating with and hinting at this singular real story that shapes our history? What if we’re created to long for these stories, to recognize them as familiar?
Hold Fast to the Head Hold fast to the head, and let your ethics flow from that. Stay immersed in the covenant story and your actions will be shaped by it. Don’t need no baggage, don’t need no ticket, just get on board.
God on the Loose Memory can trap us. Many of us have memories linked to shame, inadequacy, and pain, like Israel’s memory of their broken covenants and spiritual infidelity, and these can paralyze us in bitterness, self-pity, and self-doubt.
The God whose name isn’t God This God, He reserves the right to define himself on his own terms. This God, She moves in mysterious ways. This God will not fit into a gendered box, or any other box for that manner. This God shatters any boxes we try to put around them.
Time to Run So let’s run, friends. Let’s keep our ears open for the cloud of witnesses. And what’s even more important, Let’s keep our eyes fixed on Jesus, the Pioneer and Perfector of our faith, he’s out in front and also bringing up the rear, Christ before us, Christ behind us.
Good Friday in Six Voices Fear and paranoia spread like cancer and that small act of burial may cost me my reputation, my membership, who knows? maybe my life. It doesn’t matter. It had to be done. I needed to plant that seed in the earth.
Jesus, Authority and Healing: A Post Election Sermon This morning marks the start of the reign of “Mr. Anyone But Harper,” a new white man who now holds majority power.