Vignettes of Hope: New Liberation by Rev. Fred Harrell

Rev. Fred Harrell begins our Eastertide Sermon Series*, "Vignettes of Hope: A New Way of Seeing", with a sermon from Luke 24 and Acts 10 titled "New Liberation". *In a world that seems to repeat itself with unceasing wars, scapegoating, pride, scarcity mindsets, selfishness, betrayal, and sickness, the resurrection of Christ invites us into new patterns of seeing.  Or as Richard Rohr says, it’s an invitation to say “God, help me see as you see.”  Because of the resurrection, we are invited to embrace Jesus’ bold claim that a new creation has been birthed amidst the old, “Everything has become new!”   But how does this happen?  Our daily calendars and lives are full of habits, hurts, and hangups that can easily distract us from seeing the beauty that God is inviting us to experience in front of our very eyes.  This Eastertide we will exercise the discipline of Easter, hope, and begin to embody and try on this work of New Creation.  Hope that indeed a new creation is on the loose, and we see it in these vignettes we have of the early church from the book of Acts. The liberating, boundary-breaking, life giving, new creation has been unleashed on the world.  How might our community be called to begin to see differently and cultivate that new creation in our midst? All are welcomed, loved and affirmed (🌈) at City Church.