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On Reformation Sunday, it's easy to assume we've arrived the promises. But even we of the Reformed wing of the chuch must here this as promise rather thjan exclusive fulfillment. Church on the Hill, Lenox (UCC)

Jesus disrupts, the religious authorities demand to know why, and I think it's a fair question. Church on the Hill, Lenox (UCC)

Do you get upset?  Church on the Hill, Lenox (UCC)

Being together can make for a lot of tension. It's still easier than being apart. Church on the Hill, Lenox (UCC)

Simple instructions for unavoidable problems. Still quite a challenge. Church on the Hill, Lenox (UCC)

History flows wide and lazy, tight and furious. We are the boat and we are the cargo and God provides for our movement from  life to Life. Church on the Hill, Lenox (UCC)

But it's a good one. Church on the Hill, Lenox (UCC)

With John's death, Jesus finds himself out front.  It gives him pause. Church on the Hill, Lenox MA (UCC)

In a surprising turn, Esau offers us saving words. "I have enough."  Church on the Hill, Lenox (UCC)

Solomon's wisdom is idomatic, but even that didn't play out without its downsides. Suffering leaderhips these days that is far from wise, what hope to we have--but hope? Church on the Hill, Lenox (UCC)

Jacob busts his buttons with pride to discover what's already been discovered. Church on the Hill, Lenox (UCC)

Reading scripture for people whom we ought to be like rather than for people who are actully like us constrains it, fundamentally changed the story of God-with-us, steadfast in faithfulness. We can do better.  Church on the Hill, Lenox (UCC)

The yoke is easy, but is yet a yoke. The burden is light, but is still burden. Church on the Hill, Lenox (UCC)

God is still speaking. Good thing Abraham was still listening. Church on the Hill, Lenox (UCC)

We don't have to figure out the plan and follow it. Faith is less about figuring things out and more about trusting God's promise of presence, God's enduring, undesvered faithfulness, and God's providence as a wide land of privision in reponse to our freedom. So let's keep going. Church on the Hill, Lenox (UCC)