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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
“How God Slips In” The Third Sunday of Advent
Advent III “How God Slips In” The season of Advent is about God making Christ’s presence known in our world, bringing justice and peace, righteousness and faithfulness, truth and mercy into the lives of the captives, the broken hearted … Continue reading →
Here Is Your God
Advent II “Here is Your God!” It is at this time each year that our attention is drawn to the Messiah by George Frederick Handel. Combined with the libretto prepared by Charles Jennens, which is more or less Old and … Continue reading →
It’s Hard To Tell The Difference – Sometimes….
Some of the scariest perspectives in all contemporary Christianity find their foundation in these concluding parables of Matthew’s Gospel. Some of the people who are into “the end of the world as we know it” to quote one of the … Continue reading →
Investment Strategies
Recently on This American Life, a program on National Public Radio, they addressed our current economic climate in a valiant attempt to make understandable to a dummy like me such arcane things as “credit default swaps” and “stock infusion plans.” … Continue reading →
Statues, Statutes or … .
November 9, 2008 On October 2, Governor Sarah Palin made a statement of genuine importance that demands analysis. She said “But even more important is that world view that I share with John McCain. That world view … Continue reading →
A Time of Change
November 2 A Time of Change Was it Halloween? Or just all the leaves I’ve been mulching. Maybe it is the return to Pacific Standard Time. Maybe it is that it is election time. Every year at this time we’ve … Continue reading →
Yom Kippur
Today is the day of our visitation. Barclay, later in his Apology, reminds us that while the day of our own visitation lasts there is never a time that God is not near us and his Spirit is not wrestling … Continue reading →
Tenant Evaluation
It is too easy to point toward the Pharisees and shake our heads. Perhaps this talk of vineyards and slaves and owners is about once upon a time instead of here and now. Such a strange story seems a long … Continue reading →
Yes and No
September 28, 2008 In preparing this week I couldn’t shake the way these very different scripture passages seemed to coalesce. The focus is always on the character of God as trust worthy. The refusal to repent is simply a … Continue reading →
Mine, Mine, Mine, Mine…
Matthew 20:1-16 September 21, 2008 Our Gospel reading for today tells us that there were labor disputes in Jesus’ day. Just like today there were problems between labor and management like the recent teachers strike in Bellview and Boeing’s … Continue reading →
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