Each Sunday we gather at 10:30 am for a joyous worship experience with music, scripture, other inspired readings, a reflection, communion and prayers.
Over these weeks of Advent, we’ve reflected on how this is a time to prepare. to watch and to wait. Encompassed in all of that is that Advent is also a time to pray. Prayer is at the center of our lives and a spiritual rhythm and discipline we are called to as part of […]
We have reflected over the past two weeks on Advent as a time to prepare and a time to watch. This week we consider how Advent is a time of waiting and how that waiting is a microcosm of the waiting we experience in so many ways throughout our lives. There are many times in […]
Last week, I reflected on the theme of Advent as a time of preparation. This week, we’ll consider the discipline and rhythm of watching as part of our preparing for the coming of God in the child of Bethlehem. From Old Testament times, through the New Testament and the establishing of the early Christian church, […]
It’s hard to believe that we’re at the point of starting Advent. It’s a new church year!! So … HAPPY NEW YEAR!!! Over the coming weeks in my musings, I will be reflecting on the various themes of Advent as we prepare to welcome the coming of Christ, the Son of God. This week, we […]
God has blessed us abundantly with the gift of faith and hope through the promise He has given us especially in His Son Jesus Christ. And that faith and hope sees us through many difficult, trying and stressful times throughout our lives. I can’t begin to count the number of people who have said they […]
Every year, the mantra we hear on Remembrance Day is, “lest we forget”. It is the reminder of the fallen soldiers who have died in wars that our country has been involved in. One article I read said, “The phrase encapsulates our desire to remember the past tragedy and sacrifice and ensure that such bloody […]
Our environment is in a crisis … God’s gift of creation is getting more and more compromised. And for some that has left them feeling a sense of hopelessness. Have things gone too far? Have we as human beings contributed to so much destruction that there’s no going back? Where’s the hope when we see […]
Sometimes we shy away from connecting our faith with politics. To be sure, we need to be non partisan in any political conversations we enter into. However, I believe that there is a place for faithfulness in the political arena and that we as the church are called upon to be prophetic voices for those […]
As I’ve been going about the various parts of training Honey, I’ve thought about the spiritual lessons I’m being reminded of too. Sometimes we, like Honey, need training and reinforcing as we grow more and more into the faithful disciples we are called to be as followers of Jesus Christ. First, training Honey is about […]
Gratitude … thanksgiving … appreciation. These are the words that come to mind as we enter into this intentional time of remembering our many blessings. We have received gifts in abundance from God and yet how often do we remember to express our thanks. Are there times when in fact, as unintentional as it might […]