What's Been Saving Your Life? VI: The Practice of Walking on the Earth: Groundedness

Eastertide

May 12, 2024 • Katie Snipes Lancaster • Exodus 3:1–12

This message might have just as easily been received elsewhere. Maybe Moses didn’t have to go into the wilderness to hear, to see, to take off his shoes, and receive what was holy. Maybe he didn’t have to go beyond the mountains with a herd of sheep, into a wilderness beyond the wilderness in order to meet God.

This is the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. This is the one who numbered the stars. The one who ordered the planets. The one spoke the words “let there be light” and there was light. This is not a God of the margins, but of the center, a God about whom this whole story is written.

But Moses isn’t paying attention. And it takes a burning bush to turn him toward God.

God After... II: God After Copernicus

June 9, 2024 • Christine V. Hides • Psalm 8

God After... II: God After Gutenberg

June 2, 2024 • William A. Evertsberg • Romans 10:13–17, Mark 14:22–25

God After...I: The God Who Is and Who Was and Who Is to Come

May 26, 2024 • William A. Evertsberg • Genesis 1:1–5, Revelation 1:8

It’s Trinity Sunday. It’s not as theatrical as other church holidays—like the fire, wind and ruddy paraments of last week’s Pentecost, for example. It’s the only festival of the Church Year that is devoted to a doctrine, rather than to a person or an event, like Christmas or Easter. But once a year, the Christian Church pauses for a day to remind itself about the nature of our God. And what it says is that God is Three.