Cross United Church

Those who want to be faithful to Jesus are always tempted to grab the sword to defend him. In other words, we try to do the Lord’s work in the world’s way. So in light of that temptation, I want to talk about some ways we’re tempted to grab the sword, what happens when we do, and then consider what it means to put the sword away.

Now these three remain: faith, hope, and love—but the greatest of these is love.

We should pray for a united church that reflects God, so that the world will believe and know the gospel.

By following the example of Jesus and overhearing his prayer to his Father we can learn to pray well for the people of God in our own generation. We find here six ways to pray for the people of God.

Jesus wants us to actively and intentionally listen to him, and in this text we find three ways to do just that.

How Do We Live in Authentic Community?

Three ways to refresh your communion with God.

According to the dictionary on my laptop, a rhythm is “a strong, regular, repeated pattern of movement or sound.” God infused our world with rhythms and patterns that make sense of our world. He put strong, regular, repeated patterns of movement that clue us into the nature of things. The rhythm of the sea. The rhythm of the seasons. The rhythm of a song. He put rhythms into his work of creation, and he also put rhythms into the work of redemption. There are strong, regular, repeated patterns of movement or sound in the song of the good news of Jesus Christ. God’s regular pattern of doing things.

Tune into the Spirit through three movements of listening that Jesus gives to us.

Would you rather have a time machine to be with Jesus in person, or your current Christian experience?