Reign of Christ Sunday, Year B

“I am the Alpha and the Omega”, says the Lord God, who is and who was and who is to come, the Almighty.
~Revelation 1:8
 
Christ the King Sunday can have a problematic ring for some people. Even the less magesterial Reign of Christ doesn’t entirely get away from the problematic imagery of kings and coronations and unfettered power. This is something of the point, though, of this particular Sunday festival. The ways in which God “reigns” or acts as “king” is so profoundly different from human ways. And the ways in which God shows God’s unimaginable power and sublime presence—especially through the story of Jesus is precisely an invitation to reimagine our own approach to power and goodness. Indeed, Christ’s “coronation” is on a cross. And the story of his death, alongside his life and resurrection expose the truth of the ways in which power is abused and destructive of the most perfect of things, and how it could be so different if we were to follow in Jesus’ way.
 
We are pleased this Sunday to welcome Kevin Glackin-Coley. Kevin is the new director of REACH and brings important understandings of the kin-dom of God through his experience beside our Renton neighbors. Kevin will preach for us and then offer some of his time during an Aftertalk conversation to allow for our questions, to reconnect ourselves to the story and work of REACH which has been an important one for us historically, and to imagine new paths of partnership going forward.
 
Enter into worship.
 
Readings:  2 Samuel 23:1-7 † Psalm 132:1-12 or Daniel 7:9-10, 13-14  † Psalm 93 † Revelation 1:4b-8 † John 18:33-37
 
 
About the Art: Hansen, Eugenio. Alpha and Omega, from Art in the Christian Tradition, a project of the Vanderbilt Divinity Library, Nashville, TN. https://diglib.library.vanderbilt.edu/act-imagelink.pl?RC=57533 [retrieved November 11, 2024]. Original source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Alpha_omega_uncial.svg.

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