Posts from May 2021

Posts from May 2021

Being Born Again

Being “born again” is language that most of us are probably familiar with but many of us may not have adopted or used.  What was Jesus talking about in being born again?  How might that be meaningful for our lives as Christians who continue to seek to follow in Jesus’ way and live lives of faith, love and service in the world? 

Beach Breeze – June 2021

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The Language of God Is Multi-Ethnic

This Sunday is Pentecost Sunday, a day that is recognized as the birthday of the church. This day typically gets overshadowed by other significant religious holidays, like Christmas and Easter, but today is a celebration nonetheless. In this week’s scripture reading on Acts 2: 1-21, God sends the Holy Spirit through Jesus gifting the disciples and everyone around a baptism through the Spirit.  God breaks the binary, otherness, in which language, nationality, gender, sexuality, race, culture, ability no longer holds us back from understanding one another,  and unites us so that we can be one in the Holy Spirit. This is the birth of a new church. A celebration in oneness.

Next Steps

On Sunday, we’ll spend time with the second account of the ascension from Acts, reflecting on that head scratcher of a question asked by the “two guys in white” who appear after Jesus is taken up:  “Why do you stand looking up to heaven?” 

A Commandment to Love?

In our reading for this Sunday, Jesus continues with that language and presses this point, the life-giving connection between him and his disciples, as he prepares them for his upcoming departure.  It’s as if he’s saying, “Even though I won’t be here in person, our connection is real and will be more profound and necessary than ever.”  And then, as one often does when giving last minute instructions, he circles back to something important and something he’s said before, “Love one another as I have loved you.”