Rachel's Sermon Stuff

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  • I am the gate

    “When I hear the words, ‘I am the gate’, I picture a a sturdy metal farm gate. But when Jesus’ audience heard these words, they would have thought of something very different. In their time, shepherds often became a gate in order to protect their sheep. At night a shepherd would lie across the gateway…

  • Ephesians Intro

    Intro to Ephesians in Eugene Peterson’s Paraphrase, The Message      What we know about God and what we do for God have a way of getting broken apart in our lives. The moment the organic unity of belief and behavior is damaged in any way, we are incapable of living out the full humanity for…

  • Identity and Attachment

    “Usually we have sunk the roots of our identity into things that, in and of themselves, are part of God’s good creation, yet they are things that are never sufficient ground for our identity…In order to detach ourselves from those things we must yield ourselves to God in love precisely at those points of attachment.”…

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