That's What She Said

Ministry Intern Josh Bridges preaches on The Magnificat, and he has some powerful words for us today. Here’s a little taste: “History is an act of persuasion.” You’re not going to want to miss this one.

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Let Us Then Go to Him, Outside the Camp. We used to think “welcome” was the main thing. But getting “them” in here with “us” isn’t our highest aspiration, is it? What does it mean for a church’s identity, to be constantly seeking the margins, the ones who are still not here yet?

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Dirt Under Our Fingernails. Here is Jesus-In-a-Hamster-Ball, making all these reign-of-God things happen – and some people are thrilled, and some people are enraged. How does he do that? But mainly – who are these “friends” who claw away the roof to get their guy near enough to Jesus for Jesus to do his Jesus-thang? And how much dirtier can our own fingernails get, for Christ’s sake?

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Bruised reeds, dimly burning wicks, and the gentle gospel of “maybe all is not lost.” From the start, we imagined that spiritual refugees would not survive a loud, authoritative (authoritarian?) evangelistic approach. What if we inverted the preaching paradigm and approached this world in humility? It’s a sea change the church must make for its future, and the future of the world God still loves.

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Won’t you be my neighbor? Katie can only ever preach the parable of the Good Samaritan from the perspective of the lawyer whose expectations about who’s in and who’s out, who’s ahead and who’s behind, are upended in Jesus’s worldmaking story. What happens when a contemporary Samaritan hears, and preaches, the same story?

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Decision fatigue, coronatide, the two Marys, Jesus is risen indeed.

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A meditation from Rev. Dr. Katie Hays at the beginning of our Good Friday service.

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#6: Resurrection. Okay, so Lazarus isn’t technically resurrected here; he still has to die again, so we’ll call this resuscitation. But still – the vast unspeakable power of God over the power of death, vested in Jesus in this story – that I might be part of the eternal, ongoing fabric of the universe – that I don’t know what that means, or looks like – whoa, man

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#5: Blindness. Literal blindness, for sure, is terrifying. But the way John constructs this story, the blindness is entrenched in those who think they see. “The eye cannot see itself,” the philosophers said. So what am I missing? What would be revealed to me if I were healed?

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