SERMON SNAPSHOT: Sunday, May 22, 2022

Dear Friends in Christ –

These last few weeks we’ve engaged stories punctuated with visions and trances. Saul, Ananias, Cornelius, Peter – the gamut of folks in an early church narrative who are directed by the voice of God to do extraordinary things. Of them all, I think Peter’s vision was the most bizarre. A blanket descending with animals forbidden to be eaten by observant Jews, and a voice saying, “Get up! Kill and eat!” Peter protested, "Ain’t nothing non Kosher passed these lips!" The voice of God says, "What God has made clean, you must not call profane." Enough said!

This Sunday we reach back to the ‘farewell discourse’ where Jesus makes the most of his last chance with them, his last hours with them. He uses every moment in every way to imprint on them his love, his method, his humility. He tells them the one thing above all others that they must know and practice for life without him. He says, “Keep my word.” What does that mean? It may sound simple, but it isn’t easy.

Let’s look at this together this Sunday as we baptize Margaret Craw, welcome Alex Treyz (update: postponed due to illness) into membership and point to Jesus –

In great anticipation,

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