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September 15, 2024
Rev. Dr. Neil Thomas
It’s an Inside Job
People who are assailed by the storms of this life don’t need any more heartless, loveless, joyless self-identified saints claiming they are Christian while beating the hell out of them. They need people who simply give a care in a way that emulates Jesus, people who see how hard it is to be human and feel burdened to make it a little softer. Let us not be interested that people declare us properly religious or properly Christian. Let them say we cared and loved the marginalized, the alone, the hurting, the invisible, the weary, wounded tired people around us.

If God is Love, Don't Be a Jerk

What if upon Jesus’ return his first question to us is: “I asked you to do one thing: love. So, what happened?” If God is love and if Jesus is the perfect expression of that love, and if we are supposed to follow that Jesus—how can we so often be love-impaired? For as long as human beings have been declaring devotion to a God of love, they have been gloriously screwing it up by being hateful in the process. The Bible doesn’t shy away from that, and neither should we. Join us as we explore some of the ways we fall short of the call to “love God, self, and neighbor” through the book and sermon series If God is Love, Don’t be a Jerk!

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