QUOTES FOR REFLECTION   “The Name Bryan Johnson may not ring a bell....The 46-year-old tech millionaire has made the rounds time and again on social media for going to extreme lengths to curb the effects of aging in a longevity project called Blueprint, which he calls an ‘algorithm’ for preserving his body. Johnson takes more than 100 supplements a day, submits himself to constant medical assessments, keeps to a strict diet that prohibits any food after 11 a.m., goes to bed at 8:30 p.m., and pursues experiments with a dizzying array of treatments….” ~Rolling Stone interview with biohacke ..read more

QUOTES FOR REFLECTION “To any normal person, the practice of communion is one of the most bizarre things that Christians do. Jesus’ cannibalistic tendencies offer explicit evidence that Jesus is not God.” ~Marshall Brain, Atheist blogger   “The story about the initiation of young novices is as much to be detested as it is well known. An infant covered over with meal, that it may deceive the unwary, is placed before him who is to be stained with their rites: this infant is slain by the young pupils... Thirstily – O horror! they lick up its blood; eagerly they divide its limbs. By this vi ..read more

QUOTES FOR REFLECTION   “…the more I examine the universe and the details of its architecture, the more evidence I find that the universe in some sense must have known we were coming.” ~Freeman John Dyson (1923-2020), theoretical physicist and mathematician   “If the experience of science teaches anything, it’s that the world is very strange and surprising. The many revolutions in science have certainly shown that.”   “[The] destinies of human beings and of the whole universe lie together in the world of God’s new creation…. In Christian thinking, the seed event from which this ..read more

SERMON PASSAGE John 13:1-17, 31-35 (ESV) 1 Now before the Feast of the Passover, when Jesus knew that his hour had come to depart out of this world to the Father, having loved his own who were in the world, he loved them to the end. 2 During supper, when the devil had already put it into the heart of Judas Iscariot, Simon’s son, to betray him, 3 Jesus, knowing that the Father had given all things into his hands, and that he had come from God and was going back to God, 4 rose from supper. He laid aside his outer garments, and taking a towel, tied it around his waist. 5&nbs ..read more

QUOTES FOR REFLECTION   “If you live for people’s acceptance, you will die from their rejection.” ~Lecrae, rapper and producer   “Care about what other people think and you will always be their prisoner.” ~Attributed to Lao Tzu, 6th century B.C. Chinese philosopher   “I can’t tell you the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everyone.” ~Ed Sheeran, singer-songwriter   “You wouldn’t worry so much about what others think of you if you realized how seldom they do.” ~Eleanor Roosevelt (1884-1962), diplomat, activist, and First Lady   “He that hung ..read more

QUOTES FOR REFLECTION   “If you live for people’s acceptance, you will die from their rejection.” ~Lecrae, rapper and producer   “Care about what other people think and you will always be their prisoner.” ~Attributed to Lao Tzu, 6th century B.C. Chinese philosopher   “I can’t tell you the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everyone.” ~Ed Sheeran, singer-songwriter   “You wouldn’t worry so much about what others think of you if you realized how seldom they do.” ~Eleanor Roosevelt (1884-1962), diplomat, activist, and First Lady   “He that hung ..read more

QUOTES FOR REFLECTION “One of the challenges that we have collectively as a society is that in this country, we do victory great, we do success great, we do power great. We do not do shame very well; we do not do guilt very well. We don’t own up to our mistakes. And the absence of shame is what makes us vulnerable to discrimination and bigotry and abuse of power…If you see two people who’ve loved each other for fifty years, if you ask them what the secret is; they’ve learned how to say I’m sorry to one another…” ~Bryan Stevenson (1959-present), lawyer, activist, and author of Just Mercy &nbs ..read more

QUOTES FOR REFLECTION SERMON PASSAGE Galatians 5:13-26 (ESV ..read more

QUOTES FOR REFLECTION   “You are happy when God blesses you, but not as happy as God is.” ~C.H. Spurgeon (1834-1892), famed London pastor   “Wash the plate, not because it is dirty nor because you are told to wash it, but because you love the one who will use it next.” ~Mary Teresa Bojaxhiu (1910-1997), a.k.a. “Mother Teresa”   “Christ did not die to redeem us in part. …[W]e must understand that God is after…any and all sin that would hinder the whole person from serving God fully and freely.” ~Jackie Hill Perry, writer and hip-hop artist   “Nothing in history or in the ..read more

QUOTES FOR REFLECTION   “I was given eyes to see societal ‘beauty’ in a new way; ‘beauty’ was exposed for what it really was. Totally empty and not beautiful at all.   “I saw how societal ‘beauty’ ran on insecurity and shame. And that it was all on purpose. Making women feel like their face, or body, or skin is ‘wrong’ so they’ll adhere to a diet or buy a product to ‘fix’ themselves. In short, I was awakened to the black hole that is American ‘beauty,’ its gravity impacting the minds, the hearts, the souls of so many girls and women.” ~Melissa L. Johnson, Soul-Deep Beauty: Fighting ..read more