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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...

Feeling Alive

Romans 8:1-11 Church of the Resurrection Insights Blog Amy Oden Think back over the last week or so. When did you feel alive? Really...

Wilderness. Rest. Nourishment.

by Amy Oden Commentary on 1 Kings 19:4-8 for Workingpreacher.org Wilderness, rest, nourishment. These are the restoring practices that...

Embodied Presence

Workingpreacher.org Commentary for July 11, 2021 2 Samuel 6:1-5, 12b-19 Amy Oden While the account of David’s ascendance is the stuff of...

Practicing Lament

Amy Oden WorkingPreacher.org Commentary 2 Samuel 1:1, 17-27 David’s mourning cry at the death of Saul and Jonathan is raw and painful. As...