For the third Sunday after Epiphany, Rev. Cari’s sermon touched on both I Corinthians 7:29-31 and Mark 1:14-20. She was playing with the pandemic “categories” of interruption and disruption, and recalled the graphic the Rev. David Robertson introduced to Crossroads in the spring. (The image is attached as a pdf.)

Then she moved to a look at both texts, and the insistence of both Biblical writers that Jesus’ life ushers in a new “regime” called the reign of God. The status quo is on the move, with Jesus!

She told a story from her week about her participation in a round-table with faith leaders from 20 traditions hosted by BC government officials regarding the vaccine roll-out.

Then she invited the congregation right into the “mind-shift” of seeing Jesus as a disruption who will reorder our priorities and habits. Drawn on by the hope of what Walter Brueggemann calls “an enduring Sabbath of joy and wellbeing,” she notched up the urgency of the call.

She then closed with a recent poem called “Follow” by Steve Garnass-Holmes.