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Our purpose is encouraging, loving, and supporting a diverse group of people who gather to deepen their experience of the inner light of God. We direct this inner light outward in service to others to share the love of Christ.
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Author Archives: maggiemax15
Lebanese Mother Takes Jesus to Task
…thanks be to God for this tenacious Syrophoenician theologian and mother. But don’t lose track of the simplicity of it all. Her theology doesn’t originate in books and study; it’s an expression of painfully experienced need and fierce motherly love. Continue reading →
Kitty Benedixen-park “The Elephant in the Meeting Room”
Reflecting the Elephant in the Meeting Room A Message Shared by Kitty D. Benedixen-Park in Meeting for Worship at Spokane Friends May 5, 2013 Elephants have very sophisticated hearing, and incredible infrasound, which is very low-frequency sound that can … Continue reading →
Creating a Culture of Accountability
Jesus asks “For which of these (works) are you going to stone me?” The Jews answered, ‘It is not for a good work that we are going to stone you, but for blasphemy’”. It wasn’t the Messianic implications that whips them … Continue reading →
Waylaid on the Road to Righteousness
Waylaid On the Road to Righteousness. A Japanese Christian wrote of the experience of his country before and then a precisely 8:16 on the morning of August 6th, 1945. In 1941 the Emperor of Japan declared war on the United … Continue reading →
Resurrection: Not an Evidence Based Practice
Resurrection faith came slow to most of the disciples. But when it did come it changed everything. They recognized the incredible scope and enormous implications of the biblical witness that when God raised Jesus from the dead God was creating … Continue reading →
Celebrating the Messianic Banquet
Celebrate It was big show biz news this last week — Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher and Mark Hamill are returning for ‘Star Wars: Episode 7’. In how many of our memories resides the fantastic flight of Luke Skywalker, who with … Continue reading →
“For I Am The Servant…”
Psalm 143 When you take the time to study not so much the reign of David but David himself you come to see how, when it came to family relationships he was an abject failure. But it is no wonder … Continue reading →
Getting Beyond Bhat Sheva
Psalm 51 is a much loved Psalm. We especially revere a few specific verses. 10Create in me a clean heart, O God, and put a new and right spirit within me. 7Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be … Continue reading →
Psalm 38
Wouldn’t it be grand to have such a relationship with God that we’d dare be so bold as David: to remind God to be more gentle with us in God’s discipline; to remind God of God’s promise to not … Continue reading →
Psalm 32
As a preface to Paul’s love poem in 1st Corinthians he concludes chapter 12 declaring “I can show you a more excellent way”. Verse 8 of Psalm 32 says something very similar. “I will instruct you and teach you the … Continue reading →
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