SERMON SNAPSHOT: Sunday, March 15, 2020

Dear Friends in Christ – 

We are looking at a world that seems to be in need of adjustment.  We looked together at some of the issues, some of the toxins that may sap our spirits, and corrode our capacity for joy, thereby robbing us of our inheritance as children of God. 

In Lent we’re taking the opportunity, the sanctioned opportunity to focus on ourselves, not to the point of self absorption, but so that we may identify those things which block us from the transforming love of God. 

Jesus said, “Peace I leave with you; my peace I give you. I do not give to you as the world gives. Do not let your hearts be troubled and do not be afraid.”

Folks, Jesus is calling us to use this these times to follow him into the desert, into the thin places and to listen deeply for what he has to say to me and to you. To be willing to engage those wild beasts – fear,  dread, stress, anxiety – and know that in God’s care nothing will be destroyed that is worth keeping.  

“Let not your hearts be troubled.” But wash your hands!