As M Barclay puts it: “This chapter talks about night and day and land and water, but we have dusk and we have marshes. These verses don’t mean ‘there’s only land and water, and there’s nowhere where these two meet.’ These binaries aren’t meant to speak to all of reality—they invite us into thinking about […]
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Resurrection: The Room
We, too, still often expect change from the top-down. We look for redemption with the lens of empire clouding our view. It can keep us, from recognizing Christ among us, around us, or within us. It is not until these two are practicing the very things they learned from Jesus that they are able to […]
Opening The Door To Happiness
So reach out and welcome one another to God’s glory. Jesus did it; now you do it! Jesus, staying true to God’s purposes, reached out in a special way to the Jewish insiders so that the old ancestral promises would come true for them. As a result, the non-Jewish outsiders have been able to experience […]
Untamed: Build And Burn
Reverend Joseph San Jose was given the opportunity to preach virtually at Resurrection MCC’s online worship service last September 27, 2020. The preaching is under their “Untamed” worship series, and Pastor Joseph preached about what it means to build and burn. Pastor Joseph previously visited Resurrection MCC physically in Houston, Texas, during his internship for […]
Embracing A God Of Light And Dark
Jesus was led by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil. After fasting for forty days and forty nights, Jesus was famished. Then tempter approached and said, “If you are the Chosen One of God, command these stones to become loaves of bread.” But Jesus answered, “It is written: ‘One does […]