We peek into a thriving corner of God’s garden this week as the children and youth in our church family will lead us in a special Mother’s Day combined service at 10:00 am.
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Scripture does not shy away from embracing mental health challenges and speaking to them.
When Jesus becomes a barrier to all that God has intended for us, you are no longer following the truth of Jesus.
In a moment when faith is being co-opted by power and fear, Peter calls us back to the way of Jesus—where suffering becomes witness, hope outlasts empire, and love speaks louder than threats. What does it mean to follow Christ here and now?
Jesus has given us a way to experience him outside of the written word.
Death cannot stop the good news. It is alive, unbound, and wild in the world!
Jesus’s march is for the people—all the people: the hungry, the poor, the afraid.
As we wrestle with our own rules, we should ask, “What is the most just, merciful, and faithful interpretation?”
Throughout his ministry, Jesus emphasized the last, the least, and the lost, building upon the mandates of the Hebrew scriptures to care for the immigrant, widow, and orphan among you.
Dumbfounded, the disciples can only fathom the limitations and financial constraints of Jesus’s suggestion.
The woman with the alabaster jar shows a shocking, extravagant love that exemplifies the Greatest Commandment.
It may feel a bit lavish to start the season of Lent with a wedding banquet, but the good news begins with joy.
Our story doesn’t end at the mountain top. We all must eventually traverse down to the valley.
Jesus knows the right time and the right way. Let him set the algorithm of your life.
Racism is alive, and we will not stand for it.
On this day of Human Trafficking Awareness, we pray for justice to rain down and for a spiritual storm to shake the hearts of the very people who live the lie that they can do whatever is profitable to them at the expense of others.
Christ is born, yet it feels as if the world has not changed.
What would it look like for us to proclaim the good news loudly, with overflowing joy?
There will be a combined worship service at 10:00 am on Sunday, December 21, which will include our Christmas Pageant and be followed by Breakfast for Baby Jesus.
We fear that we aren’t enough. That we’ll be alone. That no one will listen. And yet…