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AUDIO: Red Letter Living - Part 1: Blessed are the Poor in Spirit

Read MoreThis week begins the start of an eight week series on the Beatitudes. The Beatitudes form the prophetic prelude to Jesus' most important sermon, the Sermon on the Mount. Often times, when we think of the Beatitudes we define them as "nice things Jesus said that I don't really understand what they mean." However, we can be sure that the Beatitudes are not commonsense platitudes. In fact, they are the very opposite; they are radical and subversive. The Beatitudes undermine the assumptions of power and might with which Babylon is built upon. What Jesus says in the first Beatitude is shocking: "Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven." Jesus is announcing the Kingdom of Heaven is completely open for those no good at being spiritual. This was just the opposite of what people thought. Jesus isn’t telling us to be poor at spiritual. He is simply making an announcement of good news for the spiritually poor: that this is a kingdom for those who are poor at being spiritual. From: Sunday, February 7, 2010

AUDIO: The Jesus Way Saves

Read MoreAs Christians, we talk a lot about Jesus being "The Way". This is a metaphor given to us directly from Jesus in the Sermon on the Mount. But we have a tendency to over literalize Jesus' metaphor of "the way." Jesus is not primarily the way to a place, but rather, Jesus is the way to be. The Jesus way of living saves us from the dehumanized way of living, especially the way inherited in the dominant script of the "American Dream." The American Way of consumerism is almost irresistibly seductive. But the American Way is also absolutely destructive. it destroys our soul and erases the image of God from our being. The only viable alternative is to adopt the Jesus Way. But to adopt this alternative lifestyle based on the fundamentally different values as presented in the Sermon on the Mount is radical, and it can only be entered through a daring leap of faith. From: Friday, February 5, 2010

AUDIO: Faith Life Weekend 2010 - Session 5: Escaping Evil

Read MoreThis is our Father's world, but our Father's world has been invaded by a terrible evil. In the Lord's Prayer, we address this evil as we pray, "Lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil." We understand that our journey through life necessitates encounters with temptation. But we ask God to not overestimate our capacity and to provide some detours. As we pray to not be lead into trouble and to be delivered from the evil one, we expect divine intervention in our lives that we would not have had otherwise. We know that we cannot expect to live a life entirely free from tribulation, but we believe that Jesus has authority over all trials and tribulation. From: Sunday, January 31, 2010

AUDIO: Faith Life Weekend 2010 - Session 4: Living In Forgiveness

Read MoreOne of the mistaken notions about sin is what we sin against. Ultimately we don't sin against a commandment. When we sin we sin against a person: God, others, ourselves. The forgiveness of sins is therefore a personal matter, not a legal matter. The solution for a world gone wrong in sin is forgiveness. God forgives because God is love. In the Lord's Prayer, Jesus teaches us to pray the God "Forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us." Whether we look to the Lord's Prayer or Jesus' death upon the cross or his resurrection or the great creeds of the church, we are never far from the theme of forgiveness - for if Christianity isn't about forgiveness, it's about nothing at all. From: Sunday, January 31, 2010

This Week at WOLC

Open Door Food Kitchen
Tuesday, Feb 09, 2010 9:00 am
Men's Fraternity
Tuesday, Feb 09, 2010 7:00 pm
Premarriage Group
Tuesday, Feb 09, 2010 7:00 pm
Circle of Friends Red Letter Living Group
Wednesday, Feb 10, 2010 10:00 am
Wednesday Prayer Chapel
Wednesday, Feb 10, 2010 12:00 pm