Sermons - Milagro Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)

Sermons - Milagro Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)

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  • So That We Can Understand
    The sharing of our stories is healing because in sharing our lives we are no longer separated. No longer separated from our fellows, from God, from the world. We are brought back out of isolation and loneliness. And our witness allows other people to realize they , too, are not alone, not isolated. And perhaps we can bring those back who thought they didn’t belong. By witnessing to God’s overwhelming spirit of love we can bring back those who were TOLD they don’t belong.
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  • One, But Not the Same
    But it isn’t by our doctrines and our rules and our theology and the bibles
    we use that we will tell people who we are. Not the way we preach. No the
    way we proselytize. Not the way we pray. Not by the souls we think we save
    or the converts we collect. Not by the doors we knock on. We won’t be known
    because they speak the right language or follow the right set of rules or
    because we call themselves followers  or believers or because we put John
    3:16 on everything.
    We will be known by the way we love. 
    I made your name known to them, and I will make it known, so that the love
    with which you have loved me may be in them.
    What would the world look like if Jesus’ prayer was answered? What would
    our lives look like if we lead with our love, rather than our fear?
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  • Along the Way
    When you sit with those who mourn, when you share what you have with those
    who don’t have as much, when you offer your money so the mission of this
    church can continue, when you give to those who need a little extra help,
    when you sit with people in the hospital, when you offer a hug of
    reassurance, when you rejoice in another person’s happiness, rest assured
    that YOU are walking on the way. When you work and struggle for equality
    among all people, when you speak for those that have no voice and when you
    stand up against injustice, you are walking on the way. When  you offer
    love without condition and acceptance without expectation, you are walking
    along the way.  When you share the stories of how God’s transforming love
    has changed your life, not so that others might be “converted,” but rather
    so that others can ask, “I wonder how that happened, and I wonder if that
    can happen for me, too,” you are walking along the way. And rest assured
    that when you do those things, people can see Jesus reflected in you, and
    perhaps they, too, might have their idea of God redefined, too.
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  • Who Are You?
    Our faith gets stronger when we can subject it to the hard questions, when
    we can ask why things are the way they are.  And, probably better still,
    when we can ask why things aren’t the way they might ought to be.
     Theologian Frederick Beuchner has said, “Doubt is the ants in the pants of
    faith, it keeps it alive and moving."
    Thomas shows us something very near and precious. In his questioning, in
    his doubt, in his wanting to have the assurance that everyone else had,
    Jesus find him, come to him and gives him what he needs to believe. Jesus
    doesn’t condemn Thomas. Doesn’t call him faithless. Doesn’t mock him. Jesus
    stood among the disciples and offered them peace, and a week later Jesus
    comes to Thomas and offers Thomas that same peace.  That same peace that
    Jesus offers us, even in the midst of our doubt.
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  • Road to Emmaus
    The turning point in this story, though, is when Cleopas and friend invite
    this person they still see as a stranger to stay with them for dinner. This
    story reminds us that grace and hope and healing can be found in community.
    Even in the midst of their pain and their grief, when the chance to offer
    hospitality presented itself, they took it.
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  • True Peace

    True Peace

    This is Rita Marquez’ sermon from Sunday, April 13, 2014. The scripture is Luke 28-47. In our service we read from the New Revised Standard Version and from The Message, a modern interpretation by Eugene Peterson. We read both with the hope that our understanding will be enriched.

    This is from The Message:
    28-31 After saying these things, Jesus headed straight up to Jerusalem. When he got near Bethphage and Bethany at the mountain called Olives, he sent off two of the disciples with instructions: “Go to the village across from you. As soon as you enter, you’ll find a colt tethered, one that has never been ridden. Untie it and bring it. If anyone says anything, asks, ‘What are you doing?’ say, ‘His Master needs him.’” 32-33 The two left and found it just as he said. As they were untying the colt, its owners said, “What are you doing untying the colt?” 34 They said, “His Master needs him.” 35-36 They brought the colt to Jesus. Then, throwing their coats on its back, they helped Jesus get on. As he rode, the people gave him a grand welcome, throwing their coats on the street. 37-38 Right at the crest, where Mount Olives begins its descent, the whole crowd of disciples burst into enthusiastic praise over all the mighty works they had witnessed: Blessed is he who comes, the king in God’s name! All’s well in heaven! Glory in the high places! 39 Some Pharisees from the crowd told him, “Teacher, get your disciples under control!” 40 But he said, “If they kept quiet, the stones would do it for them, shouting praise.” 41-44 When the city came into view, he wept over it. “If you had only recognized this day, and everything that was good for you! But now it’s too late. In the days ahead your enemies are going to bring up their heavy artillery and surround you, pressing in from every side. They’ll smash you and your babies on the pavement. Not one stone will be left intact. All this because you didn’t recognize and welcome God’s personal visit.” 45-46 Going into the Temple he began to throw out everyone who had set up shop, selling everything and anything. He said, “It’s written in Scripture, My house is a house of prayer; You have turned it into a religious bazaar.” 47-48 From then on he taught each day in the Temple. The high priests, religion scholars, and the leaders of the people were trying their best to find a way to get rid of him. But with the people hanging on every word he spoke, they couldn’t come up with anything.

    The New Revised Standard Version can be found here.

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  • What Are You Looking At?
    And I think sometimes that’s why we have difficulty with grace, sometimes.
    That’s why we look for they “why,” perhaps.  We have a hard time seeing
    grace in and with others because we have a hard time accepting grace in and
    with US. We have a hard time accepting that grace just happens. Whether or
    not we want it to. I mean we can talk intellectually about the idea of
    being “saved” through grace and not works all we want too, but honestly,
    when it comes into our lives as beautifully and disruptively as it did for
    this blind man, we do ask, “what did I do to deserve it.”
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  • Silence
    He goes to the cave. God’s like, what are you doing here? Elijah says, you know God, I tried. I’ve been a zealous follower of yours all this time and for what? For what? I’ve watched your followers break their covenant with you, I’ve seen your alters torn down, I’ve seen your people killed. And now they want to kill me. ‘What am I doing here?’ I’m done. I’m finished. God says, “Go stand on the mountain and watch for God to pass by.” And then there were storms. Heavy, gusty winds. Loud crashing earthquakes. And then – silence. And God wasn’t in the loud and the gust of the wind or the crashing and the banging and the clanging of the rocks. God was in the silence.
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  • Drop the Rock*
    Let’s live generously, searching for ways that our lives and our experiences might transform the lives of others. Let's ask God to inspire us to new beautiful ways to be a gracious and giving community. And let us ask God to help us remember that even when we fall short -- like our friends the disciples -- let us ask God to remind us that God walks with us, to remember that if God takes us up the mountain, God will come back down the mountain and God will go out into that messy, confusing hurting lost broken world with us.
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