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Worship with Grace on Sunday, September 3, 2023

Moses Removes his Sandals before the Burning Bush, Mosaic, Church of San Vitale, Ravenna, Italy, ca. 525. Source of illustration: Anonymous. Burning Bush, from Art in the Christian Tradition, a project of the Vanderbilt Divinity Library, Nashville, TN. https://diglib.library.vanderbilt.edu/act-imagelink.pl?RC=55945 [retrieved August 7, 2023]. Original source: https://www.flickr.com/photos/paullew/9304183235.

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What is in a Name? Living out our call to transform lives through God’s Grace (by Rev. Geoffrey Simmins)

God seeks us as actively as we might seek God. In a thoughtful article written for the Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A., Ethan Raath suggests that God is like a persistent wooer, calling us into a loving relationship. He writes: “Grace is God’s goodwill and favor reaching out to redeem us. God’s grace is like that—God ‘woos’ us, calls us into a relationship of love. God’s grace draws us to God, justifies us by faith in Jesus Christ, and sanctifies and empowers us by the Holy Spirit.” (1 Ethan Raath, “Grace to You,” Presbyterian Mission Agency, accessed August 14, 2023,...

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