Needing confession, repentance
Admitting we aren’t perfect allows for a truth we know but try to avoid.
Admitting we aren’t perfect allows for a truth we know but try to avoid.
It is human to shut our eyes and pretend that Jesus won’t have to die.
Like Jesus, we can struggle with what it means to be a child of God.
They traveled far and wide and asked a simple question.
“Bearing Fruit” features Colossians with readings and reflections.
The important question is what did the disciples say they saw?
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It’s about being a servant people invited to share God with the world.
It’s an agenda that means we need to be making a difference now.
But we can become too focused on ourselves, meeting our own needs.
And it’s all a mystery and a miracle why God calls us, any of us.
The Scripture lessons loudly assert the real presence of a real God.
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