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SERMON HIGHLIGHTS: Imagining God’s will is hard and sometimes we disagree on what God wants from us. When we do disagree, we need to talk together to resolve our differences. God prioritizes relationships over punishment for getting it wrong.

SERMON HIGHLIGHTS: Jesus was approached by a Canaanite woman, a woman on the margins. Jesus loved the woman and listened to her plea. In the act of loving and listening Jesus was changed. We are changed when we love and listen.

SERMON HIGHLIGHTS: Fear and self-interest mires us in an attitude of scarcity. Faith encourages us to have an attitude of abundance. God encourages us to care for people’s needs, faithfully relying on God to bring this kingdom work to completion.

SERMON HIGHLIGHTS: How do you imagine the kingdom of heaven? It’s a mystery, but God asks us to partner in making the kingdom come. We work with God as we imagine and experiment ways to reconcile creation – to make the world fairer, to feed the hungry, to house the homeless. It is our job to name, live out, and promote the characteristics of the kingdom of heaven.

SERMON HIGHLIGHTS: The Parable of the Weeds and the Wheat tells us God will judge in the end. While we find some consolation in purifying the church, that’s not our job. Right now we are called to practice hospitality and loving care to build the harvest.

SERMON HIGHLIGHTS: A birthright is an inheritance and our inheritance as believers is hope, hope in God’s promise, God’s character, and God’s plan. Our responsibility is to use our hope to offer light and life to a world that is dark and desperate.

SERMON HIGHLIGHTS: God promised Abram that God would be present and, through Abram, bless all of creation. We hold fast to that promise going through life that is full of challenges and difficulties. No one knows what lies ahead, but it is the promise of God’s blessing and presence that enables us to carry on.

SERMON HIGHLIGHTS: This week we heard Matthew’s description of Jesus’ last words. “Go and make disciples”. Even though a lot of us don’t think our faith is strong enough, Jesus sends us anyway. God delights in our questions about our faith. Searching for meaning as we go out into the world strengthens our faith.

SERMON HIGHLIGHTS: Jesus came to bring life, life worth living. Jesus invites us to follow him to abundant life. Following Jesus means rejecting to world’s values in favor of the love and mercy that Jesus lived.

SERMON HIGHLIGHTS: We read the story of Doubting Thoms from John’s gospel and considered that it is out of doubts and questions that the greatest faith emerges. We all have doubts, but God sends us into the world to do God’s work of loving, caring, and changing the world.