6/26 Ruth 2:1-23 Title: Co-Creating Life with God Topics: Chance, Luck, Determination, Grittiness Summary: God does not speak from burning bushes in Ruth but acts through the faithfulness of ordinary human beings
Title: God comes to us Text: Ruth: 1:1-22 Topic: Grief, Hopelessness, Feminism, bisexuality, Faith, Hope When Naomi is too weary to hope, God comes to her through her daughter-in-law, Ruth's steadfast, loyal, love.
Naomi and Ruth live in a culture where women are expected to be connected to men. We all have scripts that our culture or families hand to us. As we co-create our lives with God, we have choices about what to do with those scripts.
Rev. Dr. Carol McEntyre 5/29/2022 Toward a Christian Ethic of Guns- First Baptist Church Columbia MO
This sermon followed the shooting in Uvalde, Texas and talked about lamenting what has been lost, moving past a polarized solution and a potential Christian ethic of guns.
Beginning with Harry Emerson Fosdick's famous sermon, "Shall the fundamentalist Win?", Rev. Kaylor skillfully introduces the question of how do we take the Bible seriously and allows the hearer to wrestle with ideas of how we are to engage Scripture in community and with depth.
Modern life is very busy. Yet, God is uncoercive and does not impose (or rarely imposes). We have a choice to respond or not to respond to God. Moses could have passed by the burning bush rushing on to the next thing and the rich young ruler can just walk away.
