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10:30 a.m. Sunday Worship
Join us for Coffee Hour after the service.

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Thought of the Week

Yet evil does not – cannot –
undermine or overcome the love of God.
God forgives,
and calls all of us to confess our fears and failings
with honesty and humility.
God reconciles,
and calls us to repent the part we have played in
damaging our world, ourselves, and each other.
God transforms,
and calls us to protect the vulnerable,
to pray for deliverance from evil,
to work with God for the healing of the world,
that all might have abundant life.
We sing of grace.

A Song of Faith

Judas was very upset that Jesus ... Matthew 26:14-16 PDF Print E-mail

Judas was very upset that Jesus didn't do things the way he, Judas, thought they should have been done. Judas wanted a real revolution, an overthrow of the Roman power, an opportunity to allow Israel to be a power unto itself. He willingly betrayed Jesus.

I have found that my greatest disappointments are when people have not lived up to my expectations. It's not that others were bad, evil, nasty or mean. It is just that they did not do the things I had expected them to do. I like, Judas, had my own ideas, my own dreams, my own expectations. How dare others not live up to them!

Life can only exist through diversity. Allowing others to freely choose their own course of action is appropriate. Expecting others to live up to my expectations is not. Hopefully I can learn to not foist my expectations on the lives of others.

 


Matthew 26:14-16

    Then one of the twelve, who was called Judas Iscariot, went to the chief priests and said, "What will you give me if I betray him to you?" They paid him thirty pieces of silver.  And from that moment he began to look for an opportunity to betray him.