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“God also dwells in deep darkness. God comes to people in dark clouds, dark nights, dark dreams, in ways that sometimes scare them half to death, but almost always end for their good, or at least their renovation. God does some of God’s best work in the dark.”
Psalm 19
John 2: 13-22
Duration: about 21 minutes
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“We have bought into the Myth of Redemptive Violence. We have been brought up to believe that if someone does something wrong, violent or unjust to us, we can make it right, we can redeem the whole situation by doing something wrong, violent or unjust back to them.”
Psalm 22: 23-31
Mark 8: 27-38
Duration: about 25 minutes
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“We have trouble standing still in the face of the holy and the inexplicable. But, here’s the thing about life with God: the more we know, the less we know for sure. The more God reveals God’s self to us, the less certainty we have."
Mark 9: 2-9
Duration: about 18 minutes
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“We belong to ourselves, our identity rooted and grounded in God’s love. We belong to each other on the journey and mission of life.”
Isaiah 40: 21-31
Mark 1: 29-39
Duration: about 22 minutes
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“Jesus, and John the Baptizer before him, were inviting people to release their old way of thinking about the relationship between God and humanity and believe in, put their trust in, something new: the nearness of the Realm of God and their belonging to it.”
Mark 1: 14-28
Duration: about 18 minutes
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“… I wonder if we get ourselves in situations where there are people we cannot love, and so we assume that God cannot either.”
Jonah 3: 1-10
Mark 1: 14-20
Duration: about 20 minutes
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“God knows who we are, and God comes to us to empower us to live a fully human, fully free, fully loving life.”
1 Samuel 3: 1-10
John 1: 43-51
Duration: about 20 minutes
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