With the events of this past week I bet we’re all grateful that we trust the promises of God and God’s power to use all things for a purpose beyond our sight.

When working on Sunday's ‘Divine Disruption’ sermon, I was centered on the Spirit’s intruding into our settled lives, shaking us, perhaps out of lethargy or even avoidance. But now that we’re conscripted into a heightened battle with seasoned forces – forces comfortable with confrontation and coercion, it’s going to take every bit of courage and candor and collaboration among God’s people to face the systems of repression and mutual distrust that have brought us here.

There is no victory in violence. They will know we are Christians by our love.

It’s true. Pass it along –

Cress