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Welcome to OdysseyChurch.org
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About us...and our latest newsletter |
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 OdysseyChurch is a unique, innovative online, multi-site, multi-service Metropolitan Community Church affiliated with The Center for Progressive Christianity, reaching out to Georgia's Low Country, Florida's First Coast, Palm Coast, East Coast, Space Coast, Treasure Coast, communities along the St. Johns River and the World Wide Web...with the OdysseyHub in Metro Jacksonville.
We reach out to all people—gay, straight, bisexual, transgendered—from all cultures, traditions, ethnic backgrounds. Believers and sceptics are equally welcomed and valued. Your participation and contribution to our journey makes it all for the better! "The Journey Is Better...Together!"
Here is our latest GuidePost, our Sunday at Six (6:00 pm) newsletter at OdysseyChurchJAX. You can read it or download it; it's in JPEG format. Click below...
For further information or to contact us, write
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. Our OdysseyHUB phone is 904-647-4065. Our HUB is located at the UU Church, 7405 Arlington Expressway, Jacksonville FL 32211, where we also currently worship. Watch us grow!
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The Joy of God Is My Strength |
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 By the Reverend Elder Nancy Wilson
Nehemiah 8: 1-3; 5-6; 8-10; Psalm 19; 1 Corinthians 12: 12-31; Luke 4: 14-21
This week what I would like to do is more “towards a sermon,” than a sermon. Reflections on the lectionary readings, thoughts, images and maybe some points.
The text from Nehemiah is a powerful one from Israel’s history: as the exiles return, and under the leadership of Nehemiah, begin to rebuild the walls of Jerusalem. A eunuch and former employee of the foreign oppressor, Nehemiah leads his people to re-build their lives again. His partner is Ezra the priest – together they help the remnant community rebuild spiritually as well as physically. In this passage, the law has been re-discovered, and all the people assemble, for the first time in a generation or so, as free people, to hear God’s law. As they hear it, they weep uncontrollably – in grief for all that was lost, perhaps in awe of the power and beauty of the text, of what it means to re-connect to God as a people. Nehemiah tells them not to weep, but to seize this as a moment of joy, “for the joy of the Lord is our strength.”
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Read the rest right here
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Written by grant
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Tuesday, 02 February 2010 17:55 |
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 I am one with Spirit1, empowered to bring liberation into my world: freedom from fear and false thinking, freedom from habits and unhealthy living, freedom to live in union with all that is Good2. I am filled with the very breath of God— as is my Master Teacher—energized to be ever one with Perfect Life, Perfect Love, Perfect Substance3..."right here, right now4."
1 Luke 4:18 2Emma Curtis Hopkins, Scientific Christian Mental Practice
3Statement of Being, Divine Science 4Luke 4:19 |
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Last Updated on Tuesday, 02 February 2010 18:08 |
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 The Manifesto of Jesus
Preached by Lead Pastor Grant Lynn Ford at OdysseyChurch (Jacksonville), on Sunday, January 31, 2010, with a slight reference to a sermon preached at the Sunshine Cathedral (Fort Lauderdale) on Sunday, February 11, 2001, by a similar name.
The Foreword
 Wisdom comes to us from Captain Jean-Luc Picard, played by Patrick Stewart in the film Star Trek: Generations. “Time is a companion that goes with us on a journey. It reminds us to cherish each moment, because it will never come again. What we leave behind is not as important as how we have lived.”
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Rest of the sermon here
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 Welcome to OdysseyChurch, the innovative online and multi-site Metropolitan Community Church forming in Jacksonville. We have a bright future with an outreach to match. But we're still 'in formation' as we gather together our base. "We would like to hear from you," says Lead Pastor Grant Lynn Ford. "And we look forward to meeting you soon!"
 "You are welcome here, whether you're gay, straight, bisexual, transgendered, no matter your faith tradition or background or whether you even consider yourself a person of faith," says Teaching Pastor Jim Merritt. Jim is also provisional pastor of Trinity MCC, Gainesville, one of our ministry partners (along with First Coast MCC, St. Augustine, and Sunshine Cathedral, Fort Lauderdale).
"Odyssey brings a fresh breeze of joy to northeast Florida," says Pastoral Care Minister Barbara Dubberly. Minister Barbara is a Jacksonville native and long-time participant in its faith community. "It's becoming a home for a variety of people, and a real base for future outreach."
We currently meet Sunday at Six (6:00 pm) in the Unitarian Universalist Church of Jacksonville at 7405 Arlington Expressway. The OdysseyHUB office (open by appointment) can be reached at 904-647-4065 or by writing
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Look for us at a location near you soon and keep up with us on the web.
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