Put Back Together (July 15th, 2018)

Our Gospel reading (Mark 6:14-29) sounds more like something out of “Game of Thrones” than the Bible. Our reading from Ephesians 1:3-14 sounds like a bunch of theological abstractions, but it contains one obscure word that the earliest Christians saw as a key to understanding what it means that God saves us in Jesus. In order to tie these things together into an invitation into a life of deeper significance and power, we’ll start with a retelling of an old Twilight Zone episode…