Sometimes we have more questions than answers about where life is taking us and what’s most important to us. How do we find our way through all the activities, distractions, and competing demands to settle on what’s most important? How does God help us find what we need for our faith to grow?
Where do we go when life doesn’t go according to our plans? Sometimes it seems like we need to go back somewhere in order to go forward in our life. When this happens, how does God become the place that we can always return to when we’re struggling with how our life is going?
Where is home and how does being there make you feel? Do you feel at home with God? For some folks home is a place of joy, comfort, and security while for others it can be a complicated and uncertain place. This Advent our sermon series will focus on ways we experience home, and how God is with us however we feel about home.
On Sunday, November 28th, we will explore the topic of Home for the Holidays: Safely Home. Many things in our lives can make us feel unsafe or unwelcome. Where do we turn when we have those experiences and where is God in the uncertainty of what’s happening? How can we make sure we are not the ones making others feel unsafe or unwelcome in the places we are present?
For some people Thanksgiving is a time of reuniting with those we love and for others it’s a time of obligation, and we can find ourselves sharing a meal with folks with whom we disagree on many issues. How do we hold the tension of remaining faithful to our values as we believe Jesus calls us to do and loving one another when we don’t see eye to eye?
This isn’t a sermon of answers–it’s a sermon of wrestling with the hard question of how do we remain in relationship with people who might not share our most important core values.
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