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Speaker: Rev. Yvette Schock

Open Your Eyes

When it feels like the world is unraveling, Jesus hears our fear and uncertainty, and urges: do not be overwhelmed by the darkness, but witness to the light that shines in the darkness. Open your eyes to the suffering, fear, and pain around you, even if it is not your own, and do not turn away. Open your eyes to see God’s will for the world, see that the way things are is not the way things are meant to be, but see also God’s power for healing, still at work in our world.

Accompanying Scripture:
Isaiah 65:17-25
Luke 21:5-19

Image credit: Toni Blay.  License: CC BY 2.0

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Trinity Sunday

“I understand [the trinity] most clearly when I remember the time before it all became official, when it was just people telling about their experiences of God in the best way they knew how… When we affirm god as three in one, we declare that we see god in all of these ways, and we also declare that god is not contained in just one of them. God is all of these things and much more. God is beyond what we can speak, beyond what we can calculate in a math equation.”

Accompanying scripture:
Romans 5:1 – 5
John 16:12 – 15

Message recorded on Sunday May 22, 2016

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Contributor: Túrelio, Retrieved from the Wikimedia Commons.

What does faith look like?

Jacob wrestles all night with a holy presence. He cannot win, but he will not let his opponent go until he gives Jacob his blessing.

A widow brings a case of injustice to the attention of a judge who neither fears God nor respects the people he is supposed to serve. But the widow refuses to let go, and returns to the court day after day seeking justice.

Mother Teresa experienced years of feeling that God was absent from her, yet through those years she continued to pour herself out in love for the poorest and most vulnerable people in Calcutta, India.

In times of anxiety, in the face of injustice, and grief, what does faith look like? What does faith look like in your life?

Accompanying scripture:

Genesis 32: 22-31
Luke 18:1-9

 

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Exiles, refugees, Samaritans and lepers…

God often speaks through people on the margins.
Are we listening?
Do we have eyes to see the Kingdom of God among us?

Accompanying scripture:
Jeremiah 29:1, 4-7
Luke 17:11-19

 


Artist: Niels Larsen Stevns
Helbredelsen af den spedalske (Healing of the Leper)
Source: Wikimedia Commons
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11 am Blended Traditional Worship with Livestream

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