Tag: Compassion
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“Help for the Harrassed”
Theme: Jesus sends us out into the world to build up God’s Kingdom with love, peace and justice for all, despite the threat of arrest and harassment. Matthew 9:35-38; 10:1 (NRSV): Then Jesus went about all the cities and villages, teaching in their synagogues, and proclaiming the good news of the kingdom, and curing every…
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“People’s Court”
Theme: We are called to live our Christian lives in community – Christ tells us how to get along. Matthew 18:15-20 (NRSV): ‘If another member of the church sins against you, go and point out the fault when the two of you are alone. If the member listens to you, you have regained that one.…
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“Power Lunch”
Theme: Love is the lifeblood of God’s Kingdom – it brings abundant blessings, more powerful than anything or anyone, even in times of feeling powerless and undermined by the world around us. Matthew 14:13-21 (NRSV): Now when Jesus heard this, he withdrew from there in a boat to a deserted place by himself. But when…
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“Seeing in the Dark”
Theme: Trusting in God as truth, and Christ as risen, allows belief without seeing, for the evidence comes to us in our Christ-centered living that brings depth of meaning and purpose to our lives. John 20:1-18 (NRSV): Early on the first day of the week, while it was still dark, Mary Magdalene came to the…
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“What Should We Do?”
Theme: Living into God’s promise of salvation as Christians is not completed with our baptism, but rather has just begun there. We are called to live a life of charity and compassion for others, to share forgiveness and love in ways made possible only by the power of the Holy Spirit and the intercession of…
Ellen Clark Clemot 