Is it well with your soul?

1 John 1:1-2:2 • The word of life. John 20:19-31 • Jesus appears to the disciples. Transformation is not an easy, nor a quick process. Discovering a new normal, a new way of life in the wake of a death or a major loss leaves us with an unsettling feeling.

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Empty is Actually Full

Acts 10:34-43 • God shows no partiality. Mark 16:1-8 • The resurrected Jesus appears. What is there new for us to say about Easter? We celebrate the faith that there is always a renewed way by which God’s radical love breaks through.

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Crossing barriers in the name of Love

Psalm 118: 1-2, 19-39 • God’s love endures forever. Mark 11:1-11 • Jesus enters Jerusalem. The people followed, and the people came to welcome the man who was shifting our understanding, and our way of living. He crossed barriers of race, class, culture and gender identity. He preached and practiced

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Embraced, Embodied, Emboldened

Genesis 9:8-17 • The covenant between God and Noah. Mark 1:9-15 • The baptism, temptation and mission. The spirit drove Jesus into the wilderness into a liminal space where what once was is dissolved and what will be will emerge. The act of re-covenanting is an important practice that provides

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To Run or to Stand Firm

Jonah 3:1-5,10 • Ninevah Encouraged to Repent Mark 1:14-20 • The Call To Discipleship The suggested Psalm for today which we did not read is Psalm 6. Basically the Psalm calls on us to be still, and wait for or know, God. The readings this week offer us a challenge…when

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A Uniting Spirit Revealed

Ephesians 3:1-12 • Boldness through faith. Matthew 2:1-12 • The visit of the magi. On Epiphany Sunday we are invited to seek and discover what is being revealed through the power of the Holy Spirit. The power of the Holy Spirit moves through us and in us causing great and

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We Shall Gather In Joy

Jeremiah 31:7-14 Gathered in Joy John 1:10-18 • The Word was in the world. We feel as if we have been in exile…cut off from all we know and love. We are looking for “normal”, nothing spectacular just a chance to gather around a campfire with friends and hear the

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