Rev. Venida opens our month-long Sermon Series, Higher Love, focusing on the theme of Love Your Neighbor. She will explore how we might recenter our capacity to embody love and show God’s love as we honor and prioritize the plight and needs of others.
Read MoreA predominant religious view is that God can’t be around sin, God must separate Godself from humans' sinfulness. Its this very reasoning that led to the religious elite of Jesus' day, isolating themselves from people who they deemed sinners. However, in this sermon Rev. Josh challenges us to let go of certain views of God and cultivate a view of God that recognizes that God never distances Godself from us but we in our shame estrange and hide from God. So Did Jesus come to change God's disposition toward humans or to change humans' disposition toward God? How we answer this just might change how we love ourselves, God, and others?
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