God in Jesus rescues you and me the way search parties go out into the woods or out to sea to find the wayward, lost, or drowning soul who thought she could handle the hike or the currents on her own but got horribly turned around and is dangerously adrift.
Christmas Day service with the Rev. Miranda Cully.
Christmas Eve service with the Rev. Scott Walters.
This is the message from the dream, from the angel of the Lord: that in a treacherous world, we do better to stay together, reaching out and taking someone’s hand for the journey ahead.
To turn completely around and to see oneself as nothing but a stone raised up by God, to see God’s favor not as a birthright but as a gift, one that can transform us and transform our world … to see ourselves like that is to have our lives lit up by grace. And it is to see the grace that is present in and extended by a loving God to every last soul we meet, whether they’ve come to know it, or believe it, or trust it or not.