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We are living through an extraordinary time right now as our region and the world grapple with the spreading coronavirus—COVID-19. It’s a time of high anxiety with many unknowns.

Health department mandates prevent us from being together physically for worship, but we can still share encouragement with one another and take time to reflect on this moment through the LENS that the Scriptures and our faith provide.

The 12th chapter of Genesis reveals a CROSSROADS in the story of God’s plan to heal the world.

Scripture tells us that God’s earlier ventures with the human creature were not the unqualified successes we might have expected but instead relate a tragic tale of human disobedience, mistrust, hubris, and violence.

By chapter 11 God’s mistake-prone creatures seems to have reached the end of their story and there seems to be no way, through human capacity, to move the story forward.

But then, into this bleak landscape, God breathes a word of promise and new beginning...