25th September 2022 Year C – Pentecost 16 “You Can’t Take it with You”
What to do with a car door!
ALL AGE MESSAGE
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What to do with a car door!
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Jesus is increasing in wisdom by asking and listening and even amazes his elders!
It is frustrating when we have to call on one much younger, to teach us about computers!
However, there are also times when the wisdom and experience of having lived a bit of life is both important and valued.
The acronym for TEAM: ” Together Everyone Achieves More”, opens us to possibilities and to actively encouraging each other.
To say “Thank You” connects us to the bigger picture – God and what Jesus is on about. Jesus healed, not only the disease of the leper, but the social disability. It is about learning to be people who connect to the bigger picture. ALL AGE MESSAGE Saying ‘Thank You’ and ‘Sorry’ opens us up…
Our society works on ‘rules for good people and punishment for bad things’. In suffering this is challenged.
In Isaiah, God says that he worked differently, persevering in faith in adversity.
In Luke the story about the bad Fig tree is challenged, but with caring and nurture, good is achieved.
Following Jesus is not an easy choice. It may require us to make Jesus our ‘Top Priority’ and be willing to give up anything for God.
However it may not be an ‘either’ /’or’ choice but finding a balance in our commitment and making Jesus the foundation of all we are trying to do so we can say “Amen”.
Is there more than this life? Jesus had a series of confrontations with the hierarchy about the future.
Jewish people had struggled – justice was lacking – so resurrection thinking emerged.
Resurrected people are called to love this life in the best way each one can and trust God in the life to come.
Joel is telling of terrible times, full of doom, famine and plaque, consequences of disobedience to God.
Paul shows us God never abandons us – the Spirit is always ready to empower us, to bring healing and gives words for the glory of God and to share the Spirit wherever we go.