Scripture: Deuteronomy 30:15-20As we begin a journey through The Season of Creation, we hear Moses invite the people of Israel to “Choose life,” joining in covenant with God, and perhaps with the land which they are to inhabit. How shall we choose life for ourselves but for our world as well? What covenant are we … Read more
Scripture: Luke 14:1, 7-14Jesus attends a dinner and notices the temptation to seek places of honor and power close to the head of the table. How might we, even as the church, have been a part of the same sorts of temptations? How can we be a church that gives up our seat at the … Read more
Scripture: Isaiah 58:9b-14The prophet Isaiah invites us to look to the foundations of our spiritual practices: is it enough to personally keep the sabbath? Or should we strive to create a community in which all are seen as created in the image of God and worthy of rest?
Scripture: Hebrews 1-3, 8-16What we now call the Letter to the Hebrews began as a sermon to a people setting off on a new way, reinterpreting scripture and story through a new lens of faith. So we hear of Abraham and Sarah leaving home for an uncertain future in God’s promise. It is a promise … Read more
Scripture: Luke 12:13-21What are we “invested” in? As Jesus tells a story about a man with a lot of stuff, but apparently no one to share it with, we might ask how we “store up” connection and community which yield life, rather than the hungers of isolation.