This Friday was a unique day on the secular calendar. April 22, Earth day, every year since 1970. A day marked around the globe as a day of celebration of, and action in defense of, the Earth and its environment. We don’t usually bring in celebrations from outside the church calendar in worship. One of the reasons for that is that we are trying to live in a counter-cultural story. So we’re trying to get rooted first and foremost in the Way of Jesus as a way of looking at the world. But today I think it’s worth making the connection.
Read MoreOne of the things about following Jesus, and life with the Living God, means that everything about who we are and everything we have done is known. Even the stuff when no one is looking and when nobody finds out. Everything. The light shines everywhere.
Read MoreThe resurrection isn’t an event from the distant past, or a scientific problem to be solved, or a fact to be convinced of in a sermon. It is the continuing, transforming power of God to bring back from death all that was lost – that ever-renewing love at work changing ourselves, our relationships, our communities, and our world. It is Good News. And it’s too good not to be true.
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