Liturgy Beloved church family,let this morning be a time of slowing.Let us find a moment to pause and rest,to practice patience and experience peace.May our liturgy today be a healing balmfor the busyness of this season. Advent is a time of waiting and anticipation.We see the darkness and feel the cold,but also, we have the light and warmth to come. […]
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Dreaming of a Just Love
How do we move from our reasonable resolutions to dreaming in league with the Divine? On the fourth week of advent, Christopher Mack opens up about how experience and encounter get us unstuck and in step with God’s Radical Love [Matthew 1:18-25] Reflection How is Jesus being “with us” an anchor through imperfections and surprises this season? Is there someone […]
Liturgy, Reflection, Benediction 2022.12.11
Liturgy Today is the third Sunday of Advent, andwe light the third candle of Advent for Joy. Welcome to this shared space of awarenessand anticipation of how divine joy has come and is coming. As you feel safe and comfortable,you are invited to pause for a moment. Allow your body to soften.Allow your mind to find stillness.Observe what happens naturally […]
Making Space for the Unexpected
How do you usually respond to something that’s unexpected? On the third week of advent, Weylin Lee invites us to glimpse restoration and healing for ourselves and those around us, even in the most uncomfortable places and seemingly invisible people. [Matthew 11:2-11] Reflection What are the glimpses of restoration around us in the midst of disappointment? What are the uncomfortable […]
Liturgy, Reflection, Benediction 2022.12.04
Liturgy We gather together on the secondSunday of Advent, and we lightthe candle of peace. We each bring a wound, a weight,or a worry into this Advent season.What might yours be? May we have the audacity and courageto name to God and those we trustwhatever within is longing foracknowledgment and comfort. God, we realize that often the mostpainful part of […]
What Does It Mean to Repent?
How does God relate to us through trust? As we enter the second week of advent, Gena St. David invites us into a wilder waiting in the wilderness, as we reconsider misperceptions of our life and their ramifications. [Matthew 3:1-6] Reflection Who has embodied God’s love for you? How has your perception of love changed after being with them? What […]
Daring Disruption
How might we foster hope among so much grief and cyclical injustice in the world? Christopher Mack begins this season of Advent slowing down to glimpse with the prophet Isaiah, a word that might remake our world. [Isaiah 2:1-5] Reflection What ruts of routine or quicksands of status quo are constraining your life or world? How might you move in […]