SERMON SNAPSHOT: Sunday, September 27, 2020

Dear Friends in Christ –

2020 has been quite a year! Pandemics and primaries. Fires and floods. Cut to the first century. The Apostle Paul takes stock and the picture isn’t pretty – things are off, so out of kilter it seems the cosmos groans. God’s creatures groan as if the whole of creation is giving birth - and it is! A new world, a new life is coming. But as we live in the meantime, the not yet, we reside in hope. Hope that the current scourges of disease, disruption and disinformation are not the last words.

Paul says we wait in patience. We wait in perseverance, keepin’ on keepin’ on because we are those who live with the promise that as heirs with Christ, suffering when we must as did our Jesus. We are afforded full, non-conditional, non-reversible inclusion, adoption as God’s own.

In these times, ravaged by nature’s savagery, our hubris, and our frustrations, we worship. We look to Jesus God. The God who ‘creates the world out of overflowing self-giving love.’ And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose.

You’ve heard, ‘What you see is what you get'? Nope – God ain’t through with us yet!

See you Sunday for Online Church –