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Rooted in Grace
AFTER CENTURIES OF handling and mishandling, most religious words have become so shopworn nobody’s much interested any more. Not so with grace, for some reason. Mysteriously, even derivatives like gracious and graceful still have some of the bloom left. Grace is something you can never get but only be given. There’s no way to earn it or deserve it or bring it about any more than you can deserve the taste of raspberries and cream or earn good looks or…
Reaching in love
“If the body is truly the dwelling place of God, a holy ground, then all our relationship are transformed. When we meet and touch others, we do so with even more respect as we realize their life is holy.” ~from Essential Writings by Jean Vanier Watching over each other in love requires us to learn the stories of our neighbors. In our community we do this by joining and attending a Kitchen Table. Every week people gather in homes,…
Growing in Faith
“You lack one thing; go, sell what you own, and give the money to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; then come, follow me.” Mark 10.22 The one thing you lack is whatever you need to let go of. Once you have unclenched your fists from your money there is your health and your family, your faith, your assurance, your feeling good. The Beloved waits for you, while you are encumbered with whatever you’d rather have than…
How Deep?
The Sanctuary, Social Hall and our entire campus are fruits of the extravagant generosity of those who have gone before us. They lived with sincere faith. We are called to “Guard the good treasure entrusted to [us], with the help of the Holy Spirit living in us.” Our extravagant generosity will share this treasure with the generations to come. What difference does extravagant generosity make? Think of a time in which you witnessed extravagant generosity or were the recipient…
Toward Sunday
We begin a five-week worship series this Sunday called How Deep? This worship series will invite reflection on the significance of our Baptismal identities. The United Methodist Book of Worship states, “Baptism is an act that looks back with gratitude on what God’s grace has already accomplished, it is here and now an act of God’s grace, and it looks forward to what God’s grace will accomplish in the future….Baptism anticipates a lifetime of…deeper experiences of God, acts of Christian…
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