This week, we begin a new six-week series “Villains in the Bible” (using resources from Church Anew) by looking at the serpent, the villain of the creation story in Genesis 3. The serpent distorts God’s gifts into withholding, inviting us
In this week’s Gospel reading from Luke 5, we hear a great story about some friends bringing (literally carrying) a paralyzed man to Jesus for healing. No matter what obstacles they faced, nothing was going to stop them from bringing
Today in worship, we celebrated a new church festival day: “The Feast of Creation in Christ.” (Visit https://www.feastofcreation.com/ to learn more.) In addition to exploring what it means to praise God as Creator and ponder the great mystery that everything
For nearly 2,000 years, the church has struggled with the question of who gets to be included in God’s family. We’re tempted to treat God’s love if it were like a pie with only so many pieces to go around.
After spending the first part of the week on an adult ecumenical mission trip to Chicago, and then the latter part of the week at a Teens Encounter Christ retreat weekend, I came home and got a couple hours of