Of the four Sundays in Advent, Advent 3 is perhaps the one most rife with traditions in many congregations. Gaudete Sunday gets its name from
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This Week’s Message
I don’t think “peace and quiet” is what Isaiah meant when he conveyed God’s message, “Comfort, O comfort my people…” Or, more specifically, I don’t
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This Week’s Message
It’s here! The season of waiting we’ve all been waiting for is here! Too much? Probably. But nonetheless, this first Sunday of Advent comes with
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This Week’s Message
If the Sunday before Thanksgiving invited us to look at the community and the family that surrounds us, this Sunday encourages us to look up
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This Week’s Message
This week we turn to that familiar passage from Philippians: “Rejoice in the Lord always; again, I will say, Rejoice” (Philippians 4:4). Here again, we
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This Week’s Message
Three weeks before the end of the liturgical year, and we turn to gratitude as the guiding theme for worship. What does a life of
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This Week’s Message
All Saints Sunday will be a glorious celebration of the body of Christ in our local context. There is no church like ours, no collection
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We continue to envision what it would be like to live in the kin-dom of God as a community of faith. But this week, we
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This Week’s Message
The invitation this week is to adjust our vision. We are called to see God in the world in which we live. We are called to
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This Week’s Message
The theme this week might seem harsh. It might also lead us to point fingers at those out there or over there who are stiff-necked.
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