The world ought to make sense. Right?!

Some things just seem to matter.  To everyone.  Things like beauty.  Or community.  Or justice.

We long for these things.  We crave them.  We have this intuition that they’re important and good and right.  Yet all too often they seem to lay beyond our reach.

What do we make of this?  Is it all a cruel joke?  Mere fantasy?  Or are these things actually signs — signs pointing to a greater meaning in the world?

In this week's sermon, we kick off an 8-week teaching series, “Looking For A Sign."  We’ll unpack these themes, through the lens of the Christian scriptures, and look at how each points us to the reality that Jesus is making all things new.  We’ll also discuss how these themes connect directly to the vision and DNA of Nova Church.

This week's spiritual practice is noticing. We will dive into the question "Where have I seen Jesus at work in my life, around me, or in our world?"

“Signposts name a reality and point us in a direction.  Likewise, these … signposts name realities that all human cultures value as well as pointing beyond themselves to the meaning of life, to the meaning of the world.  They indicate, in fact, how we ought to ‘make sense’ of the world — how we ought to understand the way the world is and the challenge of being human within it.  The fact that we care about them and are puzzled by them is itself telling us something about the deep ‘sense’ of the world.” — Tom Wright