Pentecost (61)
  1. On the Last Sunday of the Church Year, the Church remembers her Lord who is risen from the dead but rules from a cross.
  2. The pattern will continue until Christ returns. God tears down in order to plant and bring about new life.
  3. Jesus comes to us from eternity with His Father and He walks among us as one who remembers that home. This life is not the end.
  4. He tries to open their eyes to see that the Sabbath is a time for saving life, not seeking to destroy it, for experiencing the love of God, not for practicing hatred.
  5. He is not a teacher who answers all sorts of speculative questions. He is your Savior, who answers the one question which matters the most for you: “How will you be saved?”
  6. Jesus is preparing us for a baptism by fire that will shatter our expectations.
  7. God will not be boxed in by our worries and He will not let our self-understanding be limited to our needs. Jesus knows there is more to God and more to us than what we are worried about.
  8. When people have idols, God ends up becoming the power they turn to to keep their idol going.
  9. Jesus is not asking us to figure out when He will return. Jesus is asking us to live everyday in the certainty that He will return.
  10. Life will not be easy. Conflicts will occur. But God remains in power, and He rules over all.
  11. If you have ever felt like you are standing on the outside looking in, like you do not belong in a beautiful church with its beautiful people, then listen to Jesus, because Jesus has a word for you.
  12. The presence of traditions is not the problem. It is the way in which we experience them. And on this day, Jesus reminds us of His presence, so all of us experience His grace.
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