Get on Your Boots. Yeah, you.

The past three weeks have marked a really special time at Northeast Community Church. We have been working through a new message series called, "Get On Your Boots." It's been our chance to talk biblically about what it means to be the church specifically to the poor and oppressed. Now, that's just a little bit of Christian-ese to say that we have been having a conversation about getting on our boots and doing_some_work. I wish there was a way to "shout" on here without ALL CAPS. ALL CAPS always seems so angry to me, but I don't want to shout this angrily, I want to shout it excitedly. To have, for the past four weeks, been taking time each week to talk about our scriptural mandate and examples of how to connect, care and love all members of our society gets me excited. When I get excited I shout. My voice also rises to wholly unpleasant shrill ranges, but that's a whole other story.

We still have one more week this upcoming Sunday, where we will be talking about the Actualization of it all -- the idea of "a full life in the emptiest of places." If you're around, check it out. We're at West Rocks Middle School and meet at 10:30am on Sundays. Don't worry, I promise not to shout too much. ;)