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Seek the good, then seek the better
Maybe we should notice, then learn. Maybe we should see, then seek the good, seek the better.
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Do we really listen to God’s word?
In a way, God and God’s work make it happen; in reality, don’t we do it because we don’t really listen to that word?
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God’s ‘place’ is within us. Let us be sure to put out the welcome mat
He wants to dwell in our hearts, souls, minds, and lives.
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This Gospel is a plea on our behalf to seek out the good, a response that will bring life
Today, let us put an end to hardness of heart and seek to open our hearts to compassion and love.
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God’s covenantal love that he has made with us is eternal, will never break
In answer to the tortuous complaints, criticisms and judgement of the Pharisees, Jesus the Christ puts it all into context again — covenantal love.
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Like MLK, do we answer God’s call to transform the world?
Lord, we apologize for those who never heard him, who were mired in their ugly and sinful past and refused to go forward to a better future, who participated in and perfected the art of hatred and racism, who were capable of and actually committed murder actually or complicity.
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Do we appreciate the life that the Christ has won for us?
As we begin, on this second day of 2021, there has never been a more urgent need for followers of the Christ — the Holy One — to know who we are and why we are fellow disciples of the Lord.
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To be in relationship with God means giving all to him
To be in relationship with Caesar involves giving him certain things. To be in relationship with God means giving all to him, since all comes from him and belongs to him and shall return to him!
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God is ‘in it’ for the long run — without conditions, without limits
If indeed humans have existed on this planet for 160,000 years, God definitely has “hung around” with us, put up with a lot, loved us in spite of ourselves, and continues to grace and gift us without conditions and without limits.
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