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“To live in faith requires a radical centering of our lives in God; and when we center our lives there, our trust naturally deepens; and when our trust deepens it transforms the way we are able to see ourselves, our lives and the world.”
2 Timothy 1: 1-14
Luke 17: 1-10
Duration: about 19 minutes
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“Last fall, Cindy and I took an incredible trip to South Africa… Later in December, we took another vacation to Charleston, South Carolina… At some point this past year I mentioned to Jeannie that we had visited both places; South Africa with its history of racism, apartheid, and the ugly history of the ruling white minority; and Charleston where the first shots of the Civil War were fired at Fort Sumpter, and slavery was alive in our country, front and center. The comparison between the two countries and their history of racism were very obvious and apparent.”
Genesis 1: 26-31
Matthew 22: 34-40
Duration: about 33 minutes
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"God hems us in on every side, so that no matter where we go or where we stay, the God who knows who we are is with us. The one who knows exactly how we were formed and all our possibilities, all our quirks, and our particular beauty, does not leave us."
Luke 13: 10-17
Isaiah 58: 9b-14
Duration: about 20 minutes
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"God hems us in on every side, so that no matter where we go or where we stay, the God who knows who we are is with us. The one who knows exactly how we were formed and all our possibilities, all our quirks, and our particular beauty, does not leave us."
Jeremiah 18: 1-11
Psalm 139: 1-6, 13-18
Duration: about 15 minutes
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“It’s hard to know, hard to see, the unwelcome that some people feel and are experiencing all around us, all the time. It’s hard to see what we ourselves are not experiencing. Most of the time we don’t even notice that we are swimming in a sea of privilege, set up for us by a culture and a political system that we didn’t create… The most obvious, ubiquitous, important realities are often the ones that are hardest to see, much less talk about.”
Hebrews 13: 1-8, 15-16
Luke 14: 1, 7-14
Duration: about 16 minutes
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“Clearly, we too need stories of the great cloud of witnesses to keep our heads up and our eyes on Jesus. One of the things I believe we are called to do as church is to offer ourselves to each other, to share and witness to each other’s lives in both joy and suffering, to encourage each other when we are discouraged, to sit with each other in distress, to rejoice with each other in every joy, to create safe space so that everyone is always welcome.”
Hebrews 11:29 - 12:2
Duration: about 14 minutes
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“In every moment, God is mending what is from the depths of what is. Tragic or magic, momentous or mundane, every moment is a choice to join in harmony or sit idlily by. Be ready. The light of the lamp of your heart lit enlightens the world and guides us in this darkness.”
Luke 12: 32-40
Duration: about 24 minutes
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