If you were in worship Sunday I hope you picked up a slip with green dots on it, and put one of those dots in strategic locations around your car and house to remind yourself to open up a conversation with the God who loves you, and
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It was another tough week on the forgiveness front as we considered our mandate to forgive others, as many as seven times a day, or perhaps as many at 77 times or even 70 times 7 times. That’s a LOT! We are to forgive regardless of whether the other person
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This week we looked together at some things forgiveness is NOT, which included the following: Forgiveness is NOT denying our hurt to keep the peace Forgiveness is NOT accepting inappropriate blame for our own hurt Forgiveness is NOT just a warm fuzzy feeling toward another
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I hope you have joined us the last two Sundays for reflections on Forgiveness, which is one of the most central aspects of our faith life. We are those who are forgiven by God; and we are meant to forgive others as we have been forgiven. We’ve looked at a
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As we begin a new year together we will be reflecting deeply about forgiveness. The starting point on Sunday: understanding ourselves as forgiven people who are called to forgive others. We thought together about how excessive feelings of guilt and shame can get in the way of experiencing God’s forgiveness,
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Just one more week to go before we gather to celebrate the birth of Jesus — and that means that many of us have kicked it into high gear. I know at my house the desire for a rest yesterday gave way to the compulsion to get a little “pre-cooking”
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Last Sunday we talked about Joseph, who was engaged to be married to Mary, and how hard it must have been for him to hear that she was pregnant with a child that was not his. We thought together about how difficult it must have been to decide to marry
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Last Sunday we talked about Mary, the mother of Jesus, who may have been as young as 13 or 14 when the angel Gabriel came to visit. She faced such a difficult choice, knowing that the world would not understand her pregnancy; knowing that she might be ostracized or cast
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It is the season of thanksgiving – one of my favorite times of the year. I long ago discovered that once I start noticing the gifts God has given me, they seem to multiply. So I thank God for the day, and the weather, and the church, and family and
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In my sermon on Sunday we talked about the immensity of the good news that is ours in Christ Jesus: the freedom we have as his followers; the new life that is ours when we choose to commit our hearts and lives to him; the forgiveness that gives us a fresh start
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