The GOOD News:For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world but to save the world through him. THAT'S IT IN A NUTSHELL.
THE whole chebang IN A NUTSHELL
"‘Love the Lordyour God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.' This is the first and greatest commandment.And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments.”
"Humans can look at the world, see what's out there, imagine something wholly new, and try to make it a reality." Agustin Fuentes
Isn't that awesome?!! Oooh-wee-wee! Potentiality Magnifico!
Oh, the life! Gorgeously Innovative!
However when humans assume the audacity to redefine for itself good and evil, oh, what a tangled mess is weaved!
In wake of that horror, divine grace offers a restorative solution with wisdom revealed in a radical vision: new creation. God's love turned death into life and scarcity into abundance. "For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though he was rich, yet for your sake he became poor, so that you through his poverty might become rich." It's a uniquely different lifestyle.
Done right by God. Doing right by each other.
Action: engaged hearts beam light.
"I have loved you with an everlasting love."
Learnings from the everydayness of authentic life-choices (creating resourceful communities) . . .
being, building, inspiring, igniting.
The Walk
Nicolette Sowder
"Give me the wild children with their bare feet and sparkling eyes. The restless, churning climbers. The wild ones using their outside voices, singing all the way home. Give me the wonder-filled, glorious mess makers dreaming of mountains and mud, aching to run through a field of stars."
FAVORITE QUOTE OF THE WEEK
Tao Te Ching
(Humility, Harmony, Openness)
The supreme goodness is like water.
It benefits all things without contention.
In dwelling, it stays grounded. In being, it flows to depths. In expression, it is honest. In confrontation, it stays gentle. In governance it does not control. In action, it aligns to timing.
It is content with its nature, and therefore cannot be faulted.
"Live without pretending. Love without depending. Listen without defending. Speak without offending."
Isaiah, the Prophet
"Rise up, shine, because your light has come. The glory of Yahweh has risen upon you. Look, darkness has covered the land. Deep darkness covers the people. But Yahweh will rise upon you. His glory will appear over you, and nations will come to your light."
Bishop Gene Robinson
"It's funny isn't it? That you can preach a judgmental and vengeful and angry God and nobody will mind. But you start preaching a God that is too accepting, too loving, too forgiving, too merciful, too kind . . . and you are in trouble."
Desmond Tutu
"You may be surprised at the people we find in heaven. God has a soft spot for sinners. His standards are quite low.."
Salt of The Soil
SAND is not SALT
Be who YOU are! If you don't like what you are, TRANSFORM
Do what it takes! If you don't like where you're headed, TURN
The BEST you is you. Be you! Don't lose your salt.
Dear God, grant me victory today over all that assails. Help me square up to even the greatest challenges and claim authority over them, unafraid. Amen.
"Learn to find joy in the story you are actually living." Rachel Marie Martin
"It was not enough to come and listen to a great sermon or message every Sunday morning and be confined to those four walls and those four corners. You had to get out and do something."
Good News Quotes from Inside The Chapel are featured presentations consisting primarily of published quotes highlighted with the intention of a) underlining an aspect of Good News in a Nutshell, b) uplifting, and c) sharing in alignment with our mission.
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