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Remembering what Christ demonstrated for US to do
Dear Church,Stop gathering around the name of Jesus while ignoring the ways of Jesus.Remember the poor.Visit the prisoner.Feed the hungry.Clothe the naked.Welcome the stranger.Deliver the oppressed.Serve the least.And rise for the marginalized.He waits for us there.— Carlos A. Rodríguez (@HappySonship) December 18, 2018
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“The Voice” goes to church
There are some great gospel songs and even singers who win with the gospel genre on “The Voice.” This lady took the show TO CHURCH this week!
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What if the circumstances DON’T change?
Part of a hidden belief (or sometimes not so hidden) in American Christianity is that somehow coming to Christ will help some situation get easier. Or better. Or the bad situation will at some point go away. What if the circumstances don’t change?
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Trust and abide
Readings for today included Exodus 15 and John 15. Both are calling us to radically trust the Lord.
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The mind set on God — true abundance
Reading for today: Psalm 42, 43, 85, 86 Gen. 46:1-7, 28-34 1 Cor. 9:1-15 Mark 6:47-56 Our need is to turn our minds to Christ. Our problem is that we are self-obsessed. “Teach me your way, Lord; so that I can walk in your truth. Make my heart focused only on honoring your name.” — Ps. 86:11 Some thoughts from…
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The foolish road
The way of the cross doesn’t make sense. Not to this world. Not to culturalized Christianity. But the way of the cross is exactly what we need. Reading for today: Psalm 45, 47, 48 Gen. 37:12-24 I Cor. 1:20-31 Mark 1:14-28 This hymn was sung in the church we attended the past Sunday. The words have tumbled through my spirit ever…
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God of the Oppressed
The scandal is that the gospel means liberation, that this liberation comes to the poor, and that it gives them the strength and the courage to break the conditions of servitude. This is what the Incarnation means. God in Christ comes to the weak and the helpless, and becomes one with them, taking their condition of oppression as his own…
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One humanity
In that renewal there is no longer Greek and Jew, circumcised and uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian, slave and free; but Christ is all and in all! (Col. 3:11, NRSV)
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Our agendas in the Kingdom of God
Now as Jesus was going out of the temple courts, one of his disciples said to him, “Teacher, look at these tremendous stones and buildings!” Jesus said to him, “Do you see these great buildings? Not one stone will be left on another. All will be torn down!” So while he was sitting on the Mount of Olives opposite the…
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The Kingdom of God belongs to the seriously messed up
“When Jesus described himself as a physician to sinners, a healer of the inner life, he was calling himself much more than one who associated with the broken, more even than one who could and would forgive them for the damage they had wreaked in their relationships with God and with one another. He was claiming to be one who could take damaged souls…
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