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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.
**Following the teachings of the Living Christ, we are an open, loving, and affirming community.
We believe that God’s Light is inherent within all people. There are no exceptions.**
Author Archives: maggiemax15
What Obedience Looks Like…
I guess I’m guilty of judging a book by its cover. A couple of months ago I decided to not attend to a conference on preaching because the grabber copy said that it was about preaching to a ‘sin hardened … Continue reading →
What Obedience Looks Like
I guess I’m guilty of judging a book by its cover. A couple of months ago I decided to not attend to a conference on preaching because the grabber copy said that it was about preaching to a ‘sin … Continue reading →
Ya’ll Come Now, Ya’ Hear…
Frankly, there are people today who don’t like Jesus’ parable. They reject the universalism caught up in the word ‘everyone’. That the kings slaves filled the wedding hall with all whom they found, both good and bad just seems like … Continue reading →
“…and start all over again…”
One author said that Genesis is bad science and bad history but great theology. Of course the fact is that the early chapters of Genesis isn’t history at all, it is pre-history. Untold thousands of years of human development are … Continue reading →
Vocational Counseling
It has only been in recent decades that we’ve come to speak of vocation in a secular way – like vocational schools or the job we take to pay the bills. We treat it like a synonym for occupation with … Continue reading →
To forgive – divine.
It seems like an uncanny coincidence that a parable about radical forgiveness is our lectionary text for today, this the tenth anniversary of the attack by terrorists on the Pentegon and the World Trade Center. We all might prefer a … Continue reading →
Defiled, Outcasts and Aliens…
Matthew 15 and Isaiah 56, each in their own way, have a similar message. The story in Matthew makes me celebrate what a great student of the Torah and the Prophets Jesus actually was. It also reminds me how much … Continue reading →
whoops – I gotcha
Three of the Gospels tell this story. Each however has a much different conclusion. Mark’s version in chapter 6 gives us this ghostly impression of Jesus coming out of the fog in the early morning hours, which terrified the disciples. … Continue reading →
Seaside Ministry
Here’s a challenge for you – some game day during basketball season, take five loaves and two fish to the Kennel at Gonzaga and offer to feed all the people in the stands. That’s our mind stretching Gospel story for … Continue reading →
The Parable of the Seeds
If we are to model our own sowing after the sower in Jesus parable we will share the message of God’s kingdom extravagantly and indiscriminately, not judging which people and places are worthy of them and which are not.
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