This week we consider the age between youth and “middle age”—the young(ish) adults trying to establish their lives and find their place in the world amidst many unique roles and stressors that have come about for the aging Millennial generation. There is something to learn for ALL of us in how they are navigating this time, and maybe we can consider what church has to offer this often-absent group of people in our communities.
Our church’s 2019 Stewardship Campaign has the theme “Giving through the Ages: Stewardship is for Everyone”, and it explores what we all have to learn from each other in every stage of life beginning this week with our children and youth. Each sermon is supplemented by these videos interviewing members and friends of our congregation. The video for the group this week is linked here:
This sermon looks at the prelude to the story of Exodus–at how Moses was born and how God used ordinary people to set huge things in motion on behalf of oppressed people. Maybe you too could accomplish something bigger than you imagine by being faithful to God’s call in small things.
This sermon uses the pivotal and memorable story of Jacob wrestling with God (getting his new name “Israel”—meaning I have struggled with God and prevailed) and considers the ways that we too wrestle with God in our real lives.
This week we move forward in Genesis from the first created family to the first family of God’s covenant: Abraham and Sarah. Well past child-bearing age, they have been waiting years for a promised family, but when is it coming? How can they trust that the promise is true? And how do they keep hope alive and believe when it seems just “too good to be true”?
