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Our highest hope is embodied in Jesus’s prayer: ‘Your Kingdom come; Your will be done on earth as it is in heaven.’ These words remind us that God’s Kingdom is not a distant future but present reality, calling us into discipleship.
As Luke Timothy Johnson writes, the Church is to be ‘a sacrament of the world’s possibility. A sign of what the world can be.’ We aspire to fulfill this by loving radically, inclusively, and generously—embracing all regardless of age, race, gender, orientation, ethnicity, marital status, or disability.
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It often seems like we live in a joyless society. Even in the church, Joy often seems to be in short supply. Why is this and what is the way forward? And, most importantly, what does this have to do with Taylor Swift?
We think we’re fluent in love — we’ve been studying it in every movie and love song our whole lives. But in Part 4 of our Galatians series, we see that the love Paul lists first isn’t the love that comes easy. It’s agape: love aimed at the people outside our circle, the ones who can't pay us back.
In our last week of background sermons before delving into the individual “fruits” of the spirit, we ask the question, “Why fruit?” Why, with the world of metaphors at his fingertips, did Paul use Fruit as his chosen image for the spiritual life?
What if true freedom isn't about escaping obligations, but leaning into them? In Two Soils (part two of our series), we look at ancient purity codes, Pixar’s Monsters, Inc., and why a freedom that isolates you isn't freedom at all.
This Sunday we begin a new series on the fruit of the spirit. But before we discuss the fruit, we need to discuss the letter that Paul wrote them in. What is the letter to the Galatians about? And what does it have to say to us today?
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