This is the familiar story of the Good Samaritan. This was acrtually extremely scandalous for Jesus to use this imagery. Amy Jill Levine, Jewish New Testament Scholar at Vanderbilt, suggests that the image is someone coming to your rescue, that was so detested, that you would just as soon die rather than be helped by him. Wow.
This is an excellent text for us to examine in this most hostile of times. How do we learn to listen to each other in a way to understand rather than to hate and reject?
Advent 3: Choose Joy
Adent 2: Proclaim the Good News Because God's Word Endures Forever
Advent 1 -- Putting Scripture Front and Center
Who Picked This Scripture ? God Did!
Hosea: God has not given up on us ...
David puts God at the Center
Elijah confronts Ahab
Ruth -- God's Loving Kindness within Displacement
Deuteronomy 5 -- Covenant Relationship
Exodus 3: 1-15 -- Called by God
Genesis 32: 22-30 -- Jacob Wrestles with God
Genesis 18 and 21 -- "All things are possible: Laughing in Despair and Joy"
Genesis 1 -- "In the Beginning" (September 13, 2015)
Finally, Why Hilltop?
Then, Why the Wesleyan Understanding of "Church"?
First, Why God?
June 21, 2015 -- 9:00 Service -- Father's Day and Emanuel AME
June 7th, 2015 -- Communion II
May 31, 2015 -- Graduate Recognition Sunday
May 24, 2015 -- Pentecost and Confirmation Sunday
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