Rhythms Of Grace Community Fellowship

Holy Week 2024 Sunday Evening

When we choose control over trust and we give in to power instead of being vulnerable and open, then we miss the point of Palm Sunday. Any spirituality, even one that promotes peace and love and yet makes room for violence and power in pursuit of it's goals will devolve into the game of power that Jesus refuses to play on Palm Sunday.

Holy Week 2024 Sunday Morning Parable of the Hard Man

Jesus seems to say, Yes, you need to plan, but the only thing you can ever really plan for is the fact that you will fall asleep, you will miss read the signs, in fact, you will only ever get into God's party because of the grace of God.

Romans Part 10 At One Ment

For Paul, salvation is not just a transaction between you and God, where you believe the right things and he saves you because of it. For Paul, salvation is a dynamic relationship where you come to understand that God is faithful to you, and you learn to trust in him because you believe that he is faithful.

Parables of Grace Part 9 The 10 Lepers and Vultures

Death is all of the resurrection we can now know - the rest is faith! Wherever the corpses are, this old vulture's going to find them and raise them up!

Romans Part 9 None, No Not One

Paul's goal isn't to grind you down. It's to invite you to let go of expectations that were never realistic to start with. So that you can discover faith in the God who is faithful to you!

Parables of Grace Part 8 The Barren Fig Tree

It's this acceptance of death that Jesus continues to press in the parable of the Barren Fig Tree. As long as His death feeds our roots, we'll never be cut down.

Romans Part 8 Who has the Advantage?

A fundamental aspect of Jewish identity was their sense of holding a special status, "we are God's favorites". They thought this excluded them from God's wrath. But Paul is not done. If he hasn't gotten everybody mad at him in this letter, he keeps going.

Parables of Grace Part 7 Watchful Servants

After all the years the church has suffered under forceful preachers and winning orators, clerical bigmouths with ego's to match, how nice to hear that Jesus expects preachers in their congregations to be nothing more than faithful household cooks. The preacher has only to deliver food, not flash, Gospel, not uplift.

Romans Part 7 Refresher

At the core of this letter is an attempt, by Paul, to make sense of the mystery of God's grace extended to us in Jesus. May we come to know who we are in the light of God's love, just like Paul.

The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse

What the riders are doing here, they are not God sending the apocalypse on humanity. They are images of humanity beginning to recognize the cracks in the system. Remember the revelation comes after the sacrifice of Christ, after the fact that we begin to see sacrifice for what it really is.