Excerpt from yesterday's sermon...
Jesus Christ is always affirming, renewing, redeeming, and restoring
us. Instead of guilt, Jesus offers us
forgiveness; instead of hunger, food; instead of loneliness, his caring
presence; instead of death, life; instead of alienation, adoption and belonging. Jesus takes our need and reaches through it
to restore us.
Like the disciples, we are called to participate in his miracles; To reach out in Christ name, in his love and
with his power to those in any need. To
give witness to the power of God in Christ and to bring hope into lives that
have been left abandoned or broken. We
are called to feed the hungry, clothe the naked, give rest to the weary, bring
good news to those held captive.