SERMON SNAPSHOT: Sunday, June 6, 2021

Dear Friends in Christ –

The 6AM Friday Men’s Group has been fortunate; the books we’ve chosen to engage have sparked some of the best conversations. I’m a fan of the small group model where you come to trust each other, you can express your doubts and disagreements and share in revelations. We’re engaging a book by Rabbi Harold Kushner who wrote Why Bad Things Happen to Good People. The book we’re studying is Nine Essential Things I’ve Learned About Life. Rabbi Kushner describes encountering similar challenges as we who follow Christ do. He speaks of congregants who have found that "religion as it's been presented to them throughout their lives is unworthy of either their intellectual respect or their emotional attachment." He has covenanted with them to show them, “not how old and time-tested their religion is, but how true belief can answer their most most profound questions about relationship, about life’s unfairness, about right and wrong, about revenge and forgiveness and about the meaning and purpose of their lives.”

I believe we face the same challenges as we seek to follow the Christ. Jesus was steeped in the First Testament. For four weeks we will engage the teachings that Jesus knew, believed and taught through the lens of love.

In anticipation –