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Gracious Religion
We honor God with our choices. We are all held accountable to God for the way we live and the way we love. The moment we stop striving for peace and love, they will know that we aren’t practicing what God wants from us.
Living Graciously
Just because we welcome everyone doesn’t mean we accept all behavior. We still need to love people even if we can’t accept their behavior. We need to show grace even if for our own safety we need to put distance between ourselves and certain others. God loves them, too, even if we need distance.
Let Us Not Grow Weary
Who belongs? Who gets to decide? Our story is bigger and more complicated than we realize. God welcomes all of us, it is we humans that need to work on that. We need to tell the whole story and do what is right.
On the Seventh Day, God Rested
Note, the sermon starts with about 4 minutes of (mostly) silence. We are biological machines that need to power down and rest perioically. God is not a workaholic, the purpose of creation was relational, so we can rest in and with creation and our neighbors. Savor it and give thanks for it. All we need is already here.
Connecting through the Holy Spirit
The Holy Spirit unites us on many levels. In times of need, in times of celebration, reach out. Find the strength of connection. Don’t be an part time Facebook connection. Be a constant!
Drawing to the Heart of God
We are one body in Christ. Each part plays a role. Find unity through the heart of God. Find common purpose.
Good Trouble: The Power of Sharing, Serving and Helping
Spreading the power of God’s word can be difficult, even life threatening. But we move forward using the example of Jesus…represented so well by the strong women in the Bible and those in our lives.
So, What?
Our needs shouldn’t come first. God calls us to love all, seek justice for everyone, no one left behind or pushed aside. There is something more powerful than we are, something we can’t explain. The world needs us to embody this love.
Believing
Jesus brings the Good News. Our job is to get out of the locked room and take Jesus’ message to the world. We need to open the door and go out and spread the Good News, not just saying the words, but living them.