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Practice ResurrectionOn Easter we asked about Resurrection, "What IS it?" and "What do we DO with it?" We settled, with Wendell Berry and Eugene Peterson on this for the 2nd question: Resurrection is something we PRACTICE. It's a new reality we deliberately, over time, live into. So during the 50-day season of Eastertide, we're going to try to Practice Resurrection.
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May 26, 2024 -- "Life in Community"
"The purpose of Advent, Christmas, Epiphany, Lent, Easter, Pentecost is to attune us to the patterns of Life in Community, Holy Trinity, life with God…so that we can participate in the life and work of the Community in the world in our lives, our ordinary lives. 'Ordinary Time' is where WE live out the Story."
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May 19, 2024 -- "The Spirit of Resurrection"
"Holy Spirit makes present the Aliveness of Jesus, infuses us with Resurrection, and is the energy and trajectory of our Practice of Resurrection. It is the Spirit who makes the ordinary holy."
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May 12, 2024-- "Resurrection, IN Practice"
"Maybe a more clear way of saying 'Practice Resurrection' is that we are living out the Aliveness of Jesus: the aliveness of someone who loved authentically and freely to death, and God said, “That’s it. That’s the kind of life that death has no power over"; the aliveness of someone who has faced and experienced death and knows that it does not have the final say; the aliveness of someone who has embraced the fullness of the human experience, not to transcend it, but to redeem and renew it."
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May 5, 2024 -- "What About Him?"
"Jesus refocuses us not only on the work and life before us, but also The One before us. He doesn't just tell us to face our realities, but says, “Follow me.” We’re not being called to go anywhere Jesus hasn’t gone before us. When we “What about” others’ lives, we are turning our face away from the Risen One before us who is leading, guiding, and walking with us into any suffering or struggle we might face."
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April 28, 2024 -- "The Sheep, The Goats, and The Church" (Don Fothergill)
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April 21, 2024 -- "Bringing it Back"
"The question for us, if we want to make a difference in the world, if we want to serve God, if we want to help other people to know Jesus, if we want to practice resurrection…is not whether we have lived or are living a perfect life, not whether we have done or are doing great things, not about all the skills and experience and certifications we bring to the table. The question for us, from Jesus, is “Do you love me?”"
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April 14, 2024 -- "Breakfast with Jesus"
"And maybe that is how we also recognize Jesus in the world. We don’t see Jesus’ face and run to him. We notice the kinds of things Jesus DOES, and recognize that Christ is there. To practice resurrection is to notice where the Spirit of the Risen Christ is stirring and dive in."
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April 7, 2024 -- "Practicing Resurrection" (John 20)
"So much of Christian faith should be about breaking cycles and shattering expectations. Often it isn’t. We talk about things like 'preserving Judeo-Christian values' or a 'Christian moral code'…and that's fine. But Jesus is way more cycle-breaking than we often think and act like. Jesus is always breaking cycles in us and through us."
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March 31, 2024 -- "40 Days with the Risen Christ" (Luke 24)
"Resurrection is a deeply intimate, physical experience. It takes time and our whole bodies for resurrection to soak into us, reconstitute us, reinvigorate us to be a people who channel the abundant Life of God into a world of fearful scarcity."
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