Sermons

I want to tell you about the Church we are a part of -- the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ). The General Board is about 150 people who gather once a year from across the denomination to address the business of the Church. And in many ways we were the whole Church in microcosm. We came from across the United States and Canada. We were truly a rainbow people -- black, white, hispanic, asian, female, male, gay, straight, clergy and laity. And the common ground which bound us together in our diversity was our desire to serve God through our service to the Church.
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God is all around us all the time. And most of the time we don’t notice. We find this story played out over and over again in scripture. With very few exceptions, whenever folks encounter the risen Christ they don’t understand what they are experiencing. Mary thought she was meeting the gardener. Sometimes they think it’s a ghost. The disciples on the road to Emmaus saw only a fellow traveler. Most of the time we see what we expect to see and we don’t see what we don’t expect to see. And the sad truth is that much of the time we aren’t really expecting to encounter God in our everyday, ordinary lives. Which makes it ever so much more difficult for God to actually be encountered and experienced.
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Hiding behind closed doors out of fear! From the opening words of this story in John’s Gospel, the disciples have our sympathy and understanding. We know about being afraid. The world in which we live is a scary place.
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