Labor
This weekend we honor laborers. Those whose efforts produce fruit that benefit us all. Seems like a good time also to define labor for those who follow Jesus.
Response
Moses is raised in the house that slave labor built only to return as an adult to tear the whole system down. Empire can’t build anything that can withstand love’s eventual tear down.
Unideal
The Bible treats us to a story of a woman with faith-agency. Faith-agency is the perfect balance between weekend praying and weekday doing.
Family
Next time someone asks you how’s your family doing, don’t say, fine. Say, …ripe for reversal!
Witnesses
God is still looking for flesh and blood witnesses in the real world. When last did you see God move? When last did you hear from God?
Kingdom
When we find God’s kingdom in small things, we are like the merchant finding a small pearl of great value, filled with joy and satisfaction as our search for God’s work progresses.
Climbing Higher
In this current climate when our “freedom” is so tested, the spiritual and Biblical passage remind us of God’s faithfulness to our freedom now and future generations.
Void
Are we speaking words of life? Are our words helping bring us closer the kingdom? Speak God’s words of life today to self and others. They don’t return empty.
Divine Diversity
Catching up to divine diversity might mean a change in tone; celebrating instead of condemning, listening instead of talking, noticing instead of turning away.
Free
If a God is disclosed who is free to come and go, the freedom God will surface in the brickyards and manifest itself as justice and compassion.