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SERMON SNAPSHOT: Sunday, June 13, 2021
“Human beings are the only creatures blessed, or burdened, with a conscience, awareness that there are some things we simply should not do.”
- Rabbi Harold Kushner
Dear Friends in Christ –
In his book Nine Essential Things I’ve Learned About Life, Rabbi Harold Kushner covers a lot – he draws on eighty years of living as husband, father, rabbi, public figure. And as I read I unintentionally default to a position that the Jews are people of the law and Christ followers are people of love. I shake my head and see that I’m shown, in Kushner’s prose, that I do us both a disservice. He relates life events to Old Testament stories that convey universal truths – truths that are foundational to our faith through the New Testament. His scholarship is exhaustive. It sometimes leads to different, nuanced understanding of familiar texts. Can it be that Eve is the heroine of Eden?
Next Sunday on Father’s Day we look at the chapter, "God is Not a Man Who Lives in the Sky" and on June 27, "Give God the Benefit of a Doubt."
As we allow ourselves to savor handshakes and hugs, let’s renew our faith, and welcome new members this Sunday.
In anticipation –
