Monday’s thoughts
Sermon for July 29th
“How Does God Create of God and the Lifely Hallows”
The latest Harry Potter book is entitled Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. One of the most difficult aspects of Christian Theology is the spelling out in some cogent detail precisely how we think the “Creator God” creates. Much of our theological language is fuzzy at best. We speak of God as “Creator” but we do not explore what we mean when we say that.
It is my task this Sunday to try to speak of God as Creator and to show how, I think, that happens.
While I haven’t been much of a Harry Potter fan (I read one of the books and saw one of the movies), I have much admired J.K. Rowling. This young woman has captivated generations of young people with her imagination. She has taken the world’s collective mind off its problems (her books are translated into over 60 languages), and has given us a way to think of come of the large struggles of our day in the context of fantasy. She has encouraged young and old to talk together on the challenges Harry faces and she has reminded us what happens to us when we grow up but do not grow old.
I think there is something of the “Creator God” in this. Sunday I will try to lift up examples of Divine Creativity. I will be looking for things as subtle as the birth of a baby in a world of death and war to the, seemingly, miraculous interposition of God into the matrix of our living.
How do you think God creates?
If God “created heaven and earth” did God stop creating (set the universe on its course and step back)? Do you see examples of the Creator God?
I’d love to hear from you. Write me at charlesschuster@fcfumc.net. If you are willing to have others read your response and respond directly to you click on the ‘comments’ box below.
See you next Sunday.
Charles
PS
At 12:15 we will have the second of our summer contemporary worship service. A light lunch will be served at 11:30 in the Fellowship Hall. Pam Everhart and I will preach a dialogue sermon on Luke 16:19-31 and the story of Dives and Lazarus. I will explore the role of Dives and Pam will have us look at Lazarus
