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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.**
Category Archives: Messages
The Widow’s Mites
Two days before the events of our text today, Jesus had entered the city of Jerusalem. He went to the Temple, looked the place over, then left for Bethany, about two miles away. The next day he came back and … Continue reading →
Fringes
As did all Jewish men of his day, Jesus wore fringes on his garments. It was the fringes that the woman touched to gain healing in the Matthew story and Mark mentions in his third chapter people reaching out to … Continue reading →
Take heart, get up, he is calling you
For those of us who see ourselves involved in continuing Jesus’ work in the world, we can take from this simple bible story how it was the followers of Jesus who turned to the once rejected human being to say … Continue reading →
Metaphors for Dying
Today we have two great stories from Mark. The first is about Zebedee and Salome’s two boys. It presents to us questions about our own discipleship. The second is about the ten other disciples who believed that the two hot … Continue reading →
The Spirit of Meekness
The Christian attitude toward self and life is optimistic! Meekness enables us to bear patiently those insults and injuries we receive at the hand of others. It makes us ready to accept instruction from the least of the saints. It … Continue reading →
Prayer and the Ideal Community
James urges us to not expect magic solutions and sudden divine interventions which will bring justice for all nor simply give assent to metaphysical claims about Jesus and God, but rather that frail, fragmented and very human people, like you … Continue reading →
“And that’s the way it is…”
The public had the opportunity this week of memorializing Walter Cronkite who died this last July at 92 years of age. He was very close to my parent’s age. He attended Sam Houston High School in the same years my parents attended San Jacinto … Continue reading →
Transitions
In times of disruption, our first reaction is to try and recover what we believe has been lost. Do you think we can resurrect the aluminum and steel mills and automobile plants and somehow get back on track? That argument … Continue reading →
Bread of Life
From the perspective of what “should have been”, the Jewish people were within days of entering the promised land. Had they remained focused on their mission as the chosen people they would have avoided the punishment of the 38 additional … Continue reading →
All Good Things Come From God
Paul’s prayer for the Ephesians puts me in mind Margie McAdams, the wife of a pastor I once knew. It was her heart felt concern that Christians who before their meal in a restaurant bowed heads and said grace must leave … Continue reading →
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