29 APR 2024 · God is love. For those who abide in love, remain in love, and invest in love, and inject love into their being . . . abide in God. And God abides in them. We invite God in, and God’s abiding love takes on new life in us. We could say, “Every time we love, or feel love, or share love, or every time we engage in loving acts . . . we become that which comes from God. We reflect God. Because we are what we eat. And since God is love, we are love. -Rev. Barrett Owen

22 APR 2024 · The God of the Universe, in all God’s great mystery and unknowing, that God receives us out of (and comes to us in) love. -Rev. Barrett Owen

15 APR 2024 · People don’t really believe they’re made from God’s light. When it comes to their own private relationship with God . . . they carry this myth that they’re made from the darkness. That they’re evil. But that’s a lie. You are a reflection of God’s light . . . it’s inside of us . . . and Jesus died on the cross so we could see it and feel it and claim it and shine it! -Rev. Barrett Owen

8 APR 2024 · We must be followers of the light. God is our light. God is that which we follow and how we see. There’s no darkness in him either. And if we’re going to follow it . . . we must live in a way that makes us able to absorb and reflect that light . . . which means there can’t be darkness in us either. And yet sin is darkness. -Rev. John Daniels

3 APR 2024 · What makes Holy Week holy is that it bridges death and life. It says that which dies eventually lives. And if things want to truly live, then they’re going to have to die. Holy Week captures the essence of every aspect of the human condition and ends with Jesus overcoming the grave. You could even say by his resurrection he turns graves into gardens. -Rev. Barrett Owen

3 APR 2024 · What makes Holy Week holy is that it bridges death and life. It says that which dies eventually lives. And if things want to truly live, then they’re going to have to die. Holy Week captures the essence of every aspect of the human condition and ends with Jesus overcoming the grave. You could even say by his resurrection he turns graves into gardens. -Rev. Barrett Owen

26 MAR 2024 · What makes Holy Week holy is that it bridges death and life. It says that which dies eventually lives. And if things want to truly live, then they’re going to have to die. Holy Week captures the essence of every aspect of the human condition and ends with Jesus overcoming the grave. You could even say by his resurrection he turns graves into gardens. -Rev. Barrett Owen

19 MAR 2024 · John https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V-VqmVGeqxQ&t=748s is a passage we don’t often quote but we should: “Father, glorify your name.” Then a voice came for heaven, “I have glorified it, and I will glorify it again.” Here is the voice of God speaking to Jesus saying that a way has been made for us all to move our shame to glory. But the way is going to include death. -Rev. Barrett Owen

12 MAR 2024 · In his shame, Nicodemus shows up to Jesus in the middle of the night wanting answers to questions he does not know how to ask. He is ashamed of the current trajectory of the Pharisees, but he can’t name it in the light. He’s burdened by shame. Jesus offers life altering answers to his questions but the story does not say if Nicodemus heeds Jesus’ advice. The story just ends making me wonder, “Can we really let go of shame?” -Rev. Barrett Owen

4 MAR 2024 · Jesus overthrows the tables in Jerusalem’s Temple. He makes a whip of cords and drives the people and animals out too. There are a lot of things we keep stocked in our Temple, our body, soul, and mind that need to be cleared out. Jesus demonstrates in life what needs to also happen inside of each of us. -Rev. Barrett Owen