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Monday Mar 04, 2019
Transfiguration Sunday -- Jesus Revealed in our Valleys
Monday Mar 04, 2019
Monday Mar 04, 2019
The Transfiguration Text from Luke. I felt a number of weeks ago that focusing on the valley experience was where the Holy Spirit was carrying me (us?). There is a good bit of pain at this church over the recent General Conference. I have tried the last several weeks to minimize direct discussion of General Conference, and focus more on implied elements. This day, I felt a direct discussion was in order. All I can tell anyone is that I agonized over what to say, and this is what God provided me.
This is from 9:00 AM. I may also do the 10:30 service, which was a little longer.
Thursday Jan 25, 2018
Unafraid -- Fear of the Other
Thursday Jan 25, 2018
Thursday Jan 25, 2018
This was a look at Fear of the Other. Connect with each other. Quite a bit of reference back to the music we sang this day. The reprise I used was a little play off an acronym of FEAR -- Face Everything and Rise with some words from Dr. King on moving from fear to knowing and meeting.
Question is "how often do we let our fear of the stranger drive us to not connect."
Some continuation of the previous week's theme of connectedness, but here the connectedness is getting past the dikes that hold us in our own flood of fear of the other. Dikes of courage (among other things) are needed (a quote i thought about using, but didn't.)
I am currently listening to Isaac Asimov Robots of Dawn and wonder how much of this might be helpful ... if you are not familiar with the book, do not worry. If you are, the conversation Daneel and Elijah in Chapter 2 is what I am thinking. Elijah has to see Robots differently on Aurora than on Earth. On Earth, they are an object of scorn and subservience. On Aurora (a fictitious planet) they are near equals, if not precisely equals. Elijah has to be taught this, as it does not come naturaly to him. Yes?
Quotes from Dr. King:
"People fail to get along because they fear each other; they fear each other because they don't know each other; they don't know each other because they have not communicated with each other."
"We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear."
― Martin Luther King Jr.
Thursday Jan 25, 2018
Unafraid - We Need Community
Thursday Jan 25, 2018
Thursday Jan 25, 2018
Question is "what keeps you from getting connected with others?"
But two prong: we ourselves must open ourselves up to others but others must also look at us and be willing to attempt to connect with us. Not an either/or but both/and.
Music focusing on community (invite the stranger) but also recognizing the need for solitude. Mixed. A balance. Not exclusively hang out with others all day/every day. We need to be together, in fact, we are made to be in community but on the other hand, it is natural, and biblical to seek moments alone.