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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
Life Has No Reverse
Last evening, at the graduation celebration for Rachel and her room-mates, I heard the intentions for their futures shared by five young women. None had evidently pursued a college degree looking for a spouse. Each of them had next … Continue reading →
A New Love Chapter?
In these fifteen verses of the fourth chapter of 1st John the word love is used twenty-five times. That may be cause to challenge the 13th Chapter of 1st Corinthians for the title of the “Love Chapter” of the … Continue reading →
What’s A Gatekeeper to Do?
Today our understanding of the role of a gate is a bit eschewed. We’ve got gated communities where in some places a guard has to be given authority to let a specified visitor enter. We’ve made deliveries to military … Continue reading →
Finding Faith
Finding Faith John 20: 24-29; Daniel 3:17-18; Hebrews 11:32-39 When our girls were little hearing departing sleigh bells as they awakened on Christmas morning provided adequate confirmation that Santa had indeed included them in his appointed rounds. Snow covered landscapes … Continue reading →
The Seven Next Words of Jesus – A Red Letter Easter
The Seven Next Words of Jesus – a Red Letter Easter Message John 20:1-23 John’s description of Easter morning is all about Mary of Magdala. It is quite unexpected and rather strange for her to be the center of such … Continue reading →
Seven Last Words of Jesus
In a past that is still part of many of our memories this particular Sunday, the Sunday before Easter, was reserved for the pageantry of Palm Sunday. Then there was a clear understanding that as the work week ended, on … Continue reading →
Selective Amnesia
Out of love for Israel God develops selective amnesia. The God of Israel, the One who neither slumbers nor sleeps, chooses to forget. What do you make of this? Is this a metaphor, a dramatic play of words? Has God … Continue reading →
The Briefest Gospel
The briefest Gospel. It seems that when you encounter the Gospel as it is presented today it comes shrouded in theories of atonement and tightly wrapped up in peoples’ world views and various ways of restricting God’s grace. Sometimes it … Continue reading →
Sema for Quakers
The third verse of the whole Bible begins “God said…” One of the truly great things about our God is that our God speaks. And when God speaks wondrous things happen – like creation. In the sixth chapter of the … Continue reading →
The Hound of Heaven
Allowing ourselves to become captive to Christ’s spirit, to allow oneself to be apprehended, taken into custody like a Sheriff would an escaped inmate, is as close a description as we can imagine to the meaning of utter, complete and … Continue reading →
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