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Peace of God

As we continue the Advent season, Matt Inman reflects on how the love of God brings us the peace of God [Philippians 4:4-9]. Reflection Who has loved you really well and helped you appreciate your real self? Who in your life is out beyond their comfort zone right now...

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Grateful

Gideon Tsang reflects on how full we are of gratitude and what questions we can ask that lead us to gratitude [Psalm 103]. Reflection How has God healed us? How does contentment work in my life? What does it mean that God's love is steadfast and expansive? Resources...

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Practice Gratitude

Gideon Tsang reflects on how we would be changed people if we practiced gratitude collectively as a community [Psalm 100]. Reflection What would it look like to create out of gratitude? How can you be present with gratitude entering into this week? Resources Video -...

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Liturgy Reflection & Benediction 10.30.11

Liturgy Reflection & Benediction 10.30.11

Liturgy Heavenly Father, our Provider and Healer, we come to you and thank you, hoping to find words worthy of your praise. 1 When the LORD restored the fortunes of Zion, we were like those who dreamed. 2 Our mouths were filled with laughter, our tongues with songs of...

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Liturgy Reflection & Benediction 11.28.10

Liturgy Reflection & Benediction 11.28.10

Liturgy In this Advent season, we give you thanks, our Father in heaven, and we praise you through our Lord Jesus Christ. You promised him as our Savior to a humanity gone astray. His truth is a light for those who seek, his power gives strength to the weak, his...

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To Those Who Came Before

To Those Who Came Before

Enter his gates with thanksgiving and his courts with praise give thanks to him and praise his name.  For the LORD is good and his love endures forever; his faithfulness continues through all generations. Ps. 100 As a community blessed with abundance, it is...

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