Faith, Hope, Love 7/7

Christ the King Sunday. What if, on the last liturgical day before Advent (and the new year), we reflected on Jesus, our exemplar of faith, hope, and love?

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Faith, Hope, Love 5/7

The Thing With Feathers. The greatest may be love, but the most fragile is hope: “the active expectation that God will transform the world.” If the church is a learning lab for love, it is also a catalyst for hope – because what we do in here defies expectations, pulls some of God’s future into the present. Not just because we’re nice to each other, but because lives are being transformed.

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Faith, Hope, Love 4/7

Two Surprising Things about Faith. 1. The saving faith we require is not our own; it is Jesus’s faith. 2. The faith we long for is a gift of the Spirit, and held communally.

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Faith, Hope, Love 3/7

Let Justice Roll Down Like Waters. How do we hold onto hope for justice, as we regularly see those in power “push away the needy in the gate”? How do we hold faith through the injustice? What is our hope?

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Faith, Hope, Love 2/7

All You Need is Love. What does love require of us, actually?

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Faith, Hope, Love 1/7

Jehovah Jireh. We begin with the prototypical story of our ancestors’ faith: Abraham’s trust that God will fulfill God’s promises, even as God asks for the relinquishment of the promise’s fulfillment.

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Exodus: It Would Have Been Enough 9/9

Ten Words. Posting the 10 Commandments in every Texas public school classroom is a bad idea… But remembering what they are, how practically the high concept of “love God, love your neighbor” can be rendered, is a good idea.

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Exodus: It Would Have Been Enough 8/9

You Can’t Always Get What You Want, But If You Try Sometimes... Pastoral leaders love the stories about Moses’ burnout, his frustration with the people, the good advice that he get some help and learn to delegate. Being in partnership with God is a limit experience – meaning, we’re pushed, sometimes, just beyond the edges of our capacity – and this is where God meets us. (And – what would it look like to be one of the “able men among all the people” (v. 21)? Ready for responsibility, waiting to be asked?)

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Exodus: It Would Have Been Enough 7/9

Bread of Heaven. Here is Israel’s experiential learning about God’s economy. It stands in stark contrast to Pharaoh’s economy, where you work your fingers to the bone (what do you get? bony fingers!) and can barely sustain yourself. In God’s gracious economy, there is enough for every day plus more so that rest is built in. This is the “bread of heaven” vs. the “bread of capitalism,” in our context.

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Exodus: It Would Have Been Enough 6/9

Singing Our Lives. A service of song and Dayenu stories to mark our arrival at the point in the Exodus story where the Israelites stop and sing after finally escaping the pursuing Egyptian army.

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Exodus: It Would Have Been Enough 5/9

Loins Girded, Shoes On. The first “Pass-Over” meal calls for the people’s readiness. When God is about to do something, what does it mean for us to be ready, alert, dressed, and available?

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Exodus: It Would Have Been Enough 4/9

A Name, a Plan, a Partnership. God announces GodSelf in the burning bush, and announces an ambitious plan to liberate Israel with Moses as God’s agent. Moses argues. God negotiates. “This is Who I Am,” God says, in word and in (promised) action. And who God is – is in partnership with Moses. Dr. Barber has said, “God will not do what we can do; that is not what God is for.”

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Exodus: It Would Have Been Enough 2/9

Pharaoh Should’ve Feared the Women. He was afraid of the baby boys who would one day be men, because he only knew to fear violence. The six women of the story (midwives, mother, sister, princess, maid) exercise a subversive power and set the stage for God’s redemption.  

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Exodus: It Would Have Been Enough 1/9

The Red Sea Rescue/Catastrophe. We’ll start with the event that is the hinge of the narrative: the drowning of the Egyptian army in the Red Sea. On one side of the sea, the Israelites are fugitive-slaves; on the other side, they are liberated, and learning how to live in freedom. 

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Astounded 9/9

His authority doesn’t look like you think it should.

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Astounded 8/9

Again, with religious law – didn’t we just do that? Why so soon again?

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Astounded 7/9

Jesus gives lots of chances, until he doesn’t.

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Astounded 6/9

Jesus gives lots of chances, until he doesn’t.

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Astounded 5/9

Jesus and religious law.

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Astounded 4/9

Jesus and sinners. 

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