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Liturgy Reflection & Benediction 10.11.2015

Liturgy We believe in God, who speaks through the prophets and lifts our gaze up to high and beautiful paths and peaks. We believe in Christ Jesus, free of corruption, yet willingly numbered among the sinners, baptized in the waters of the Jordan. We believe in the Spirit, who rested on Jesus like a dove, and inspired him with such […]

Liturgy Reflection & Benediction 09.27.2015

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 09.20.2015

Liturgy We could not approach you, O God, were it not for the person of Jesus, Lord and Savior, Servant and Friend. His perfect love and life could have widened the gap between us and you, but instead he offered himself as the way to you, by living out the truth of your love, showing no prejudice and gracing our […]

Liturgy Reflection & Benediction 09.13.2015

Liturgy Gracious God, into the shadows of our isolation you speak words of life and community. You challenge the lives we lead, and you call us away from places we try to call home to lead us more deeply into the world you love. With your gentle, healing touch you redeem the broken fragments in our lives, and you heal […]

Liturgy Reflection & Benediction 09.06.2015

This week we had a special performance by artist Scott Erickson, so our prayers were limited to the Benediction Benediction As you go from here, remember the promise of God: “I will rescue those who love me. I will protect those who trust in my name. When they call on me, I will answer; I will be with them in […]

Liturgy Reflection & Benediction 08.30.2015

Liturgy As we gather today, we pray that our lives may not turn our faiths into a certainty. Lord God, our Father, you speak your word to us through your Son Jesus Christ. May we listen to his words and welcome it with all that is in us. Let those words change our mentality and our ways, that it may […]

Liturgy Reflection & Benediction 08.23.2015

Liturgy Let us pray, that by growing in love this season we may bring the peace of Christ to our city. God our Father, your Word, Jesus Christ, spoke peace to a sinful world and brought mankind the gift of reconciliation by the suffering and death he endured. Teach us, the people who bear his name, to follow the example […]