Here now is how the Christian is to respond to pain and suffering, by turning not to the god of mammon, but the true, living God. When we do, our pain is not only acknowledged, but we find a partner in pain, a God who suffers through and with us. A God who redeems old…
What is different for Christians, though, is that we not only strive to finish our own masterworks, we allow God to finish his masterwork, which is you, and me, and every soul in the world and all of his creation! In this way, everyone has a masterpiece which is their own life, and you are…
Paul says, don’t trust your eyes, don’t trust your vision-100%-because your hard-wired glasses, the invisible glasses by which all humans see life, is blurry and flawed. Only in looking for God can we truly see, truly find full understanding and completion. Yes this full understanding and completion will take place beyond this life, but it…
Our age is in danger of becoming-through and through-a human engineered life. Engineering is a great tool, building great science and machines. But men are not machines, to be engineered and optimized. Yet we are sold that message daily. Are your eyes baggy, your lips thin, get surgery and injections-engineer, optimize! Is your constant striving…
That’s why Paul’s deep wisdom about the glory of the body is so important, and why each and every week when we come to worship in this church, we actual reverse the disembodiment of modern society. Every Sunday we are called back into our bodies, back into this community, back into the here and now.…
Well perhaps it is no surprise, that thousands of years ago, Jesus asked such questions. He was the master of such questions which-in a few words-invite us to consider our lives and what we value most. And one of the more famous of such questions -happens to be in today’s Gospel. ‘What do you think?’…
This question of who do you love more mom and dad, was in a way the same question early Christians had on their minds when they were trying to figure out the relationship between God the Father, transcendent, almighty creator of heaven and earth, and the Mother church, God’s body, close knit, caring and nurturing…