God's mercy is at work even no,. digging under the surface, reckoning with our hearts and offering his very life to nourish us.

Jesus the incarnate word of God is present among us right here & right now proclaiming a fresh word from God. This word is reshaping the world in the goodness of God, but as it does, it disrupts our anxious clinging to preconceived notions about what God wants & how to be faithful. But there's space for us today, to sit at the feet of Jesus & receive this disruptive, renewing word as we allow it to reshape our lives in God's goodness too. This is the one thing needed. Will we choose the better part today?

Our God is always with us. He’s never distracted or too busy. He is always caring, loving and ready to accept us into a closer relationship. Encountering Jesus is life changing and he walks with us every step of the new way he has made possible

Jesus is still at work among us. He's disarming our fears & disrupting the deals we've made to keep those fears at bay. Jesus is protecting & providing today so fear has no dominion here. There is deliverance & healing in the lordship of Jesus.

Jesus turns the tables of power to show us what tables are really for. Instead of hospitality games and power-posturing, Jesus makes a seat for everyone at the table of God.

(Several interactions with the audience are difficult to hear)

Jesus meets us in our confidence and in our despair; when we are full of faith and when all hope seems lost. He meets us in our most vulnerable moments, accommodating himself to the faith we have. He even meets us when we’re too overcome to ask.

We are never beyond His help or disqualified by our status or circumstance. He is Faithful!

"For the joy set before him..." and the testimony of Simeon.

The Lord watches over those who keep watch. He sees and joins in the care you give away, even in the darkest of nights. The Lord himself is a shepherd who lays among the shepherds and the sheep, ready to give help & strength to all, especially to the overlooked & failing. The Great Shepherd is here with a word of good news: The work you do is not done in vain.