- Amos 8: 4-7
- Psalms 113: 1-2, 4-6, 7-8
- 1 Timothy 2: 1-8
- Luke 16: 1-13
- Someone's watching
- How would you define oppression?
- Is it denying someone opportunity to live in a particular neighbohood, send their children to a particular school, get admitted into a prestigious college, a prevailing and pervasive attitude towards "their kind", or something deeper?
- What is the difference between good business and oppression?
- What are we to do about it?
- Solidarity in our time
- Who do you think the prophets and psalmists are talking about when they refer to the poor and the lowly?
- Do you think that you can identify with the poor and the lowly in any regard?
- How has God lifted you up?
- The price of peace
- During this time of polarization in our country, how are you praying for our nation?
- Do you think that God is interested?
- What do you think God wants to come out of this season in our history?
- What can we, as His people do to help?
- Who/what do you worship?
- How do you tell when something that you thought you owned, owns you?
- How do you fix that broken relationship when you find it?
- How do you keep from letting that happen in the first place?
- Am I sensitive to those in need who are around me?
- Do I see others, less fortunate than myself as "losers"?
- Do I trust God even in politics?
- What can I do to become pure of heart?
Wake Up Call
Lord, here we are at the start of another day.
I don't know what you have ordered for this day,
Nor do I know how those gifts will come to me.
Give me the grace to accept all of it gratefully,
That I might see Your image engraved in each moment.
Help me to find joy in the littlest of things
That I might find that same joy in you.
Help me to be generous and give away
All that I am, have and hope for to those You bring to me
So that my hands are full when I come home to you.
Give me the grace to savor the jeweled moments
So that I can give them away without regrets
And not try to cling to that which was never mine.
Give me simplicity, trust, and courage,
That I may not trade you for success, honor, or appreciation.
Let me find peace in stillness
Meaning in the silence
And guidance when there seems no light about me
That my trust in you
Might light my way to my next horizon.
Shalom!
I don't know what you have ordered for this day,
Nor do I know how those gifts will come to me.
Give me the grace to accept all of it gratefully,
That I might see Your image engraved in each moment.
Help me to find joy in the littlest of things
That I might find that same joy in you.
Help me to be generous and give away
All that I am, have and hope for to those You bring to me
So that my hands are full when I come home to you.
Give me the grace to savor the jeweled moments
So that I can give them away without regrets
And not try to cling to that which was never mine.
Give me simplicity, trust, and courage,
That I may not trade you for success, honor, or appreciation.
Let me find peace in stillness
Meaning in the silence
And guidance when there seems no light about me
That my trust in you
Might light my way to my next horizon.
Shalom!
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