Tag: salvation
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The ‘Good’ in Good Friday
May 11, 2025Revelation 7:9-17 As a people and a culture, we’re often more at ease with Good Friday than Easter Sunday — so much so that we’ve forgotten what’s good about it in the first place: the resurrection. An event Western Christianity has spent so much energy trying to prove that it’s forgotten its true power —…
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Offensive Love
March 30, 2025Luke 15:1-3, 11b-32 A story we’ve probably heard too many times to count: the story of the Prodigal Son. And yet, have you ever noticed how the story doesn’t end? How we’re left on the edge of our seats wondering what the older brother will do? Ultimately the story of the Prodigal Son…
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The Liberation of Letting Go
March 9, 2025Luke 4:1-13 In the season of Lent we are invited to let go, to enter a kind of mini-death in order to embody and become true vessels of liberation. It’s the paradox of the cross we get to explore for 40 days and 40 nights, of entering the dark night of the soul,…
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in something small
Salvation is not triumphant.Sometimes it is as subtle as the cleaners,the cooksand the kind people who take away our garbage. Sometimes it is as silent as a good night’s sleep,the gardener down the street,the podiatrist who cleans all kinds of feet. Sometimes it is as still as a windless day,a rock buried within clay,having nothing…
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As She Carries Me
I have spent the last 10 years deconstructing a God as separate from our beings, a God who lives somewhere above the clouds and God as Father. But it seems that the first 20 years of conservative Christian formation is much stronger than I had anticipated. It takes quite a lot of awareness and intentional…
by Rev Alisha 