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Rainbow Steps: Oak Lawn Sermons

Rainbow Steps: Oak Lawn Sermons

著者： Rainbow Steps
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Welcome to Oak Lawn Sermons. Each week you’ll hear the message shared by one of our extraordinary pastors on Sunday morning at Oak Lawn United Methodust Church in Dallas, TX—home of the Rainbow Steps. We’re glad you’re here, and if you’d like to support the work of our church, you can do that at olumc.org/give. Let’s settle in and listen together.Copyright ©2026 Oak Lawn United Methodist Church, All Rights Reserved. キリスト教 スピリチュアリティ マネジメント マネジメント・リーダーシップ 経済学 聖職・福音主義
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  • Where Scripture Becomes Our Story

    Where Scripture Becomes Our Story
    2026/01/25
    What if following Jesus doesn’t make us smaller, but whole?

    In this week’s sermon, Rev. Ryan reflects on Jesus calling the first disciples and Isaiah’s promise of light in places pushed to the margins. He shares how faith is not about shrinking who we are, but stepping into the fullness God already sees in us.

    This message speaks to queer and trans siblings, chosen family, working people, and anyone who has been told they must hide parts of themselves to belong. At Oak Lawn UMC, scripture doesn’t stay on the page. It becomes story in real bodies, real communities, and real acts of love.
    Where light replaces fear, belonging comes before behaving, and healing restores dignity instead of erasing difference.

    Come listen. Come be reminded. Come be whole.

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    16 分
  • The Lens We Carry: How We Learn to See God

    The Lens We Carry: How We Learn to See God
    2026/01/20
    In this sermon, Rev. Rachel invites us to notice the lens we use when we talk about God, Scripture, and one another.

    Many people were raised with a version of faith built on fear, rules, and exclusion. Jesus, though, keeps pointing toward a way shaped by love, freedom, and belonging.

    Rev. Rachel explores how our assumptions shape what we see — in the Bible, in church, and in our neighbors.

    When the lens is punishment, we miss grace. When the lens is control, we lose compassion. But when the lens is love, something opens in us and in our communities.

    This message asks honest questions: What stories about God did we inherit? Which ones still serve life? And how might we see ourselves and others as already beloved?

    If you’ve ever felt hurt, unseen, or boxed in by religion, this sermon offers room to breathe.

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    21 分
  • Beloved Comes First

    Beloved Comes First
    2026/01/16
    This week Rev. Rachel begins a new series on how we read the Bible by starting with one steady truth: we are God’s beloved before anything else.

    Through Jesus’ baptism and the call of Matthew 25, she reminds us that faith is not about proving worth or staying safe. It is about remembering who we are, where Christ already stands, and how love shapes the way we meet a hurting world.

    This reflection connects baptism to real life — to grief, to public harm, to quiet courage — and invites us back to the waters not to repeat a ritual, but to remember our place among the hungry, the displaced, and the loved.

    Beloved first. Then we live like it.

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    18 分
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