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• The Beauty of God in Community
• What would Jesus shoot?
• It Takes Work
• More to Learn
• One With the Divine Life
• Past Issues of A Word From Grace Street

Whom Do We Invite?

Needless to say, this is not Jesus’ take on early Emily Post. He is, yes, present for a meal in this morning’s Gospel reading, but the meal is only the jumping-off point. As is his wont, Jesus takes something from everyday life, something banal, does his parabolic magic, and offers us, not mere etiquette, but food for the soul.

Eightfifteen Sunday

Leslie Choplin was our guest preacher on Sunday, August 22, as part of “Eightfifteen Sunday,” when members of the eightfifteen group for 20- and 30-somethings at St. Paul’s led our 10 a.m. worship service.

The Call to New Life

The way Jesus lived forced a choice upon everyone who met him. Jesus didn’t grab people by their lapels and shout at them to follow Him or else. Instead, he offered himself. He spoke of God. He told the truth. He lived with compassion. He lived with love and he lived with integrity. People saw in Jesus something that caused in them a crisis and they had to choose. For the world to see Jesus today, it must look at us.

“Be Not Afraid”

Fear will remain, but how do we learn to live in such a way that fear does not get the better of us, does not hold us, keep us, back, from doing what God would have us do; that fear would not keep us from really living the lives that God would have us live. And so, in this morning’s gospel passage, we hear Jesus say, “Be not afraid.”

The Parable of the Rich Fool

“... if we’ll go back and take a closer look at the parable, there’s something there that we might have missed, something that goes beyond warning to something still more life-giving, something more encouraging than simply a message of warning.” 

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ARTICLES

• Elevation Celebration: An Update!
• ‘A Radically Benevolent Universe’
• This Spring, Hope
• Elevation: Up, Up, & Away!
• Elevation: From Discernment into Action
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VIDEO & PHOTOS

Bishop Shannon’s Investiture