Category: Weekly Update

  • Be Still and Know

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    “Be still and know that I am God.”  I bet you’ve heard that one before –  in church, or in a worship song, or a sermon or devotional. We like this one. So we quote it to one another frequently. At least that’s been my experience. I wonder have you ever read the Psalm in READ MORE →

  • Upping our game

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    If Lent is a time to “up our game” when it comes to our faith practices, I wonder how that’s going? Has the concept of Lent traditionally being a time of prayer, fasting and giving inspired you lately? Maybe thinking of Lent as an invitation to simplify or slow down is more helpful that upping READ MORE →

  • Lent is here

    Lent is here, which means Easter is coming! So as we prepare for more snow again, remember it won’t last for much longer. Spring will be here soon. At least that’s what I’m telling myself as I look ahead to more digging out.  It was so lovely to get together with many of you on READ MORE →

  • Non-negotiables

    Happy Friday the 13th to you! I hope you are having a good week. As you look forward to the weekend I hope you will find time to enjoy the warmer weather forecast for Saturday. And of course, you are warmly invited to come out for a morning of worship and communion at our house READ MORE →

  • Snowy Sunday

    Hi everyone, Well, it looks like snow might be what’s happening on Sunday.  Let’s plan on a 10:30am zoom gathering unless the weather forecast spares us.  This week I’ve been hanging out in Washington DC, while Libby has been doing a one week internship. It’s been a good week of time with her, as well READ MORE →

  • Greetings and Welcome

    Church tomorrow will be at the Ross’ at 10:30am. I hope you can join us. Our scripture passage will be from Matthew 25. If you’d like to reflect on it, here it is: 31 “When the Son of Man comes in his glory, and all the angels with him, he will sit on his glorious throne. 32 All the READ MORE →

  • a flock of birds flying above open hands as if they were held and released, with a sunset in the background, and text reads "Letting Go as a Spiritual Practice"

    Letting go as a Spiritual Practice

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    Happy New Year! I hope you’ve each found time to connect with God, family and friends during this holiday season. We’ve had a lovely visit to Michigan to see family, and we really enjoyed celebrating Christmas Eve a day early on zoom with so many of you! My parents and sisters enjoyed meeting you all READ MORE →

  • Advent Greetings

    In just a few more days we will mark the coming of one we wait for: Jesus, Emmanuel, God with us. I’m sure some of us will spend that day with a lot of activity. Maybe you’ll be with family or friends. There might we gifts and special meals. There might be grief over who READ MORE →

  • It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas

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    “It’s beginning to look at lot like Christmas.”  This seems like a relevant lyric for today. Snow’s in the forecast, tomorrow begins the third week of Advent, and my “to do” list is getting harder to face. How about you? I know I need the support of practicing my faith in community to stay present READ MORE →

  • Declaring Peace

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    14 For he himself is our peace, who has made the two groups one and has destroyed the barrier, the dividing wall of hostility, 15 by setting aside in his flesh the law with its commands and regulations. His purpose was to create in himself one new humanity out of the two, thus making peace, 16 and in one body to reconcile both of them READ MORE →