As we remember in our all Saints Day celebration, the celebration of faithful departed, here is the love we proclaim in faith atthe grave side of our beloved sisters and brothers: the miracle of kinship.Sermon for Trinity Episcopal Church in Midtown, Houston, on All Saints' Sunday 2020.
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Like Moses, we stand at the precipice of tomorrow. We are given opportunity to change - to work beyond our own individual flourishing, for the flourishing of others, for God’s vision. For a history-making God.
This sermon was originally preached for Emmanuel, Houston, on Exodus 3:1-15.
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A sermon about gut reactions, rooted in magical thinking - not so different from worshipping the marketplace gods in Paul’s time.
The truth is, the lesser stories are addictive and never enough.
God answers you and bids you hear, and see - the age of the marketplace gods has come to an end.
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Imagine: exiled in Babylon for 70 years. What does it mean to return? There are multiple generations who only have stories of Israel; there are many ideas and many unknowns. They know they must leave behind them Babylon; change is before them, a new thing.
The new thing that God is doing.
Today, we stand on a precipice; we are looking into a changed world. The new thing must come. I invite you to hear God’s voice in the world around you. Yes, the wilderness is before you; but God is there with you.
Sermon originally delivered to the 2020 Colorado Clergy Conference.
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"Slow Burn" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com)
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