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From Believing to Conviction - April 21, 2019
John 20:1-18 The disciples come to Sunday morning wrecked and rung out. Imagine the roller coaster week they’ve had:
Parades and people
Palm fronds and cloaks
A donkey
It's Not About What's Fair- April 7, 2019
Matthew 20:1-16
This might actually be one of my favorite parables because it challenges our notions of “fair” with God’s notions of abundant grace and generosity. We want the workers to be paid according to their hours—what’s fair. But they aren’t. I assume most of us can easily identify with the early workers—felling slighted for their work when the others who worked less get paid the same.
And really, a simple flip in the story could have changed the emotional charge. What if, at the end of the day the homeowner had called all the worker and started with the early birds. He could have paid them their contracted
The Small Things - March 31, 2019
Matthew 25:14-30 In the gospel of Matthew, we find a master with incredible wealth. As he gets ready to leave he has nearly a decade cash on hand to entrust to his servants. Which, likely, means he has a whole lot more for himself. After all, who would trust ALL their wealth in the hands of someone else? One man receives 5, another 2, and another 1, which, doesn’t sound like much. A talent seems more like an ability than money. But even if it were a translation for dollars, 5, 2, and 1 don’t amount to much. But what if we consider it’s equivalent in 2019—something more like $50,000—a year’s wages for just 1 talent. Does that change the picture at all? What if
Not Him! - March 24, 2019
Acts 9:22-30 A couple of weeks ago, we heard the early part of Saul’s story. He was a Pharisee dead-set on stopping all the Christ-followers. He was willing to settle for imprisonment but really would have rathered death—just to be sure they were really out of the picture. But then he had this profound experience with Jesus and he does a complete 180 and a few days later he shows up in the temple preaching all about Jesus.
And, as he gets rolling in his preaching he incites the Jews he was just a part of. So now he’s the one who has to hide out and get away. So he escapes from Damascus to Jerusalem. In Jerusalem he seeks out the disciples, only they don’t want anything to
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