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The Rev. John Gunn

Sacrificial Love

The Rev. John Gunn (other)

"What suffers so long and so much as love? What bears so much; what else imposes such heavy burdens? What way is so bleak and steep and rugged as that way out into the wilderness and up the mountainside on which love takes the shepherd in search of his lost sheep?" asks The Rev. Gunn in this episode of Be Still and Know.

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The Rev. Susan Sparks

So You're a Christian? Whattaya Gonna Do About It?

Hebrews 12:1-3

August 07, 2011

The Rev. Susan Sparks (ABCUSA)

I think we make Christianity way too much about Jesus.  Now wait, please, don't turn the dial quite yet.  Just hear me out.  Think about it this way:  Jesus has done the work he came to do.

  • Good Friday is over. 
  • The crucifixion is done. 
  • The resurrection is complete.

Yes, we should give thanks and praise for this gift.  But be very clear.  The second that stone rolled away from in front of that tomb the responsibility for the kingdom shifted to us. 

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