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Thanksgiving 2024

Thanksgiving 2024

To give thanks to God is a sublime act. It is a defiant lifestyle. A thankful life demonstrates that we understand the balance of our agency and our interdependence- our strength and our vulnerability.

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The King is Here!

The King is Here!

We are tragically driven by fear, but fear in no way motivates His perspective or actions. “So you are a King?” Pilate asked Jesus. We say Yes! He is our King!

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Power

Power

To be a witness is the power to increase the celebrity of Jesus by doing what Jesus did wherever you are. But not only that, it’s power to trust God. It’s power to share your story as a medicine for someone else’s malady.

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Witness

Witness

To be a witness is the perfect adaptive approach to the most pernicious problems we face as a species. To be a witness is the radical democratization of leadership delivered through your personal and authentic experience of Jesus in your life.

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Not Far

Not Far

As Dorothy Day has said, “I really only love God as much as I love the person I love the least.” The gap Jesus was identifying that day is our ability to say we love God while hating or being indifferent to those God loves.

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Need

Need

Jesus was not a Christian! And, many he encountered and blessed were not observant Jews. Still Jesus knows faith when he sees and hears it.

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Whirlwind

Whirlwind

Though our suffering shakes us to our core, the answer out of the “whirlwind” of our circumstances is that God is Almighty! And, just because our suffering is not relieved on our timetable does not mean God is lacking in power.

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Right?

Right?

“Good” was not Jesus’ goal for his life and neither should it be ours! It is possible to do public wonders for private impure reasons. But far better to let private devotion make public wonders.

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Recenter

Recenter

Jesus centers God’s purpose and hopes for marriage from the beginning of our species. He recenters the radical nature of marriage, the “one flesh-ness” of it.

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Influence

Influence

What continues to make the difference in structures as big as governments and as small as relationships are those people who have been influenced by Jesus and in response influence others for the good of all.

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