Sunday, August 7, 2016

Body of Christ:  “Formed in Communion”
August 21, 2016 

We continue our focus on the ╬ “One Bread, One Body” Our sacraments not only shape us individually as people of God, but form us collectively as the Body of Christ in the world today.  The apostle Paul proclaims the unity that God calls us into.  And he says God’s table is where that formation takes place.  “We who are many are one body, for we all partake of the one bread.” (1 Corinthians 10:17)  We sing this in our worship together:  “One Bread, one Body, one Lord of all!”  When we share in the bread of life and the wine of forgiveness, we become the hands and feet, the heads and hearts, the bone and sinew of that Body, living into God’s vision of a world redeemed, restored. 

Friends of Jesus

“One Body, Many Members.” August 7, 2016

╬ “Friends of Jesus!”  




Sunday, July 17, 2016

Sing the old, old story !
July 17, 2016


“Blessed be the Lord God!”  sings Zechariah.  In all places and times, people have found a voice for their abiding trust and deepest beliefs in songs of faith.  In the brilliance of new days and from the depths of darkness, songs have poured forth as natural expressions of love and longing, of despair and hope, of fear and consolation.  All are rooted in a foundational truth.  All revolve around one, central, ancient story – the “old, old story” – of the love and goodness of God that ultimately prevails.  From the songs of Hannah, Moses and Miriam, to Zechariah’s song and Mary’s Magnificat, the old, old story resounds.  And it continues to find new melody and meter in lives of faith today. 
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