Religion & Spirituality
We believe in God. We don’t just say this in the creed, we believe that when we gather God is present and at work in us and in the world. God gave us the world he created, He gave us life, gives us direction, he gives healing and rescue, He gives new insight by revealing and correcting, He gives blessing and gives justice. We believe in a God who gives. It’s the mystery we call grace. But in a culture like ours, where everything is for sale, gifts have strings attached, everyone feels under-appreciated, and so many are in debt to something—the simple announcement that we are saved by a God who gives, is almost impossible to hear, let alone understand. But when God’s giving meets real human sin, it is salvation. About 30 years after the death and resurrection of Jesus, and in his old age, st. Paul wrote to the younger Timothy, about how his life was changed by the God who gives. What God has done in Paul’s life was almost unbelievable. God took the Church’s public enemy #1 and completely turned his life upside down--in an act of pure generosity and grace. In the next weeks we’ll be studying what Paul’s letters to Timothy in a series we’re calling “Grateful”, encountering the mystery of God’s grace and learning how to live on it.