Pastors' Blog
This autumn, our worship follows our Church School curriculum, Seeking God Together. We are learning in worship alongside the youngest members of our community.
Many of you know that the most important part of worship for me is the cycle of confession, assurance and passing the peace. Why? Because I really believe the cliché that "confession is good for soul." We ALL mess up. We ALL...
REMINDER: Daylight Savings ends this Sunday, set clocks back one hour.
This autumn, our worship follows our Church School curriculum, Seeking God Together. We are learning in worship alongside the youngest members of our community.
One year ago, our Music Minister Susan launched the Negro...
This autumn, our worship follows our Church School curriculum, Seeking God Together. We are learning in worship alongside the youngest members of our community.
In Sunday's Gospel story, we hear a story of ten men with skin diseases (assumed to be leprosy) who ask Jesus for help. The story explains that "when Jesus saw them, he said, '...
This autumn, our worship follows our Church School curriculum, Seeking God Together. We are learning in worship alongside the youngest members of our community.
O God, how manifold are your works; in wisdom you have made them all. Psalm 104:24
Lately I've been watching lots of sunrises. And while I do, I marvel that we still speak of them as the sun rising or setting on us. Or...
This autumn, our worship follows our Church School curriculum, Seeking God Together. We are learning in worship alongside the youngest members of our community.
My friend Lisa is one of the best cooks I know. For years now, Robert and I have enjoyed regular meals with her and her husband Peter in their home, as well as ours. After I had knee surgery, Lisa came over and made a meal in...
This autumn, our worship follows our Church School curriculum, Seeking God Together. We are learning in worship alongside the youngest members of our community.
This Sunday, however, we take a break from our curriculum for Indigenous Peoples' weekend and turn to this message that God spoke through the Prophet Jeremiah:
"This...
This autumn, our worship follows our Church School curriculum, Seeking God Together. We are learning in worship alongside the youngest members of our community.
This Sunday, we look forward to welcoming the Reverend Carrington Moore, Executive Director of common cathedral, one of our ministry partners that holds worship...
This autumn, our worship follows our Church School curriculum, Seeking God Together. We are learning in worship alongside the youngest members of our community.
Many of us in this congregation lead busy lives. We fill our time with appointments, meetings, to-do lists, commitments, for ourselves and for our families. And too often, it's how we evaluate if our life has meaning: am I...
Last Sunday, we had a lively Welcome Back worship service on the lawn, punctuated with a last-minute rain shower and a quick pivot to move our usual outdoor picnic indoors. Amy and I spoke of the importance of call -- how God calls us individually and how God is calling us as a congregation amid a building crisis.
At the heart of discerning God's call for our lives is prayer, an active, ongoing, direct conversation with God. We heard last week how Moses had a direct conversation to...
This Sunday, we will hold worship on our front lawn.Family worship at 9:45amWelcome Back worship at 11amFollowed by an all-parish lunch on the lawn!
At the heart of our church's vision (from 2012) is the idea of "Call-Equip-Serve," meaning that each one of us is: 1. Called to do some kind of ministry, and can be 2. Equipped by our church community to do it, so that we...
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