May 2014 The Longing for Home – Women’s Book Club Sunday, May 4, 2014 Note change in location May Monthly Gathering | with Jan Johnson Friday, May 16th, 2014 The Divine Conspiracy – Men’s Reading Group Saturday, May 17, 2014 Church Family Meeting – (see event calendar) Sunday, May 25, 2014 On Sunday, May 25 …
Since this Easter season began, I’ve been struck in a new way with a particular mystery of the Resurrection: the beauty of a new kind of life that God brings about through death. Specifically, I’ve been thinking about the very genuine kind of death involved in surrendering our own will—our own personal “chooser”—to God. Though …
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At the beginning of one of his sermons, the philosopher Soren Kierkegaard asks, what is the one thing we ought to wish for the people we love—a friend or spouse, a sibling or child? I’m sure many things come to mind. We would want for them success in their work or calling—although we know that …
As I sit in my peaceful Sabbath after Easter Sunday, on the heels of multiple Holy Week services, loads of activity, public exchanges with God and my church community; tears stream gently down my face as I sip my coffee. I don’t try to stifle, restrain, deny or judge the undefinable emotions that produce these …