It is so lovely to have this fabulous worship theme, “at the portal” and I thank our many artists for creating doors, windows, edges, thresholds, faces, so many ways inside and outside, and the liminal space between. The word itself …
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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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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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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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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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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 …
Continue readingOur 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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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 …
Continue readingOkay, 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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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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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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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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