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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
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 →
A Hard Lesson to Learn
The word forgive comes from a Greek word with a rich constellation of meanings that extend to financial, relational, and physiological matters. It can mean to remit, to give up a debt, to keep no longer. We can translate it … Continue reading →
Qualifications for Service
“They were changed men themselves before they went about to change others. Their hearts were rent as well as their garments, and they knew the power and work of God upon them….And as they freely received what they had to … Continue reading →
The Good, the Acceptable and the Perfect
“…let nothing be wanting among you. Then all is well and will be well. Encourage one another to seek out the poor, sick, fatherless, widows and imprisoned and make up their necessities and wants. Then there will be nothing … Continue reading →
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