Temptation is Not Moral Failure
Amy Oden Insights Blog for Church of the Resurrection James 1: 13-15 I don’t think of myself as being tempted very often, but that’s only...
Greening Power of God
Amy Oden Church of the Resurrection Insights Blog I don’t know what you were taught about why Jesus came, but my experience says...
Stories
Church of the Resurrection Insights Blog Amy Oden Let me tell you a story: My husband died in October and I’m learning again that grief...
Tree of Life
Church of the Resurrection Insights Blog Amy Oden Proverbs 15:4 Wholesome speech is a tree of life, but dishonest talk breaks the spirit....
A Meal
Amy Oden Insights Blog for Church of the Resurrection Luke 22 What if we thought of our faith lives as comprised primarily of eating...
Flow of Forgiveness
Amy Oden Church of the Resurrection Insights Blog The struggle to forgive is a very human one. Our species seems to have built into it a...
Doubt as Holy Invitation
Church of the Resurrection Insights Blog Amy Oden I’m so grateful for this theme of doubt in Pastor Adam’s current sermon series! One of...
Open-Handed Life
Amy Oden Church of the Resurrection Insights Blog Do you want to live tight-fisted or open-handed? Close your hand into a fist. Now...
Holy Unfolding
Amy Oden Church of the Resurrection Insights Blog Galatians 5:22-23 As I sit at the bedside of my beloved husband, Perry, in these final...
Near Strangers
Amy Oden Insights Blog for Church of the Resurrection Ephesians 2:11-20 Sometimes it’s harder to welcome the “near stranger” than the...