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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
An Unsuspected Missionary Evangelist
From a classical perspective missionaries are those who are sent out as announcers of God’s grace. In a very real sense they are evangelists. These missionary evangelists that go as Jesus’ representatives in Luke 10 are told to declare that … Continue reading →
The Only Thing That Matters
Living by the flesh involves a life focused on the self and its needs above all else. We seek to satisfy our desires by consumption and control, rather than relationship and care. The obvious examples of living by the flesh … Continue reading →
Elijah’s Mountain Top Experience
It seems that God doesn’t respond to exaggerated claims of self-importance. Rather Elijah is instructed to go out and stand on the mountain before Yahweh. Placing yourself before God sometimes has a way of putting things in perspective.
Two Extraordinarily Different Lives
Forgiveness is unconditional or it is not forgiveness at all. For the sinner, forgiveness has the character of “in spite of,”. For the righteous forgiveness is endowed with the character of “because.” Unlike the righteous, sinners cannot transform the “in … Continue reading →
Compassionate Intercession
For the first time in the Old Testament we have a new story form, a prophetic narrative that describe in speech and deeds the work of the Prophet. The stories of Elijah are the first to use such a literary … Continue reading →
Access
William Loader says that Paul emphasizes that nothing should clutter the simplicity of our relationship with God. There are no hidden hurdles that we must clear or qualifications we must achieve. It is an unconditional love which greets us – … Continue reading →
Pentecost – The Wild Goose
Because the Celtic Church was never infected with a dualistic outlook on creation, they did not see matter as evil, nor the spiritual world as divorced from the material. They looked on Creation around them as one great hymn of … Continue reading →
The Last Word
The Last Word: Acts 16:16–34; Psalm 97; Revelation 22:12–14, 16–17, 20–21 Our story today continues where we left off last week, where Paul and his cohorts are beginning their work in Philippi. The story is jammed packed with people who … Continue reading →
Unspectacular and Insignificant Moments
Eighteenth-century deists like Thomas Jefferson believed in a supreme being who created the world, ordered it with the predictable laws of nature and morality, and then abandoned it like an absentee landlord. Deists, who judge everything by reason alone, reject … Continue reading →
Non-verbal Witnesses
During our 10:45 Meeting for Worship the joys and concerns on the hearts of worshippers shared with those gathered and the inspired messages shared in our time of open worship led to concluding our time of worship with the reading for this … Continue reading →
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