Formation: Scripture That Made Us Who We Are 1/7

Won’t you be my neighbor? Katie can only ever preach the parable of the Good Samaritan from the perspective of the lawyer whose expectations about who’s in and who’s out, who’s ahead and who’s behind, are upended in Jesus’s worldmaking story. What happens when a contemporary Samaritan hears, and preaches, the same story?

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Easter Sunday, 2020

Decision fatigue, coronatide, the two Marys, Jesus is risen indeed.

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Good Friday, 2020

A meditation from Rev. Dr. Katie Hays at the beginning of our Good Friday service.

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Palm Sunday, 2020

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6 Things That Scare Me 6/6

#6: Resurrection. Okay, so Lazarus isn’t technically resurrected here; he still has to die again, so we’ll call this resuscitation. But still – the vast unspeakable power of God over the power of death, vested in Jesus in this story – that I might be part of the eternal, ongoing fabric of the universe – that I don’t know what that means, or looks like – whoa, man

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6 Things That Scare Me 5/6

#5: Blindness. Literal blindness, for sure, is terrifying. But the way John constructs this story, the blindness is entrenched in those who think they see. “The eye cannot see itself,” the philosophers said. So what am I missing? What would be revealed to me if I were healed?

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6 Things That Scare Me 4/6

Thing That Scares Us #4: Individuality trending towards isolationism.

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6 Things That Scare Me 3/6

#3: Exposure. This idea that Jesus sees me for who I really am, sees right through all the defenses I throw up, tears down all the walls I’ve built – It’s enough to make Nicodemus slink off under the cover of darkness. 

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6 Things That Scare Me 2/6

#2: Jesus. Jesus does whatever the fuck he wants. He can do amazing tricks at your party, or he can toss you out on your ass. Honeybadger Jesus. 

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6 Things That Scare Me 1/6

#1: Death. Death as a consequence of disobedience, death as an inherited condition from our ancestors, death as one of the possibilities (and now an inevitability) in the world God loves. The Good Place said death gives life meaning, and I guess that’s true, but I don’t want anybody I love to die. Ever.

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Wiki Jesus: How to Everything 8/8

How to Shine Like the Sun. What if the Transfiguration is Jesus’s check-in with the higher-ups, his mid-point meeting with mentors? What if he’s seeking a progress report, to know how he’s doing with this reign-of-God mission he took on back at his baptism? The voice from above speaks again, affirming that Jesus is exactly who God hoped he would be. We hope for nothing less, and God gives nothing less, to all who stay on the path of faith. Ashley D is preaching. 

Wiki Jesus: How to Everything 7/8

How to Avoid Distractions Along the Way. Jesus here outlines pitfalls for the disciple who is traveling the path of faith – judgment, swine, bad fruit, self-deception, hearing-without-doing. How are we meant to hear his warnings today?

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Wiki Jesus: How to Everything 6/8

How to Do Religion. A continuation from last week – with specific instruction about religious practices: generosity, prayer, fasting, budgeting, looking, serving, (not) worrying… 

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Wiki Jesus: How to Everything 5/8

How to be Perfect. Matthew 5:48 is devastating – “Be perfect as your heavenly Parent is perfect” – unless we can get a handle on the Semitic idea of “leaning toward completion” (rather than the Western notion of the Platonic ideal). What would it mean for our faithful practice if we were honing and toning our intentions, our inner selves, like yoga for the spirit?

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Wiki Jesus: How to Everything 4/8

How to be #Blessed. The beatitudes, or “congratulations,” show us Jesus’s upside-down view of power, prestige, and comfort – he seems to prefer powerlessness, low status, and disadvantage. This is our antidote to any so-called “gospel” that promises material and spiritual ease. For Jesus, the low-down are the salty lights he’s looking for.

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Wiki Jesus: How to Everything 3/8

How to Start a Church. Jesus jumps into his ministry with (1) a declaration of gospel (the dawning of death-defying light!); (2) a clear call for help; and (3) the willingness to go where they need him most. That’s how we do it, folks. This is how we’re still doing it. Tyler Araki is preaching.

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Wiki Jesus: How to Everything 2/8

How to get everyone’s attention. Say a public and plain “yes” to what God wants, as Jesus does in his baptism “to fulfill all righteousness,” and you’ll have the attention of the Enemy as well. We live in a world saturated with not-God possibilities, as Jesus did. It doesn’t get easier just because we’re with him.

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Wiki Jesus: How to Everything 1/8

How to tell the truth. Christmas can be a sentimental season. There are no carols about the “slaughter of the innocents,” at least not in Protestant experience. But Matthew won’t leave us with a gauzy manger scene in a startlingly clean barn; he has an accompanying memory in mind that must have its say. We’re reminded of another Matthean warning, coming later: “From the days of John the Baptist until now the kingdom of heaven has suffered violence, and the violent take it by force” (Matthew 11:12).

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Drum Roll, Please! (pa rum pa pum pum) 6/6

Home By Another Way. Gentiles welcome (and protect) the toddler Jesus; the eternal Christ welcomes (and saves) Gentiles. Human destinies intertwined; we are included! Thanks be to God!

Drum Roll, Please! (pa rum pa pum pum) 5/6

God’s logos/logic, walking around. God-in-the-flesh. Gasp!  

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