Back to Amos though.  Amos is a prophet from the the Southern Kingdom of Judah who is sent to the Northern Kingdom to pronounce judgments against a variety of peoples…

"Consider the verse following our text today in Matthew 5:21 “You have heard that it was said to those of ancient times, ‘you shall not murder;’ and ‘whoever murders shall…

"We are still a people that walk amidst darkness, but Jesus is God and shares the light of God with us. If darkness is present in those things that persecute,…

 "We are in and not of the world- that is what we say. And to be very honest, in these last few weeks as tensions with Iran were on the…

For Mary, to be noticed, is an indicator that she has been deceived.  That many people have been deceived into thinking that God does not notice them.  That the world…

But when Zechariah enters the temple, he peels back that blue curtain symbolic of stability and he finds God. Sometimes we need to look deeply through or maybe around our traditions…

We gather here to worship, so that we are reminded of God’s presence here, in this place, but also everywhere, and in so doing, we reorder our lives. We bear…

The rule of three—a literary tool used so that we might understand how important this is—three times we hear this man’s testimony. And yet, the rule of three is not always…

"So where does this leave us in terms of the core value Building Community and today specifically, Building Unified Community.  For me, the key phrase from the core value is…