Joy in Joyless Times
And he said, Go forth, and stand upon the mount before the LORD. And, behold, the LORD passed by, and a great and strong wind rent the mountains, and brake in pieces the rocks before the LORD; but the LORD was not in the wind:
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Jesus Is Coming, Look Busy
Garden of Grace United Church of Christ, Columbia, S.C. Readings: 1 Thessalonians 4:16-17, Revelation 21: 1-4 Sometime last year I arrived at the salon where I get my hair cut and sat down right in the middle of a sticky theological predicament. That’s not something
God Is Still Speaking
God is still speaking: The campaign Never place a period where God has placed a comma. (Gracie Allen) In 2004, the United Church of Christ produced commercials with the tagline “God is still speaking.” The controversy that erupted was not so much over the assertion
Inclusive Love: The Time Has Come for All Christians To Acknowledge It
First Reading: Psalm 94 Gospel Reading: Luke 4:18-19 Inclusive Love: Its time has come Given the increasingly strident professing Christian voices condemning same-sex relationships, and LGBT people in general, it is certainly timely and appropriate to honor those who are sinfully demonized and, in one
Behold the Butt of God
Readings: Exodus 33:12-23, Matthew 22:15-22 I used to think my dad was God. He was a Southern Baptist preacher and each Sunday I’d see him ascend onto the stage and take his place behind the pulpit. There he was – placed high above those of
Cultivating Awareness
To grasp God in all things — this is the sign of your new birth. (Meister Eckhart) Most individuals have found God most clearly in and through others. The Love of others is the Love of God Experienced in this life. (Wendy Wright) What if
Limitless Glory
When I was a child, I had the misfortune – in many ways, although I loved my childhood and my home country – of growing up in a country where much of diversity did not exist. I’m from Somalia, where nearly all people are Somali,
Purchasing Bewilderment
Sell your cleverness and purchase bewilderment; Cleverness is mere opinion, bewilderment intuition. — Rumi God is bipolar. Rev. Dr. J. Henry Jurgens, a practicing psychiatrist and doctor of divinity at Yale University Divinity School, has diagnosed God almighty as suffering from the disorder that afflicts
Mark 3:31-35 | We Are the Lord’s Family
There came then His brethren and His mother, and, standing without, sent unto Him, calling Him. And the multitude sat about Him, and they said unto Him, Behold, thy mother and thy brethren without seek for Thee. And He answered them, saying, Who is my
Romans 12:14 | Bless Them Which Persecute You
Bless them which persecute you: bless, and curse not. (Romans 12:14) How to treat those who hate you Brother Paul, in Romans 12, gives a number of instructions to the saints in Rome, beginning in verse one with the exhortation to “… present your bodies