It occurs to me that following means leaving. One cannot follow anyone or anything and stay put. So, if following Jesus means leaving, what does Jesus call us to leave?
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We’ll begin a new series on Sunday focusing on learning as an important part of our followership. We are students no matter what our age or our situation in life.
Around the turn of a new year, we are most aware of this sense of living in the between time, this sense of past and future.
The good news is that light has penetrated the darkness and the light that penetrates darkness is the light of love.
The season of Advent is a season of preparation and we see that clearly in the words of the prophet Isaiah.
It will be a quieter Christmas. It will be a still Christmas and in that stillness perhaps we can focus more clearly on the meaning of incarnation — of God’s entrance into human experience in the person of Jesus.
It will be a different Thanksgiving holiday, for sure, but one thing will remain: We will remember to do what the holiday is supposed to remind us to do: give thanks.
What do we mean by “spirituality?” What is a “healthy” spirituality? Perhaps an even more important question is Why do we need a healthy spirituality? What is the goal of “spiritual growth,” especially in this trying time we’re in?
This week we’ll continue our Lenten worship series, I Am, with the sermon, “The True Vine.” In the Gospel of John, Jesus compares himself — and us — metaphorically to a vine and its branches: “I am the vine; you are the branches.