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 tells the parables of the lost sheep and the lost coin to show God’s urgent and compassionate focus on what is lost.
Unlike the Pharisees, Jesus emphasizes rejoicing over recovery, not punishment.
These stories reveal God’s loving gaze—a divine attention that sees, values, and embraces each
person. We are invited to live within this “solar system of grace,” held by unconditional love.
Though such love can sometimes make us feel inadequate, it also reminds us that everyone experiences failure and brokenness, and yet God loves us just as we are.
The clutter that we hold onto in our lives can easily choke out our Spiritual life and drown out what is important. We are not measured by the abundance of our possessions so we need to focus on what is meaningful to God. ALL AGE MESSAGE Unity is about coming together for a common…
The Triune God Life is about community and relationships.
In community we discover God in mutual love and service.
In relationships we reflect the giving and receiving of love.
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.
What we most long for is what we most fear to find. What if we did, indeed, see the face of God?
The season of Lent calls us to confront our frailty, fallibility and fallenness and yearn for God.
The one we have longed for and feared to seek has already and always been seeking us.
May we be willing to be found.
Peter must have felt strange when he had been a fisherman all his life and Jesus a carpenter , tells him how to catch fish!
Go out deeper!
When we feel discouraged and in need of ‘catching fish’ Jesus calls us to listen to him and he will take us into deeper waters, to form honest Christ centered relationships when people will encounter God – and Grace – in a safe place. Jesus will teach us how to ‘fish with people’.