Everyone Who Thirsts: A Sermon on Inclusion for Lent 3C on Isaiah 55:1-9
What happened to God so loves the entirety of the cosmos (John 3:16) and all are equal before God (e.g. Genesis 1:27, Galatians 3:28)?
What happened to God so loves the entirety of the cosmos (John 3:16) and all are equal before God (e.g. Genesis 1:27, Galatians 3:28)?
What if witnessing or experiencing some sort of Transfiguration is what allows us to do the work of bringing Divine Love into the world?
How do we as followers of Jesus reclaim this command to love our enemies and treat others as we wish to be treated?
These words are too easily put in service to the Empire rather than the work of liberation.
Do not demand agape, a deep, transforming love, if what is on offer is phileos, a binding, affectionate love. An Epiphany 5C sermon starter.
If healing, wholeness, forgiveness, unity, mercy do not result from our actions, then our actions are not the way of agape, the way of Christ.
We are to include and welcome those who cannot see their own value and those who have been devalued by the world.
The problem is that most of us do not alter our roads home after we encounter Empire; we just continue on as if nothing happened.
On the brink of a New Year, perhaps it’s time we learn something from Sophia and the Logos, something we maybe should have learned a long time ago. We’ve endured 2020 and 2021. The predictions for the next couple of months in terms of COVID are pretty ugly given the omicron variant’s high contagion rates. … Read More
Mary and Joseph lost Jesus. Before we judge we should ask if we know where Jesus is.