The story of Jesus’ baptism and the Spirit driving him out is certainly brief in the Gospel of Mark but there is plenty of drama. With the clearing away of details, we find ourselves focusing on Jesus. This is the meaning of the season of Lent. The opening verses of Mark are demanding our attention, […]
Join us in person or online at 10:00 AM. Elisha saw an astonishing thing take place right before his eyes when Elijah, the greatest of the prophets did not die but was swept away into the heavens by a chariot of fire. The student was so devastated he tore his clothes in two. The next […]
Join us this Sunday at 10:00 AM for a special Sunday, where our Young Adult resident, Jonathan Townley, will be preaching. We will also have a reading from “This Here Flesh: Spirituality, Liberation, and the Stories that Make Us” by Cole Arthur Riley, the first of the writers we will continue to feature throughout the […]
“I know who you are, the Holy One of God.” Mark 1: 24b We need healing. One of the beauties of being a Christ follower is recognizing that we are wounded, and that Christ is the healer of our every ill. When we can recognize our own woundedness and accept the vulnerability that comes from […]
Join us this Sunday in person or online at 10:00 am Our understanding of God and God’s all-embracing grace can be so limited, and when this is the case then so too can our own efforts to be God’s love in the world. This was certainly a problem for Jonah, a preacher who didn’t want […]
“You are my Son, the Beloved, with you I am well pleased.” Mark 1:11b “But the end is reconciliation; the end is redemption; the end is the creation of the beloved community. It is this type of spirit and this type of love that can transform opposers into friends. It is this type of understanding […]
In our baptism, we are claimed by God, we are reassured that we are God’s Beloved. Let us gather this Sunday to remember the mark of baptismal water upon our foreheads and live into the grace and abundance that is God given. Remembering our baptism, is a renewal of our awareness of God’s faithful love […]
With Christmas Eve behind us and a new year merely hours away in our present time, we find Mary 2,000 years ago with a Baby Jesus only 40 days old as she brings him to the temple. There Mary is met by Simeon and Anna, an old man and a prophetess whose deepest longings have […]
Christmas Eve: Christ Be Our Light In a quieter spirit we sing carols, listen to the beauty of the oboe, and come to the communion table to receive the bread of life and the cup of blessing. If the weather cooperates, we will take our candles to our front steps and sing “Silent Night” as a […]
Christmas Eve: Christ Be Our Light Throughout the season of Advent, we have lit the candles of hope, peace, joy, and love. Tonight, we light the Christ candle to honor that Christ is our Light. We will raise our voices to sing Christmas carols accompanied by brass instruments, listen to the Scripture lessons of the […]
This Christmas, we extend a warm invitation to you and yours to join us for a celebration filled with joy, music, and reflection. Our Christmas Eve services are designed to create lasting memories and embrace the true spirit of the season. Event Schedule: 🕓 4:00 pm – Children and Family Worship Join us for a […]
The Air Love Breathes is Freedom This a strange fourth Sunday of Advent being that it happens to share the calendar with Christmas Eve and might even shrink a bit in its shadow. But it would do us well to still light the fourth candle on Sunday morning and listen to Mary. She is, after […]
