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Liturgy Reflection & Benediction 09.14.14

Liturgy Good God, Creator of the world, draw us into prayer and celebration as we gather to remember the gifts of your earth and the stewardship you have entrusted to us as tillers and tenders in your image. We know that in the gathering of your people, power is present among us; your Holy Spirit stirs and moves and gives […]

Liturgy Reflection & Benediction 09.07.14

Liturgy In the beginning God created all things, and God saw that they were good. At our beginning, God created us unique and irreplaceable, loved and wanted by God, known and treasured by God even before He created us. In all our new beginnings, God creates something new so we will seek God in the freshness of this morning, in […]

Liturgy Reflection & Benediction 08.31.14

Liturgy The Spirit of God calls us from many places; some of us come from busy homes with many people, some of us live alone. We are all part of the family. This week has been different for each of us; some of us have happy news we want to celebrate, some of us face grief and need comforting. We […]

Liturgy Reflection & Benediction 08.24.14

Liturgy Our heavenly Father, We dare to imagine a world where hunger has no chance to show its face. We dare to dream of a world where war and terror are afraid to leave their mark. We long to believe in a world of hope unchained and lives unfettered. We dare to share in the creation of a world where […]

Liturgy Reflection & Benediction 08.17.14

Liturgy O God from whom every gift derives, we gather to worship you this day. You are a holy and awesome God, greater than our comprehension or our imagination. You are beyond any word we could ever use to describe you. And yet, through Jesus, we know the intimacy of your vast love. We have come to you in thanksgiving […]

Liturgy Reflection & Benediction 08.10.14

Liturgy O God, we trust in your power, even as it is often found in weakness; in your wisdom, even as it is expressed in seeming foolishness; in your wholeness, even as it comes to us amid brokenness. We do not ask this day for displays of strength, exercises of intellectual prowess, or manifestations of miracles. We come only to […]

Liturgy Reflection & Benediction 08.03.14

Liturgy Come to the water, all you who thirst— come drink deeply from the river of life. Come to the water, all you who are weary— come rest in the quiet pools of God’s love. Come to the water, all you who long for a justice— come be renewed in God’s ever-flowing stream. For God is here among us, washing […]