You have not come to something that can be touched, a blazing fire, and darkness, and gloom, and a tempest, ...But you have come to Mount Zion and to the city of the living God. The people of Israel lived with a very tangible faith. Early on, God had revealed himself to Moses in a burning bush. Later, he came to his people on Mount Sinai, and he taught them how best to approach him - through a very calculated system of animal sacrifice and purity. Everything could be measured, everything … [Read more...]
The Rev. Karen Isaacs
Freed To Be A Slave
For you were called to freedom, brothers and sisters; only do not use your freedom as an opportunity for self-indulgence, but through love become slaves to one another. “The fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control. Against such things there is no law.” This is arguably one of the best known of Paul’s verses, this list of the fruit of the Spirit found here in the middle of our passage in Galatians this morning. It’s a list … [Read more...]
The Sacred Mystery
Holy God, Three in One, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit: pull us into your sacred mystery today, and fill our hearts with love for you. Amen Today is Trinity Sunday - a Sunday that is set aside in the Church calendar to talk about one of the most challenging and mysterious of all Christian doctrines: the Holy Trinity: God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit. One God in three persons. And with a topic like that, this could be a heavy sermon full of five-syllable theological words … [Read more...]
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