The rhythm of Sabbath can help grow faith in God’s provision of daily hope. This hope was established in the wilderness, when the Hebrew people were freed from slavery. They were challenged to pack lightly and rest easy once a week. Tools they used to build a Sabbath–habit included prayer
Continue readingWe are the church because of being God’s children, following Jesus and the free gift of the Holy Spirit. Paul teaches us that the one Spirit makes the church and moves it. He also notes that we are all gifted in different ways so as to the Church’s mission: to
Continue readingAre you feeling “ready to make a defense to anyone who demands from you an accounting for the hope that is in you? Are you ready to explain to others why you believe the Holy is alive in each one of us – yes even in times like these? Our
Continue readingWe come to know our faith in a new way when challenged or in doubt. What may have seemed easy at first – believing in the statements of the New Creed and living them out in the world – becomes harder when we doubt Jesus was truly incarnate during his
Continue readingJesus lives up to his last week, seeking to model spiritual friendship and leadership. He is open, honest, authentic, slow to anger but never one to avoid conflict. How can we celebrate his great love for friends, learning to love like him? How can we prepare our hearts to not
Continue readingJesus, the great healer of his area, arrives too late to heal a very dear friend. Jesus instead sits with tears in community, listening to all the emotions of his friends. God, the great healer, then intervenes. God raises Lazarus and proclaims that death is never the end. How do
Continue readingGod is offering us both guidance and rest in this Psalm. Spiritual friendships are those in which we are asked to both receive and give guidance as well as rest. After resting from judgement in the warmth of compassion, how can we help guide each other into growth. How can
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Exodus 24:12-18 God in the Cloud Matthew 17:1-9 Transfiguration In The Holy Manners, the behaviour covenant shared here at Robertson-Wesley, is the call to pause before speaking to ponder what others are saying and how we are feeling before constructing our response. It also calls on us to affirm the
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Scriptures: Micah 6:1-8 What does God require? 1 Corinthians 1:18-31 Jesus became for us wisdom We are called to follow Jesus who has been described as light for the world. However, in the Bible, God is both in the light and in the cloudy darkness, both in the struggles for
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Isaiah 42:1-9 Jesus, a servant Matthew 3: 13-17 John baptizes Jesus We are called to follow Jesus who came to not only lead others but to follow. After following and listening to John in the desert, Jesus approaches him and asks to receive a baptism. After initial confusion, John says
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