Tag: poetry
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Becoming God’s Home
May 25, 2025John 14:23-29 What if home isn’t a place, but a presence? John invites us to explore Jesus’ promise to make his dwelling within us — not in temples or buildings, but in bodies becoming courtyards of grace. Resurrection, it turns out, isn’t somewhere we go; it’s something that unfolds within time, space, in you and…
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The Paradox of Peace
April 13, 2025Luke 19:28-40 In a time that feels like the opposite of peace, where our news and social media feeds fill us with visions and stories of division, dissonance and devastation, we need the image, the truth and reality of Jesus’ non-triumphal entry more than ever. An entry symbolizing and embodying radical peace that…
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Caught-up in Christ
Feb 9, 2025Luke 5: 1-11 Too often in progressive churches we deny ourselves the feeling of the ecstatic – of what it might mean to follow Christ. Simon Peter shows us how letting ourselves be consumed by Christ’s beauty and abundance has the capacity to change everything.
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Called for the Life of the World
Feb 2, 2025Jeremiah 1:4-10 The misconception about ‘call’ is that it’s for the select few, the saints of our history, the prophets of our past or the preachers at our pulpits. But the fact is, we are all called. We are all born into this time and place with our unique gifts and graces for…
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Beauty will Save the World
Jan 19, 2025John 2:1-11 In a world full of chaos, war, and corruption, God reveals glory through the soft, unexpected, and beautiful—like Mary’s faith and Jesus’ first miracle at Cana. Beauty isn’t just decoration; it transforms hearts, reveals God’s presence, and invites us to participate in a world made new. So open your eyes… seek…
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The Truth of Transfiguration
If only we could wrap glory upkeep it coddled in a crateso that its shine and its shimmeringits light and its glimmeringwill remain intactperfect and cleanpure and pristinelasting forever, an eternal cadaver.But it calls us down the mountaindown into the trenchesmaking home on the plainexposed to elementsthe sun and the rain.Glory is meant to be…
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Waiting in the Wilderness
Leaverun to touch the unknown edge of the soultip-toe on the cliff of its waterfallbuy its one-way ticket somewhere farwhere the comforts and constrictionsof this weary, western fictioncrumble awayfrom the drudge of daily-doingsto dancing in the grey. Let her wander deep into the wildernessfollowing its inner purposehearing its wild wingshovering in the in-betweenof what’s invisible…
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Reorienting the Reign of Christ
Mysterious, mighty and meek God, You turn rulers and realms on their headYou turn a crown of jewels into the crown of thornsYou reveal the thrown of glory by giving over your seat to wash disciples’ feet As we gather ourselves in this spaceand orient ourselves to your upside down kingdomworshiping the king who became…
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Liberation’s Way
Angel of YHWHYou are the pillar of cloudthat lights up the nightone with the darknessand one with our fright. Lead us awayfrom powers and politicsthat subdue and persuadeand guide us on dry landthe path to your freedomby Moses’ hand. Form a wall of gracefor the downcast and displaced:those we turn our backs towardsand those we…
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the Politics of Passover
God of politicsyou come to those downcast and dismissedenslaved and weighed down in mortar and bricksbringing food and freedom:a pathway to your kingdom. May we learn how to eatwith loins girded, sandals on feetstaff in hand, on the edge of our seat,waiting and watchingas you break the chainsof the oppressive reignsand the systems sustainedon the…
by Rev Alisha 