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October 6, 2024
Rev. Dr. Neil Thomas
Good Book, Lousy Hammer
The Bible isn’t a textbook. It isn’t a formula. It is a complex, spacious, mysterious, sometimes nebulous collection of stories that we are invited to explore as we seek to understand this life and the life beyond it. The less tempted we are to weaponize the words against other people, the more likely we are to find a faith that does not harm. If we use it to make us better humans, that would make us wise stewards of those words. The Good Book makes a really lousy hammer.

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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