This week we do a recap of what we have been learning so far in the book of Genesis and look at the story of Jacob’s ladder as God appears in an in-between place.
A new work of God in San Diego's East Village
A new work of God in San Diego's East Village
Sermons on Belief (Page 3)
This week we learn of the relatively lighthearted love story of Isaac and Rebekah. Still, God shows God’s radical provision in providing a way forward that is different in better than any we could think of.
Today, we pronounce the gospel that Christ is risen and death’s reign is over.
We keep it simple and look at three ways to respond to this remarkable reading, a hymn of the ancient church, today: We are to contemplate what Christ has done, become a people who witness what Christ has done, and learn to live what Christ has done.
We talk about the gospel according to Paul, and what it means to set our mind on the Spirit. We look at what it means to live, breathe, die, and trust God with everything.
In the middle of the Covid-19 crisis (or maybe in the beginning of it…), we pause to be invited into the peace of God.
We take a brief detour into the Luke reading this week and find Jesus encouraging us to bring our experiences of injustice, our frustration, our pain to God in prayer. We are invited and instructed to assault God with our prayers. Will we do so? Or will we lose faith?
In our second stop in 2 Timothy, we find a call to, “Remember Jesus Christ, raised from the dead, a descendent of David.” We look at what it means to remember, and to remember this, specifically.
As we continue to wrestle with the way 1 Timothy calls for the maintenance of the culturally expected social hierarchy of its context, we find that God is inviting us into the fullness of life that is possible when we are content and godly, and urging us to avoid being distracted from the gospel by…