10 Tweets

Here's my sermon from Easter weekend in 10 Tweets, "For those who didn't get the memo," Matthew 28

1/ I don't know about you, but every day I see or hear something that I don't understand & I feel like I didn't get the memo...BOGO

2/ It's serious when we don't feel we got the memo on connecting with God.

3/ Easter is about God making sure the people who didn't get the memo get the memo.

4/ Mary Magdalene is the only clearly identified disciple in the entire resurrection narrative in Matthew.

5/ Mary M typifies the people Jesus intentionally targeted in his ministry--those who didn't get the memo.

6/ Some of the disciples still doubted, even as Jesus was giving them the Great Commission.

7/ The key word in the memo is one in Greek but is translated, "He has risen."

8/ The key word means there is new life and a new body coming. Great news for those facing death or experiencing disability.

9/ Because he is risen we have his teaching to direct our everyday lives. And we have him (I will be with you to the end of the age)

10/ We are a bunch of people who got the memo, responded in faith and now help others get the memo and become followers of Jesus.

10 Tweets

Here's last weekend's sermon in 10 Tweets, Rule of Life: God in My Everything, “Taking it to Work”

1/ There is no hierarchy for God when it comes to our work. There is not "perfect work" (clergy) vs. "permissible work" (everybody else)

2/ Work is sacred activity. God works. God is described as a worker of many professions.

3/ Jesus was a student during his childhood years. I doubt Mary gave him a pass to miss school saying, "You're God. You already know everything."

4/ “Your work is a very sacred matter, God delights in it, and through it he wants to bestow his blessings on you.” (Martin Luther)

5/ God matters at work. Inscribe the sacredness of work on your tools. Set prayer reminders (e.g., laptop password).

6/ Love people at work. God values them supremely. Get to know their needs. Pray for them. Tell them you pray for them.

7/ Pray your to-do list and calendar. Have a "personal strategy session" with God each day. See "Why I STOPPED Doing Quiet Times"

8/ Offer your work as a prayer. St. Benedict: "to work is to pray"

9/ Dorothy Sayer: We tell a drunk carpenter to stop getting drunk...we miss the point if we don't tell him he should be making good tables.

10/ When trust God enough to rest we seek our worth and identity not in our work but in the One we worship.