…the ‘best of times’ November 4, 2018 Scripture: Mark 12:28-34 Today marks the coming together of a number of issues and topics of great concern to our Church and church family. This is the weekend which we chose to celebrate the 180th Anniversary of our Sanctuary Building, which brought us together for a marvelous […]
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…walk with me October 14, 2018 Scripture: Job 23:1-9, 16-17 The first disciples walked with Jesus, he was there each morning when they awoke and he was there to comfort and explain the trials of each day at nightfall. Truly they experienced times of great joy and wonder…and just as surely, they went
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Creation Fully Alive! October 7, 2018 Scripture: Readings from Genesis 1 (On the fifth day God said) “Let the water be filled with many kinds of living beings, and let the air be filled with birds.” So God created the great sea creatures, all kinds of creatures that live in the water, and all
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In whose eyes? September 23, 2018 Scriptures: James 3:13-4:3, 7-8a, Mark 9:30-37 In whose eyes do you wish to be seen as ‘first’? This question is one of those that I imagine lies somewhere in the background of the mind of each one of us. For from the time of our birth we learned
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love the One who loves you… September 9, 2018 Scripture: Proverbs 22:1-2, 8-9, 22-23, James 2:1-10, 14-17 There is so much wise counsel in the words of our reading from James…so much to sort through that seeks to guide us in how it is that we are to act and to be observed
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…generous act…perfect gift September 2, 2018 Scriptures: Hebrews 8:8-1, James 1:17-21 As I have shared in the past, I approach each week’s readings with both expectation and apprehension…never sure of what the Spirit is going to place before me each week…holding faithfully to the idea that almost always there will be a word
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‘bread-bakers all are we…’ August 5, 2018 Scriptures: Ephesians 4:1-6, John 6:24-35 Ephesians 4:1-6 I, therefore, the prisoner in the Lord, beg you to lead a life worthy of the calling to which you have been called, with all humility and gentleness, with patience, bearing with one another in love, making every effort to maintain the unity
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‘…don’t look down’ July 29, 2018 Scriptures: based loosely on John 6:1-20 and Matthew 14:28-33 Simon Peter looked longingly towards the hills where they had watched Jesus walk off all alone several hours earlier. He had always taken time to withdraw by himself and to pray, but this time it seemed somehow different. In
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…a dwelling place for God July 22, 2018 Scriptures: Ephesians 2:11-22, Mark 6:30-34, 53-56 Ephesians 2:11-22 So then, remember that at one time you Gentiles…were without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers to the covenants of promise, having no hope and without God in the world. But now in Christ Jesus
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Our blessing place… July 15, 2018 Scripture: Psalm 24 Twenty years ago, in the early fall following our second season on Cascade Farm as a Community Farm, I found myself reflecting on how wonderful the season had been. It was a good season in part because we had only recently begun to use some of
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