Easter Service
L: Out of the earth Rises light, Rises life, Rises spring. All: May we join with the iracle that is springtime and enter into life with lightness and joy.
Maundy Thursday
L: Come and remember the love of Jesus, gathered at table with his friends. All: We come to receive from Christ the bread of life, the cup of blessing;
Restoration – Fifth Sunday in Lent
Focus: Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul. – John Muir Threshold Moment: A Time for Centering Welcome: The demands of following Jesus are great. He shows us that sometimes we must make extraordinary efforts to move in a […]
Creativity and Healing – Fourth Sunday in Lent
Focus: A single event can awaken within us a stranger totally unknown to us. To live is to be slowly born.” ― Antoine de Saint-Exupery Threshold Moment: (Video) Welcome: Prolonged times of difficulty can impede our ability to stay creative. The picture of our lives is dulled and hope for a brighter future can fade. We need […]
Stories – Third Sunday in Lent
Focus: “There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.” — Maya Angelou Threshold Moment: Centering Time (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yFjNxztJFKg&feature=emb_logo) Welcome: Gathering Music: Healing Hands (by Cheryl Sager) — Cheryl Sager & Neal Zweig Opening Prayer of Confession: Let us acknowledge our need to restore, repair, and renew ourselves in body, mind and […]
“Safe Keeping” – Second Sunday in Lent
Focus: “The greatness of a community is most accurately measured by the compassionate actions of its members.”
– Coretta Scott King
“Treasure” – First Sunday in Lent
Focus: It is by going down into the abyss that we recover the treasures of life. Where you stumble, there lies your treasure. —Joseph Campbell
“Love” – You are welcome here
Focus: “In the flush of love’s light / we dare be brave / and suddenly we see / that love costs all we are / and will ever be. / Yet it is only love which sets us free.” —Dr. Maya Angelou in her poem “Touched by an Angel.” […]
“Where Can I Go?”
Focus: Threshold Moment: Winter’s Light by Tim Janishttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9eyr6GVeLno&t=96s Welcome: This week’s Psalm brings home this message: we are in an intimate relationship with God. There is nowhere we go that God is not present–no state of our being that results in our being abandoned. God has knit us together, has woven us, knowing us from before our […]
Hope and Healing
Focus: “Our wounds are often the openings into the best and most beautiful part of us.” ― David Richo Welcome: Music: God Is Holding Your Life (by Richard Bruxvoort Colligan) ― Michelle Currie Call To Worship:One: Breath of God, you are the onein whom we live and move and have our being.All: And we are the ones […]