The first Sunday in Lent almost always focuses on Jesus’ being tempted by Satan in the wilderness. And while the wilderness in Judea isn’t known for its edible fruit, Jesus gets through the temptations by drawing on a different kind of fruit entirely—the fruit of the Spirit.
– Pastor Anne
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On this particular Sunday I had the honor of baptizing Susan Caruso’s new great grandson, Lorenzo Michael Vardaro. Methodists call Baptism both a sacrament and a covenant. We call marriage a covenant but not a sacrament and Holy Communion a sacrament but not a covenant. So what’s a covenant anyway?
– Pastor Anne
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We’ve talked about Jesus telling us who we already are: Salt and Light. We’ll spend quite a bit longer on the fruit that begins to grow in those who allow the Holy Spirit to dwell in them and how we can participate in nurturing those fruits. Read or watch to learn more.
– Pastor Anne
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Like with salt, Jesus tells those who came to hear him on the mountainside that they are the light of the world. Did he just bookend the creation story in Genesis 1 by creating light at the beginning and at the end? Hang on to your photons, and read or watch to learn more.
– Pastor Anne
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Jesus told those assembled on a hillside that they were the salt of the earth but warned that salt could lose its flavor. Is it really about taste? To find the answer we need to look to the beginnings of civilization and then to God’s Covenant of Salt in the book of Numbers. Click one of the buttons below to watch or read more; and stay salty
– Pastor Anne
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One of the more perplexing lines in the Gospels is when a man comes to Jesus with a question and begins by addressing Jesus as, “Good Teacher.” Jesus’ first response is not to answer the man’s question, but to ask the man why he had addressed him as “good,” when only God is good. What’s going on there?
– Pastor Anne
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