Liturgy With open arms you welcome all who call on your name— who acknowledge you as Lord, and look to you in faith. No one stands outside the circle of your mercy and love. We come to offer you our worship— to declare that you are our God, and that we are your people, called, chosen, and loved like no […]
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Liturgy Reflection & Benediction 08.06.2017
Liturgy The table of Jesus is our place of gathering. Here, you are welcome and wanted. Here, there is a place set for you. Come all who are hungry for the bread of life. Whose souls cry out for healing. Come all who are weary, who worry, Who ache with the tiredness of living. Come all you who are lost, […]
Liturgy Reflection & Benediction 07.30.2017
Liturgy Each person in this room is a kaleidoscope of feelings, experiences, thoughts and skills. Always changing, and always showing a different aspect of God’s creativity. Each person brings a worldview so rich only their Creator can truly understand it. Our collective body is beautiful in its many parts, but is made truly magnificent when it comes together to seek […]
Liturgy Reflection & Benediction 07.16.2017
Liturgy Welcome, welcome, welcome, we welcome all that comes to us today. We are made of our experiences. Those that teach us joy, those that teach us pain, and those that teach us comfort. We are made of times that teach us when we need to move, and when we need to be still. We welcome the loving presence of […]
Liturgy Reflection & Benediction 07.09.2017
Liturgy This morning, as we gather in community, may we notice you in the smallest of ways. May we hear you in our breath, in our movements, and in our songs. May we see you in our rituals, in our prayers, and in the bread and the wine. May we find you in each other, in our conversations, and in […]
Liturgy Reflection & Benediction 07.02.2017
Liturgy Welcome, welcome, welcome. we welcome everything that comes to us today. With open palms, we welcome the discomfort of the heat, the chaos of our schedules, the burden of our daily tasks. We are free to welcome these things because we are free to be fully alive and messy and chaotic. We are truly loved by our God in […]
Liturgy Reflection & Benediction 06.25.2017
Liturgy You, who are gathered here in this place, consider for a moment. Why are you here? What do you desire in this place? What are you looking for? To get here, you got up and got dressed instead of sleeping in, you passed places that serve great food and varietal coffees, and you kept coming toward this place instead. […]