TRINITY SUNDAY

(Isaiah 6:1-13  &  John 3:1-17)

(John 15:9-17)

Authority Issues

Luke 24:13-49, Acts 3:12-26

I want to tell you a contemporary kind of Easter story. It's about four women. They were good friends, and they went on a camping trip together as a kind of spiritual retreat. They had a lot in common. They were all past mid-life, approaching their later years, and they were all beginning to reflect more on their lives:

If I were to summarize what I believe God has been saying to me over the past six weeks through the Scriptures of Lent, this is what I would say: The real purpose of the church; it's real business … is to embody and to teach the Art of Becoming Fully Human.