Here we seek to grow.
Here we seek to be courageous allies.
Here we seek to be open and affirming.
Here we seek to honor each other’s story.
Here we seek to welcome each other’s mistakes.
On this seventh Sunday of Eastertide, we continue our theme of Resurrection Stories. Household keys are the anchor image for this series. Our faith holds the “key to our own resurrection.” We are invited to name the things that have us “locked up” in our lives and to “unlock” our own resurrection – finding ways to live more fully and more free.
The Spirit is alive and moves among us as it did in the early church! We come to the end of our series, “Resurrection Stories,” in which we have celebrated that new life is possible, that transformation can happen no matter how dead we have felt inside or how difficult our circumstances might be. Today we will commit ourselves to some important and concrete goals for our mission in the world. We are a church called to mobilize to alleviate suffering and proclaim resurrection hope through the power of the Holy Spirit!
Rise up in us and we will rise
From death into a newfound life:
From bondage freed, from harm released,
From illness healed, as one in peace.
When all is lost our hearts are warmed,
Our hope restored, our lives transformed.
Alleluia, alleluia, alleluia!
Weekly Scripture – Acts 2:1-8 & 14-17 & Romans 8:18-27
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