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Toward Sunday
This week we begin a new six-week worship series on practicing Christian disciplines to stay in love with God. We’ll celebrate Pentecost this coming Sunday and turn to Acts 2.1-21 as we consider Public Worship as a practice for staying in love with God. Matt settled into his study leave last week and began writing on our church’s story and Grace. He’ll continue working on those themes this coming week and we’re grateful for your continued support as he continues working on…
Toward Sunday
Birth Stories will be our theme this week as we conclude our worship series, This Christian Life. Our worship series is inspired by the story telling curated by Ira Glass on National Public Radio’s This American Life. Each week we have looked at a theme related to the Christian life through the lens of several stories. The stories varied each week. Some were rooted in our own community’s story and some came from people far away. Some were humorous and some were…
Pentecost Poetry
Something immense within,a seed bursting its case,a mother with child,the only passengerin the little boatof your life,a whole world’s worthof divine lovepent up in you,vast, given, swelling with heat and beauty,your own particular fire—let it out or it will sear you!Let it out! by Steve Garnaas-Holmes (5.16.13) Image by Alexander Sadoyan “Pentecost”
Toward Sunday
We conclude our worship series, Missio Dei, this Sunday with a celebration of Pentecost. Pentecost is the fiftieth day of the Easter season. The earliest church completed forty days of ongoing teaching from the Risen One, followed by a ten-day prayer vigil. On the day of Pentecost, the church, by the power of the Holy Spirit, began to move. Worship will be a celebration of Pentecost. Our focus will be on the hospitality and hope offered in the practice of worship.…