October 21
Sexual Violence and the "Point Vierge," Pr. Eileen Gebbie
2 Samuel 11:1-5, 26-27; 12:1-9
Full text available here.
Sexual Violence and the "Point Vierge," Pr. Eileen Gebbie
2 Samuel 11:1-5, 26-27; 12:1-9
Full text available here.
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September 23
Let God Be With You, Pr. Eileen Gebbie Genesis 39:1-23 Full text available here. "Disciples, let God be with you when you feel completely abandoned by your family and beholden to people who do not respect your humanity. Seekers, let God be with you so that you will not be blinded to your own complicities by self-righteousness and the judgment of others. Doubters, let God be with you so that you have the strength to not only love your neighbor, but even yourself." |
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September 16
Already and Always a Blessing, Pr. Eileen Gebbie Genesis 12:1-9 Full text available here. "Each one of you carry in your person - in your heart, your soul, your solar plexus, your gut, however you feel it - a divine spark ever-ready to catch fire and leap to another, a burning ember which the holy spirit tends and builds up when you need the words, the story, to illuminate God's presence for another." |
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September 9
God in Disasters, Pr. Eileen Gebbie Genesis 6:5-22, 8:6-12, and 9:8-17 Full text available here. "And in these days, these days when all of humanity is deluged by bad behavior, bad ideology, and bad policy, by humanity's old, old will to betray and kill each other. God is still here. We may feel even further from God than ever before, but God is still here offering detailed, cubit by cubit plans on how to stay afloat." |
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August 26
Authority and Worth, Pr. Eileen Gebbie Mark 10:17-31 Full text available here. "We do not need a church to be disciples of Christ, but we do need the accountability for lifelong learning and prayer and discernment about the person, place, and passion of Jesus Christ that a church affords. And in this impoverished world, the faith and the work of a church like ours is worth a great deal." |
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August 19
Light in You, Pr. Eileen Gebbie Full text available here. "Do not listen to those who would shatter your lamp, even if it is your own voice, for in it God has placed a light. For in each of you, in each of us, God has found hope, God has found a home." |
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August 12
Wombs of Women, Pr. Eileen Gebbie Ruth 4 Full text available here. "The tricks of the outcast and ignored, and the uncompromising faith of those with little power, result in dynasties of God's grace. God is not up on high but in the wombs of women like Rachel, Leah, Tamar, Ruth, and Mary, who know they are entitled to more." |
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August 5
Love, Pr. Eileen Gebbie Ruth 3 Full text available here. "In a society as riven by anger, bigotry, and poverty as ours, I can't think of anything that we need more of today than hesed, sacred love, all it demands: to see foreigners as kin; to share our resources without any expectation of return; to make sure our laws work for everyone. For it is no longer one family that needs restoration. It is thousands. It is thousands of millions. It is a whole world." |
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July 8
Listen for Redemption, Pr. Eileen Gebbie 1 John 4:1-6 Delivered at First Christian Church Full text available here. "A Holy Spirit is right now working through a person with no bed to carry the hope we need. A Holy Spirit is right now nurturing a person with no status who will birth the vision we need. A Holy Spirit is right now blasting through this room, giving us the means to ignore those drunk on ego and fear, and to hear those sobered by openness and collaboration." |
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July 1
Servants Between Ashes and Dust, Pr. Eileen Gebbie 1 John 1:5-2:2 Delivered at First Christian Church Full text available here. "It isn't Jesus' death, but his life and his resurrection, that are the mechanisms which might redeem us from sin. It is what he did before and after that ordinary, brutal day that may give us means to stop deceiving ourselves and have fellowship with God and each other." |
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June 24
What We Are Witnessing, Pr. Eileen Gebbie 1 John 1:1-4 Full text available here. "I wonder if in the substantial backlash against the policy and practice of separating families at the border, from all parties and so many people, we are seeing the magi calling Herod out instead of returning home by another route." |
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June 10
Get in the Long Line, Pr. Eileen Gebbie Exodus 20:12-17 Full text available here. "What could Bonhoeffer, Mary, and Moses have in common? Faith enough in the teachings of God, strength enough from God, to liberate slaves and trust women and resist tyranny." |
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June 3
Covenant Hope, Peace, Joy, and Love, Pr. Eileen Gebbie Exodus 20:1-11 Full text available here.
"As sacred as these 10 Commandments, or teachings, are, they are also practical and they also work and they are also all that we have to possibly turn around the anti-hope, anti-peace, anti-joy, and anti-love that we are experiencing on so any fronts right now, that are diligently working to restrict our freedom right now." |
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