Turning the Page

This Sunday, we have a Daniel Webster preaching his sermon “Turning the Page.” Join us as he  leads us through a worship portal filled with readings and special music by Art Crummer, Catherine Cake, and Ned Stewart! Click Here for …

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Graduate Sunday 2019

Join us as we celebrate our graduating High School Seniors! This service is led by our seven graduates and members of Youth United, and includes a special encore performance by our Retreat Jazz Band, playing “Won’t You Be My …

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“Reality of the Unseen”

This is clearly a time of uncertainty. Reforms in institutions that were meant to make society better for all people are crumbling. Political offices that once held esteem are laughable. The economic system is designed so that wealthier keep getting …

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Unsophisticated Grace

Andy Bachmann continues our theme, “By the Riverside.” We’ve got beautiful special music offering another perspective on the power of the rivers that we seek, and some more beautiful questions to consider as we dive deeper into a spirit-enriched life. …

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Bouyancy

I don’t know about you, but some of the best school days ever were the days the scholastic book orders came home, do you remember these?  I would get out a marker and start circling all the books that were …

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Swift Stillness

Our worship services have a new theme, “By the Riverside” and we’re going to kick off this theme with the inspiring and awesome music of the Hogtown Strutters and Andy Bachmann offers some thoughts on how we might find …

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Easter on Earth

Once the great theologian Marcus Borg wrote “I sympathize with clergy who preach about Easter to the same congregation for several years. Of course, you say what you think is most important the first time. So what do you say …

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Mind the Call

Okay, I know you picked up on the fact that our subtle theme in this worship service is Call and our responses to it. And one of the ways we can respond to life’s call is to sign up on …

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Plugging Into Prayer

Pray what you can, not what you can’t. That’s where we start. In our lifetimes we may experience many kinds of prayer – childhood prayers of thanks and good night, traditional prayers from scripture and from church liturgy, responsive prayers …

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Slow Food Spirituality

With a Lenten theme of “Unplugged,” it just makes sense to discuss some slow food spirituality—slowing down…reconsidering food. Because, as Wendell Berry points out in more than one of his essays, “Eating is not just fueling up, it is an …

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Safety First

March 17th is an important day for my family – 4 years ago today, a judge declared that Aiyana was our daughter and that we were officially a forever family. I remember lots of moments from that day – the …

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Lenten Bliss

This first Sunday of Lent, Andy Bachmann kicks off our new theme, “Unplugged.” Traditionally, these forty days and nights are OUR symbolic journey into the wilderness, meant to be a time of preparation for Easter Sunday. But what if we …

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