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Prayer for a Rough Week
Embracing Spirit, it’s been a rough week more shootings political discord polarization our hopes dashed and the death of loved ones it’s also been a hopeful week relationships & connections kindnesses shown & commitments to the stranger and the birth…
Ruth 4: Somos Uno
Listen: https://beingtim.files.wordpress.com/2018/07/ruth-4.m4a God within us, divinity connecting us. We are one. Somos Uno. +++ The Moabites were despised by the Israelites because they were descendants of a sexual union between Lot and his eldest daughter. In the first chapter of Ruth…
Ruth 3: Seeing As God Sees
Listen: https://beingtim.files.wordpress.com/2018/07/ruth-3.m4a Well, this is one of those parts of the Bible that you’re never sure you want to preach. It is laced with sexual innuendo and maybe explicit sexual behavior. +++ Just look at this third chapter! Naomi tells Ruth…
Ruth 2: Life is Hard
Listen: https://beingtim.files.wordpress.com/2018/07/ruth-2.m4a Life is hard. Life is strikingly hard when you’re poor. It’s harder still when you’re poor and from an immigrant group that is despised and demonized by those around you. [pause] And it certainly doesn’t make it any easier…
Ruth 1
Listen: https://beingtim.files.wordpress.com/2018/07/ruth-1.m4a Chapter 1 of Ruth Once upon a time… Elimelech and Naomi lived in Bethlehem Sons: Mahlon & Chillion famine left Bethlehem for food to live in Moab sons took Moabite wives Orpah Ruth Anyway… Elimelech dies Mahlon & Chillion…
Rejoicing in Prison
Imprisoned, Paul would be without food gifts from outside its walls. The Philippian church held him in their hearts and shared God’s grace with him in his imprisonment. Imprisoned, Paul kept focused on sharing the Good News with those around…
Tagged with: Paul, perseverance
Posted in Philippians, Philippians 1, Philippians 1:1-18, Uncategorized
Posted in Philippians, Philippians 1, Philippians 1:1-18, Uncategorized
Miraculous & Mysterious Things
The stone was rolled away. Jesus said to her, “Mary.” She turned and said to him in Aramaic, Rabbouni” (which means Teacher). (John 20:16 CEB) Mary was in the presence of the transforming Jesus. Mary Magdalene left and announced to…
Listen! Do You Perceive It?
Listen! Do you perceive it? That’s God calling to us. Let us choose to respond together in true community. We are just ordinary people filled with flaws and imperfections. Yet we are God’s chosen instruments. In worship and our actions,…
Journey to Damascus
Wherever we are in along the road… God sojourns alongside us. In our confusion and our distress, in our joy and excitement… God feels our emotions with us. In our fragmented world, so desperately in need of hope and healing……
Tagged with: Calling of Paul, change, expansive love, narrative lectionary, Saul, transformation
Posted in Acts, Acts 9, Acts 9:1-19, Call to Worship, Uncategorized
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