Beautiful Beloveds With Ash Wednesday behind us, we enter the season of Lent. We try on new or bring out familiar spiritual practices. And, we enter a new worship series: Holy Vessels. This year, we remember we are all created in the image of God as “Holy Vessels” of love. And, we remember that in…
Beautiful Beloveds, Tomorrow is Super Bowl Sunday, and we’ll celebrate with a Super Singing Sunday. Our worship, both virtual and in the parking lot will celebrate the singers and musicians in our midst. We’ll also give thanks for music’s ability to give form to praise, deepest emotions, and even unspoken thoughts and feelings. You’ll also…
Beautiful Beloveds, Have you filled out your pledge, or estimate of giving yet? Is it on your to-do list, but not done yet? If you have, thank you! Your estimate of giving helps our finance team plan wise and careful spending on mission and ministry in the coming year. If you haven’t, please do. …
Like good stewards of the manifold grace of God, serve one another with whatever gift each of you has received. – 1 Peter 4:10 Beautiful Beloveds, As our stewardship month draws to close, I invite you reflect on the ways God is using you to bless others. How is God using your prayers, presence,…
Beautiful Beloveds, As we enter the third week of our stewardship series, we invite you to re-imagine. Reimagine your relationship to money. Reimagine the ways you support our church with your prayers, presence, gifts, service and witness. Just one of the ways we support the church is with our financial resources. To make it as…
Do not repay anyone evil for evil, but take thought for what is noble in the sight of all. If it is possible, so far as it depends on you, live peaceably with all. – Romans 12:17-18 Beautiful Beloveds Today, we observe another form of “New Year,” the inauguration of a new president and…
Beautiful Beloveds, “Oh, let us turn our thoughts today To Martin Luther King And recognize that there are ties between us All men and women living on the Earth Ties of hope and love Sister and brotherhood” -James Taylor, Shed a Little Light This weekend, we pause to remember the unfinished dream of…
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. All things came into being through him, and without him not one thing came into being. What has come into being in him was life, and the life was the light…
Beautiful Beloveds, “Remember?” So many of my conversations with my children include that one-word question, “Remember?” Sometimes they expand, “Remember that time we…” Remembering together can bring a renewed sense of identity and connection. On Sunday, as we kick off the new year, we begin our 2021 Stewardship Campaign, “Our Money Story.” We begin, by…
A Word on Wednesday Jesus was born in the town of Bethlehem, in the province of Judea, at the time when King Herod reigned. Not long after Jesus was born, magi, wise men or seers from the East, made their way from the East to Jerusalem. These wise men made inquiries. Wise Men: Where is…