Celebrations of History
Sunday, October 26, 2025
Challenges for Today
The Spirit Wends Its Way Into Every Moment, Every Life.
Sometimes we can even see it
between the trees in the sunlight.
Proverbs 3:27
Do not withhold good from those to whom it is due, when it is in your power to do it.
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James 2:2-4
For if a person with gold rings and in fine clothes comes into your assembly, and if a poor person in dirty clothes also comes in, and if you take notice of the one wearing the fine clothes and say, “Have a seat here, please,” while to the one who is poor you say, “Stand there,” or, “Sit at my feet,” have you not made distinctions among yourselves, and become judges with evil thoughts?
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Words of Grace for Today –
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Do good!
Seek no honour!
Be humble!
All well and good.
But …
It’s not the beginning of the Gospel of Jesus Christ.
It’s not what brings us closer to God.
First: God acts and saves us through Jesus’ sacrifice, forgiving our sins (each moment we breathe – and sin, since that’s who we are- miserable sinners all. Well we are actually really good at sinning!)
And then …
Well then we GET (not must) … We GET to work to do good for all people and all creation.
We get to seek no honour! We get to be humble!
We get to live with wide horizons, open hearts, engaged minds, and active hands, always doing Christ’ work here today.
And that takes reform every day, moving from the status quo so dripping with sin as it always is, and moving towards being Grace saved, Grace living, Grace giving.