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Series: The Ten CommandmentsThe Fourth Commandment: Rest for the Restless Hebrews 4:1-11, NRSV Exodus 20:8-11, NRSV Reflections Sabbath is the cornerstone of faithful freedom. Such faithful practice of work stoppage is an act of resistance. It declares in bodily ways that we will not participate in the anxiety system that pervades our social environment. We […]

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Series: The Ten CommandmentsThe Third Commandment: Entrusted with God’s Name Exodus 3:11-17, NRSV Exodus 20:2, 7, NRSV Reflections If it doesn’t look like love, if it’s not beautiful, if it doesn’t promote peace, let it go, it doesn’t flow from God. — Brian Zahnd Commandments are like Israelites’ constitutions Don’t misused God’s name, not to […]

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Series: The Ten CommandmentsThe Second Commandment: God is Revealed, Not Created Exodus 20:4, NRSV Colossians 1:15-23, NRSV Reflections God says to us in the 2nd Commandment, “If you stop trying to make me into your likeness, I can start making you into my likeness. If you only will let me stretch your imagination instead of […]

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Series: The Ten CommandmentsThe First Commandment: No Other Gods Exodus 20:1-3, NRSV Matthew 22:34-40, NRSV Reflections Anything can serve as a counterfeit god, especially the very best things in life… A counterfeit god is anything so central and essential to your life that, should you lose it, your life would feel hardly worth living. [It] […]

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Series: The Ten CommandmentsIntroduction: Pathway to Freedom Exodus 19:1-6, 20:1-17, NRSV Reflections The truth is that life simply works better when we live in tune with the designs of its Creator. God’s commands are not hammers over our heads to get us to shape up. Rather, they are his loving instructions for how to do […]

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Promised Power Acts 2:1-21, NRSV Reflections Anewkind offire, andnew speechbrought to voice:words that are flamesthrough walls that divide;language that’s praise sungin harmonies of the Spirit;inclusive vocabulary of love.Drink deep the new wine offreedom, all slaves. Dreamas equals, world’s sons anddaughters. See the visionsof the kingdom of peace.Wherever wind blowsthe Spirit will flow:the fire thatquenchesourthirstforGod’s love. — Andrew […]

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The God You Already Know Acts 17:16-31, NRSV Reflections God is no fonder of intellectual slackers than of any other slackers. If you are thinking of becoming a Christian, I warn you you are embarking on something which is going to take the whole of you, brains and all. — C.S. LewisMere Christianity Paul’s distress […]

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Freedom in Chains Acts 16:11-34, NRSV Reflections Those people who pray know what most around them either don’t know or choose to ignore: centering life in the insatiable demands of the ego is the sure path to doom…. They know that life confined to the self is a prison, a joy-killing, neurosis-producing, disease-fomenting prison. — […]

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Jesus Appears to Thomas John 20:19-31, NRSV Reflections It is not as a boy that I believe in Christ and confess him, but my hosanna has passed through a great furnace of doubts. — Fyodor Dostoevskyfrom an entry in his personal notebook Competing realities: Our own introspection vs outside world New reality for disciples after […]

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Because God is Love John 20:1-18, NRSV Reflections We show hospitality to strangers not merely because they need it, but because we need it, too. The stranger at the door is the living symbol and memory that we are all strangers here. This is not our house, our table, our food, our lodging; this is […]

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