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Mission Statement:
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.**
Category Archives: Messages
Hope Isn’t Wishful Thinking…
Hope isn’t wishful thinking – it is grounded in our experience of the divine and the reality that swirls around us. It acknowledges that God is an active player who requires that humbly his people do justly and act … Continue reading →
A Biblical View of Hope
A Biblical Hope Hope is foundational for us because it gives meaning and shape to our life as a community and our personal lives. Hopes shape our vision of how we are to be the church. A good is example is … Continue reading →
Affirmation Mysticism
There will be progress and regressions. But every victory, every particular progress from injustice to more justice, from suffering to more happiness, from hostility to more peace, from separation to more unity anywhere is a manifestation of the eternal in … Continue reading →
The Christian Hope
God assures us that, in the midst of our human planning in this world, which is always threatened by failure and fiasco, Christ is present with us. The presence of Christ is a stimulus to hope, even in the midst … Continue reading →
Humanity is Desperate for Hope
Fraudulent hope is one of the greatest malefactors of the human experience while genuine hope is its most dedicated benefactor. Addressing fear and anxiety is a question of learning hope. Hope is superior to fear but it isn’t passive. Hope … Continue reading →
O.K., If you say so…
(Prepared for Sunday August 10) Matthew 14:28 Peter answered him, “Lord, if it is you, command me to come to you on the water.” I found that strange? “Lord, if it is you, command me to risk my life, to … Continue reading →
From Loss to Love, From Bitterness to Joy
The story of Ruth leaves us with the promise of God’s faithful love, overflowing not just into the ordinary, everyday lives of two widows and a farmer, but into the lives of all Israel, and into our lives as well. Blessing upon blessing, heaped up and overflowing.
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A Migrant Family Finds Hope Amid Despair
God does not speak from burning bushes in this book; nor does God divide the sea. Instead, God acts through circumstance, and through the faithfulness of ordinary human beings. Continue reading →
1st John – Epistle of Schism
From the very beginning people within the community of faith have held contradictory beliefs. The reason the Gospel of John is so different from the synoptics is simply because people remember things differently. They use different words to describe their spirituality. That’s nothing new. But the lesson that I find beneath the nasty battle for orthodoxy in Ephesus is that despite the differences in our describing our faith experiences we are called to love each other. Continue reading →
A Small Tract
“It was there all the time, from the beginning.” What an interesting way to start. It’s like saying ‘how could we have missed it?” It’s like Oracle Jones in the movie Hallelujah Trail “I see it. I see it now!” But now we see, we hear, we feel and we testify to that experience. “The Word of Life.” Continue reading →
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