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SERMON SNAPSHOT: Sunday, January 23, 2022
Dear Friends in Christ –
I thought about attempting to be clever with the crummy weather that seems to haunt our weekends of late but didn’t feel like giving it space. It just feels like there is so much conspiring to discourage our getting up and getting out to come to worship - new Sabbath routines (if sleeping in and reading the paper qualifies), fear of exposure to this surging and re-surging pandemic. I’m grateful for our growing online presence and pray the spirit continues to lead and encourage. I just want to see your faces, high five the kids (and you) and share the energy of SCL – Second Church Live!
Our text this week from Luke has been called Jesus’ Inaugural Address. With the Spirit as the Advance Team Jesus has headed to the Jordan River, been baptized, was driven into the wilderness for conditioning, and prior to calling his disciples has healed and preached throughout the region. He comes home at last to Nazareth. His reputation precedes him. Hometown Boy Does Good. He goes to temple. He’s ushered in, allowed the privilege of reading from the sacred scroll. He finishes. Rolls the scroll and all hell breaks loose – you see, he’s come clean, he reveals (an epiphany) who he really is – not just Mary’s son, but the fulfillment of the prophets. His childhood friends and neighbors were neither ready nor receptive.
Do we know, really know who we are? Do we have the courage to live the life for which we were made and to which we’re called? I say, ‘affirmative.' I say, ‘yes!’… and with joy!
In anticipation –
POSTPONED - CONGREGATIONAL MEETING AFTER CHURCH HAS BEEN MOVED TO NEXT SUNDAY
The 10:30 a.m. Worship Service on Sunday, January 30 will be followed by a congregational meeting for the Pastor’s Terms of Call to be offered for approval.