Ruth 2: Commitment and Care

Like a computer program, we have a source code. Our mission statement informs how we operate as a church. Over the next four weeks we will look at each aspect of our mission. We begin with REAL PEOPLE.

We hear another song from the radio this week. This time from Motown Records. Marvin Gaye’s What’s Going On reminds to ask the question to those around us before we get too far down the road.

We begin a new sermon series revisiting our mission statement. One of the things we strive for at CLC is to be real. We want to be authentic and geniune.

We begin a new sermon series on the parables of Jesus. Today we unpack what we need to be looking for in any parable of Jesus and then we spend time looking at the parable of the vineyard owner in Matthew 20.

We make our last stop on “The Journey” to Jerusalem. As Jesus was leaving Jericho, we see Jesus’ commitment to drawing people close to him and a man’s faith who was stronger than all the people following Jesus in that moment.

It is the 4th week of Advent and we are on the cusp of Christmas. Love is the order of the day. I spend some time answering the question, “Why love?”