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Podcast: West End UMC Podcast Audio Podcast
Episode: Lift Up Your Eyes
Description: Today is the third Sunday for our summer sermon series, “Rise and Shine,” examining a number of passages that offer light as an image of God’s presence and grace. The reading for today is from Isaiah’s word of hope and good news to the people in exile. It is a very appropriate reading for Juneteenth, a remembrance of the day in 1865 when the last of the slaves got the good news that they had been freed. These moments when God breaks through are important for our faith. We have much work to do, though, as demonstrated by so much rac...