Job 1:1; 2:1-10 • Attack on Job’s health. Mark 10: 13-15 • Jesus blesses little children There are a lot of assumptions made about people of faith. Secular society likes to challenge the sacred and are often suspicious of it. Even with in faith communities there is suspicion and assumptions.
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The gospel reading this week closes with the words “Have salt in yourselves, and be at peace with one another.” Being faithful requires a certain spiritedness, a certain saltiness. Or, as Jesus suggests, a certain fire. Our covenant with one another includes a certain passion for the life, health, and
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James 3:13-4:3, 7-8a • 2 kinds of wisdom. Mark 9:30-37 • Whoever welcomes a child, welcomes me. How do we live in community with one another, when we are all so different, when we express our faith differently? We start with a covenant which proclaims how we promise to live
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Wisdom cries and yet the cries seem to go unheeded. How long will scoffers delight in their scoffing? When will we choose knowledge? Have any of you seen similar questions on your facebook pages in recent months? It might be said that there has never been a more important time
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James 2:1-17 • Faith without works is dead Mark 7:24-37 • The Syrophoenician woman’s faith challenges Jesus. Leaders, even Jesus, can lose track of what they have been called to do. The scriptures demonstrate how the courage and the faith of a person who is not part of the community
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The Song of Solomon or the Song of Songs is basically love poetry written by an ancient Israeli poetess. Throughout history Christian churches have read the book as an allegory referring to the love between God and the Church, but it is important to read the text for what it
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Philippians 2: 1-11• Imitating Christ’s Humility Matthew 9:9-17 • The call of Matthew. Quirky, weird, and wonderful, that is what Christians are. Think of any movie about the underdogs and you get a picture of the people that Jesus gathered to be part of God’s ministry in the world. Over
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2 Corinthians 5:6-10, 7-20 • Walk by faith, John 8:1-12 • Never walk alone. In a world that values independence it can be difficult to ask for help, or to name what it is we need. As people of faith, we are called to live in relationship with one another.
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Psalm 42 • As a deer longs for the water. The psalmist speaks of great longing to reconnect with God. The psalmist speaks of a thirst that needs quenching, and a longing so deep that deep calls to deep. We have been living in a time of upheaval, and a
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Ephesians continues to remind us about living authentically, from the ground of our being. What does it mean to live our soul? Today it means living into the beauty, joy, compassion and sensitivity of a musical journey. Join Erin and I as we celebrate relationship through music. Read
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