MEDITATION
"DEVOTION"

GOOD
NEWS

THE whole chebang IN A NUTSHELL

"‘Love the Lord your 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.”

JESUS the CHRIST

A Life Well Lived
- discovering it's all interconnected -

During the epic inter-generational story that leads to Jesus, we observe The Satan using ripped scriptures to trip and trap The Christ, to thwart a magnificent rescue, to kerfuffle the cause of a lit movement. The Christ was neither fooled nor felled. Here we are.

It is in the DNA of The Satan to be entrenched thus: to bring chaos (tragedy and trauma, suffering and pain; disorder) into lives preferring to be well-lived.

Perhaps one may discover along one's journey that The Satan re-tools what is meant for wisdom into weapons of destitution and disharmony, skillfully pitching law as love, hate as hope, partisanship as purity, greed as security, and much labor for the weary, trading compasion for compliance, underscoring in that trumble a grave reminder, one gets what one deserves, (a ripped scripture quite familiar), then "putting" it all on God! Oh, no-no-no!

Does God (who knows all things) have a reversal plan? If so, what is God's plan? What is the true nature of good order in this new creation? What does the Spirit say to each who ploughs the way? Shall these not find in the unfolding beauty for ashes? Let's discover the richness and wonder of fostering and nurturing right relationships and its contribution to a well-lived life - it's a bold new vision! Shall we? (This is awesome.)

EXPLORE: Sermon on The Mount (the series)

"Encourage one another. Build one another up."

Awesome

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."

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.

Joshua Dubois
PRAYERS

"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."

- John Lewis

EACH DAY an OPPORTUNITY to LEARN

(beyond religiosity, beyond judgment, beyond pretense)

WHAT'S NEW IN YOUR WORLD?

Isn't it Good to Grow as YOU GO?