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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
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.
What Will This Change?
When you take in this whole passage of scripture you can’t miss the startling turn around in Jesus’ demenor. It is hard to pin down the exact emotions Jesus expresses as this passage begins, but they are exquisitly human … Continue reading →
A Message for God’s Messenger
In the first part of the story, the prophet seemingly overlooks the fact that God had taken away his clairvoyance so he was unaware of the woman’s situation. In the second part, when he sends his staff with his … Continue reading →
Perfection
Quakers believe that perfection was possible for the person in whom Christ dwelled and it was a perfection that allowed for continued maturation, a perfection that was proportional to a person’s challenges, a perfection that permitted her or him to … Continue reading →
Perfection
That You May Become Perfect The last four chapters of 2nd Corinthians is completely out of character with the first nine chapters. Twice in the earlier parts of 2nd Corinthians Paul writes of having sent a letter to the … Continue reading →
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