December 4, 2011 Second Sunday of Advent
The theme for our Advent reflections this year will be Occupy Hope. The title, of course, echoes the surprising Occupy Wall Street movement. Though the sermon series is not meant to glorify that movement, it recognizes that the conversation in our country is changing because of these people who are claiming to speak for “the 99%.” Where do we place our hope? How do we live into hope in this season as we prepare for the coming of the Prince of Peace? We share Holy Communion this morning as part of our Advent preparation.
The Men’s LIFE group meets this morning at 8 am and the Journey class meets after church.
Read: Isaiah 40:1-11, Mark 1:1-8
Sundays in December
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You’re Welcome 11/20/11
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November 20, 2011 You’re Welcome
Did you ever reprimand your kid (or someone close to you) for not saying “Thank you”? Often it goes like this. You’re busy doing some important work; he’s in another room watching TV and he asks you to get him his homework notebook that’s just across the room from him. You decide that because it’s his homework notebook, you’ll ignore the fact that it would be a lot easier for him to get it, and you go and give it to him – and he grunts.
You say, “Hey, you’re welcome!” And then, he may (or may not) say “Thank you.”
The Joshua Generation, Nov. 13, 2011
November 15, 2011 By
November 13, 2011
The Joshua Generation
Dear Joshua,
It is good to have you and your baby buddies, Emily, Sarah, Eleanor, Berkley, Sarah, James, and Conor, as part of our congregation. We love having you here, even when you talk back to the preacher, even when you make noise or disrupt things and make it hard to hear; even when you cry. (We don’t mind if you go in another room to do some of these things, but we’re willing to put up with some disruption because your voices, so fresh from God, remind us that our mission as a congregation includes all generations, including, maybe especially including, generations least represented in our midst. [Read more...]
11-6-11 Value of a Life: All Saints Sunday
November 7, 2011 By
November 6, 2011
Value of a Life: All Saints Sunday
Henrietta Lacks was born in 1920 and died in 1951 at the age of 31. You might not have heard of her, but she has had an important influence on all of our lives. She went to the hospital at the very end of her short life and found out that she had cervical cancer. During the tests, doctors at Johns Hopkins Hospital, took healthy and cancerous cells from her cervix without her permission. After she died and without the knowledge of anyone in her family, researchers began using her cells for all kinds of research. [Read more...]
