How do you balance responding to needs and responsibilities in your life with your need for rest?

Through Jesus, we are joined together as members of one body.

Sin has real consequences in life and God, perhaps the first to practice “tough love”, doesn’t promise to protect us from that.

We are never outside the bounds of God’s love and God’s ability to redeem.

When you see injustice or wrongdoing, how readily to you call it out?

We have been chosen by the One who is the embodiment of love.

Which aspects of nature compel you to offer praise to the Creator?

Bringing the ark to Jerusalem, the entire company danced before the Lord with all their might, celebrating God's presence.

In this reading, we find two different groups: those who receive the healing power of Jesus and those who resist it.

How often do we view our weaknesses or shortcomings as a gift from God?