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To Find the Child
All are welcome to worship with us at 5 & 11 pm on Christmas Eve. Our 5pm worship will be geared toward families of all ages and stages. Our 11 pm worship will include communion. At both we will hear the Christmas story, light candles and sing. To find the child one must see the star. To see the star one must go into the darkness, the pain, the fear, the emptiness, the hidden weeping, the heart’s dark wounds. Only…
Dark and Light.
It is hard to find any “good news” this week. Followers of Jesus may recognize this phrase “good news” from the beginning of the Gospel of Mark: “The beginning of the good news of Jesus Christ…” (Mark 1.1.). “To help his readers understand their troubled situation, Mark proclaims Jesus. But to understand Jesus, he looks back to the Scriptures of Israel. Indeed, we cannot understand Christian faith adequately without understanding the Jewish roots of that faith. Whatever we think God…
Toward Sunday
This week we begin the season of Advent. Advent is the time in which the church waits for the mystery of Christmas to be born. Sometimes we talk about this as waiting for “the light to illumine the dark.” As I write this the light is fading in the sky outside of the church and the clouds are illumined from beneath by the setting sun. Darkness is coming soon. Darkness is often feared rather than welcomed. But what if there…
Toward Sunday
We begin a four-week worship series this Sunday called The Advent Way. Our worship series will invite reflection on how the Advent way prepares us for the beauty and mystery of Christmas. Worship will be rooted in the book of Isaiah and Matthew’s Gospel. A note on Advent from A Guide to Prayer for All Who Seek God by Norman Shawchuck & Rueben P Job: Advent marks the beginning of the church year and lays before us the pathway of…