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Jesus is at work to not only restore, but also re-story all things. This week, we revisit Act 1 of our story (creation) in the epiphany light of Christ, noting how John’s gospel masterfully presents Jesus as creator and re-creator.

We enter the season of epiphany and explore how Jesus not only restores, but re-stories, everything that came before.

This morning Benjamin Wills spoke of a new song, a chorus of liberation, and how we’re invited to be active participants not in an empire, but a kingdom. The kingdom’s cadence is compassion and curiosity, a keenness to where God is working. Can we hear?

In a follow up to a teaching on Exodus from a few weeks past, Megan Ramsey shares a homily on the liberation of Exodus and the song of liberation we hear throughout the big story.

This morning Parishioner John Ott challenges our assumptions around the idea of obedience; recognizing that obedience is fundamental to the Christian path, but, it is more about the location of it in the sense that obedience is located in-between the practice of remembrance and God’s abundance.  Obedience is therefore not a formulaic and shamed based response, but rather something we do out of overflow in our remembrance of God’s faithfulness in the past and our hope in God’s presence in the future.

This past Sunday, Jordan took us through the Exodus story, noting that God hears the cries of trying times and He responds. In our own stories, we often want instant gratification, immediate transformation, a quick solution, but God has a purpose and plan, seeking our patience, cooperation and discernment to understand what He is up to.