“We have been given power beyond ourselves to resist evil. We have been given courage to face any fear. We have been given hope for we are bound together with the whole of the body of Christ, saints both living and who have gone before, who will walk with us in resisting evil.”
“The remainder of the scriptures from Exodus all the way to the end of Revelation is essentially wrestling with the question of: how can we best be an alternative society that in the midst of a world that’s governed by the economics of Pharaoh, we embody God’s liberating economics of love?”
Celebration is what makes our work of ministry possible. Only from appreciating God’s abundance in our lives can we imagine it for others—and then help them see it for themselves.
“I think parts of the great Dr. Rev Martin Luther King Jr.’s story never get told, and the story of his famous last speech is just as inspirational and mystical as the content of the speech itself.”
“We trusted each other with our stories and they taught me what it meant to be authentic and vulnerable. It’s very difficult to pretend you have it all together when you’re carrying everything you own on your back.”
“I don’t think Jesus gives him the pat answer we may think this is. Jesus, I think, turns the whole scenario upside down.”
“And things will get done not only by you, but by other people who need what it is that you want to do in your heart.”
“The church bids us slow down and prepare slowly and patiently for something as grand as the arrival of Jesus in our midst. What frustrates me each year, as I try my darnedest to be in Advent, is that as soon as Christmas arrives, all of the celebrations stop!”
