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U-turns are permitted in life. We grow, change, fail and succeed. We believe that God is there, that He loves us and will bring us safely through whatever life throws our way. That's why we can make u-turns when necessary with confidence and not fear. This podcast is sponsored by Trinity Christian Reformed Church in Broomall, Pa.
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Monday Jan 10, 2022
Monday Jan 10, 2022
Today we begin a 12-week sermon series on the Book of Deuteronomy, the 5th and final book of the Pentateuch. Israel stands on the verge of entering Canaan after 40 years of wandering in the wilderness. As Walter Brueggemann says: "Deuteronomy looks both backward to rootage and forward to crisis, and interprets at the precise place where rootage and crisis intersect." That makes Deuteronomy also relevant for our time. Today is the introduction.
Thursday Jan 06, 2022
Thursday Jan 06, 2022
Today we read Jeremiah 31:7-14, together with churches all over the world (a lectionary reading). How do we live when things for which we long so desperately don't happen? When promises don't come true? When it seems like nothing is going well for us?
Monday Dec 27, 2021
Monday Dec 27, 2021
Today, the day after Christmas, we look at the trip the Magi took to worship the newborn king. Why did they undertake that journey? For what/whom were they longing? Their trip took discipline and commitment over a long period of time. Do we have the same longing for a new world and the same commitment to, as Eugene Peterson put it, a "long obedience in the same direction"?
Saturday Dec 25, 2021
Saturday Dec 25, 2021
On this Christmas Eve we consider the shepherds, living their lives in the field outside Bethlehem, who hear the gospel - the good news - that today a Savior is born, who is Christ the Lord. They decide to go quickly, with haste, to see and meet him. Will you do the same?
Monday Dec 20, 2021
Monday Dec 20, 2021
Today we conclude our Advent series on Lamentations. How do we Lament without turning in on ourselves and becoming hopelessly and helplessly self-centered, sinking into a pit of despair? Lamentations shows us how to turn lament into a work of justice and resisting of evil. And leads us to Jesus, Word become flesh, who dwelt among us, full of grace and truth.
Monday Dec 13, 2021
Monday Dec 13, 2021
Today we look at Lamentations 3, words spoken and penned by a Man (3:1), a man defined differently than the regular use of the word "man". This is a strong man, a man of valor. He expresses his afflictions and troubles, and then speaks out the only hopeful words in the book of Lamentations: God's faithfulness is new every morning.
Tuesday Dec 07, 2021
Tuesday Dec 07, 2021
This is the 2nd Sunday of Advent 2021. We read portions of the 2nd chapter of Lamentations, and hear the narrator accuse God of bringing disaster down upon Jerusalem and her inhabitants. God is blamed unequivocably - but in accusing him, the people hold on to him, and "in that holding they clear space for new ways to meet God” (O'Connor pg. 123). May this Advent time be a time for clearing space and meeting God in new ways.
Monday Nov 29, 2021
Monday Nov 29, 2021
This is the first Sunday of Advent, 2021. We are looking at the book of Lamentations as we awaiting the coming of the Christ-child. Today is the introduction and a look at Chapter 1, which focuses on Jerusalem's lack of someone to comfort her in her distress.
Tuesday Nov 23, 2021
Tuesday Nov 23, 2021
Rev. Dr. Kyuboem Lee speaks today from Romans 15:1-7 and shows us how we can really accept one another.
Monday Nov 15, 2021
Monday Nov 15, 2021
In this last on our series on Freeing Jesus by Diana Butler Bass, we look at Jesus as Presence. What does it mean that Jesus is present in our lives and in this world?