Join us at 9:30 am on Sundays — We Make a Place for Everyone! Light, Warmth, and Watering The weeks of summer coincide with the beginning of the Pentecost season. Summer brings sunny warmth, growing crops, and the promise of harvest: images of the Holy Spirit’s presence and activity in our lives, the church, and [...]

Join us at 9:30 am on Sundays -- We Make a Place for Everyone! Celebrating Our God beyond Understanding The festival of the Holy Trinity celebrates the wonder of relationship with God while leaving us distinctly dissatisfied with our limited understanding of what God is. While guarding against the idolatry of language, we survey our [...]

Join us at 9:30 am on Sundays -- We Make a Place for Everyone! God Gives More than Enough It is the “first day of the week” (John 20:19), the day of the new creation, but to those locked away in the upper room in fear, the world is as it always has been. So entrenched [...]

Join us at 9:30 am on Sundays -- We Make a Place for Everyone! Overhearing Jesus At the ascension we, like the disciples in today’s reading in Acts, are left looking at the sky. But in the High Priestly Prayer (John 17), Jesus brings us back to earth. In the prayer he speaks not only from [...]

Join us on Sundays at 9:30 am -- We Make a Place for Everyone! Not Orphaned “I will not leave you orphaned,” Jesus promises us in today’s gospel. God is not some ruthless heavenly spectator judging us as on reality television, relishing our failures, wishing to exchange us for a better or more attractive child, [...]

Join us at 9:30 am on Sundays -- We Make a Place for Everyone! Overview The words of today’s gospel are most often heard during a funeral service. It is a popular choice of scripture for that occasion because the words provide wonderful assurance that the one who has died in Christ has now taken [...]

4th Sunday of Easter An Abundant Life Abundant life is promised to those who follow Jesus. But what is meant by abundant life? Some Christians, and much of contemporary American culture, interpret an abundant life to mean the “good life” of many fine things, an opulent lifestyle. Much of our economy and leisure time revolves [...]

3rd Sunday of Easter Change of Heart The people who hear Peter’s testimony and preaching are cut to the heart. The writer of 1 Peter instructs believers to love deeply from the heart. The disciples who encounter the risen Christ notice afterward that their hearts were “burning” within them as Jesus reveals the scriptures and then [...]

2nd Sunday of Easter Welcomed with Open Arms Thomas is not the only one missing from the assembly the Sunday after Easter Sunday. We are not told why Thomas is missing, but we do know why plenty of other folks are absent from the assembly: vacations, traveling, spring break for the kids. Thomas is criticized [...]

Join us on Sundays at 9:30 am — We Make a Place for Everyone! Resurrection of our Lord -- Easter Day Hidden with Christ Easter turns the world upside down. It defies our expectations with hiddenness and bluntness: Mary does not recognize the resurrected Jesus (John 20:14), the good news is heralded by an earthquake and [...]

Join us at 6 pm — We Make a Place for Everyone! Good Friday It is Finished Throughout his ministry Jesus turned things on their heads: the last became first, the poor were blessed, the blind could see. In parable and miracle Jesus brought a dominion that was set against the kingdoms of this world. [...]

Join us at 6 pm — We Make a Place for Everyone! Maundy Thursday All You Need is Love Jesus’ command today to love one another is not about having good feelings for each other or being “nice.” Jesus tells his disciples that they are to love one another “just as I have loved you.” [...]