• Sometimes God’s presence is elusive. How can you focus and see God everywhere?

• I’m praying for the trnsformation in my life. Where do you need to be changed?

• How does a close walk with God change how we use ourselves and resources?

THIS WEEK: THE POWER OF PROXIMITY

• Is there a truth from your past that you must confront to receive liberating love?

• What transformation might you experience as you move closer to this truth?

• How or where is God inviting Middle to change so that we grow as an anti-racist church?

• Love and Justice come together in Jesus’ example. How do we link love and justice in our

work and witness?

• How is the love we extend to our “enemies” disruptive for the good?

• Isaiah 6.8: Then I heard the voice of the Lord saying, “Whom shall I send, and who will go for us?” And I said, “Here am I; send me!” What voice are you hearing during these times? What work do you feel called to do?

• Red/gold envelope donations will support CAAAV, a pan-Asian community-based org that works to build the power of low-income Asian immigrants and refugees in NYC. CAAAV develops leadership in Asian communities to impact the policies and institutions that affect their lives and to participate in the movement for racial and economic justice.

• August 2019 marks the 400th anniversary of the arrival of the first Africans sold into bondage in an English colony in the “New” World. Visit www.400yearsofinequality.org to learn more about some of the efforts of remembrance and resistance to this legacy.

• What is your wilderness moment? What did it teach you about you? About God’s Reign?

• August 2019 marks the 400th anniversary of the arrival of the first Africans sold into bondage in an English colony in the “New” World. Visit www.400yearsofinequality.org to learn more about some of the efforts of rememberance and resistance to this legacy.

• Baptism means many things to many people. If you were baptized, do you remember it? Have you been told stories about it? If you haven’t been baptized, what’s your impression of it? Have you ever felt “baptized by fire” and/or the Holy Spirit?

• Where do we find the Christ child now? And what do we do about that discovery?

• As we enter a new year full of new promise, What might you do to robe yourself in love?