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There is something very important, pivotal, and fragile being revealed about this moment in history. The ancients used the word apocalypse to describe an urgent unveiling, the bringing into light of an ultimate state of affairs.
 
While engaging the chief priests and elders in an exchange that seems eerily similar to many that dominate our politics of late, Jesus enters into the fray, but in a way that exposes the deadly whirlwind of their ambition, and the life-giving turn toward “a new heart and a new spirit” that restores the whole of creation.
 
What perhaps is most surprising is the power that each of us has to turn the tide, to restore the Divine Center, as Richard Rohr names it, by “holding it and fully occupying it ourselves,”—taking on the “mind of Christ” (Philippians 2), or as Etty Hillesum knew, that we can “safeguard that little piece of … God in ourselves.”
 
Indeed, this may be some of our most important work in this apocalyptic time. Turn, then, and live. Enter into God’s rest. Enter into worship.

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of God and unmasks the deadly spirits of our disorder. Instead of using wages to reinforce distinctions, Jesus uses them to express equality and solidarity—a living wage, a day’s wage for each worker. Not equal pay for equal work, but plenty and not too much for all—an economy for all souls!​
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We nod our heads in agreement even as we remember the Spirit is often in the details. And the one detail that may be most essential, and at the root of America’s original sin is captured in the complaint of the first vineyard workers: “You have made them equal to us…” Indeed, God has! And therein lies the saving Good News. Enter into worship.

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You can choose to watch all of this Sunday's worship service in a series of linked videos, one after the other by clicking this link. Just press the button that says "PLAY ALL" and sit back and relax. You can also just click on the graphic to the left.​ Otherwise, proceed as normal through the sections.

Consider this: church is not so much what we do as who we are together. “Church is the people I’m trying to follow Jesus with and the people who are following Jesus with me,” says Daniel Kirk. “It’s the intentional community of people who walk in self-giving love for each other while trusting themselves to the care of God.”
 
“Teach me, O Lord, the way of your statutes, and I will observe it to the end,” prays the psalmist (119:33).
 
We “mortals” long to discern between the ways of the “wicked” Ezekiel (33:7-11) so confidently distinguishes from the word of salvation that God’s servants who “put on the Lord Jesus Christ” (Romans 13:14) are compelled to speak. Otherwise, “lest we die” says Ezekiel, the servants are responsible for their demise. Whatever you bind or loose on earth will be bound or loosed in heaven, says Matthew (18:18). If we are indeed the servants, the “binders” and the “looseners” how can we be so obliged to “wake from sleep,” so responsible when we feel ourselves so tired, and offended and in need of shelter?
 
What do the simple ways of empathy and engagement and resistance that we encounter in parental care and prophetic dissent—in pandemic, no less!—teach the people together trying to follow Jesus? In these chaotic and unsettling days flooded with threats both real, imagined, and manufactured what paths of faith navigate us to the salvation so near? Enter into rest. Enter into hope. Enter into worship.