Is it sometimes difficult to understand what is being said during worship? If so, don’t be shy and let one of the ushers know. We are now blessed to have SIX assisted listening devices rather than just two, as well as fresh, comfortable headphones to boot.
“What have we got on the spacecraft that’s good?”
I was inspired in a meeting earlier this morning by a series of clips from the film Apollo 13 just after the “Houston, we have a problem” moment. This is the time in the story when it became clear things had gone very, very wrong. Though initially scheduled to land on the moon, the mission changed in an …
It Bends Toward Justice
What is going on in this world we have been given? It’s a question we often ask wordlessly with a head shake or a sigh. Christians generally hold to a particular hope we affirm in the Creeds and each month at Communion table – “Christ has died, Christ is risen, Christ will come again.” We …
Better to Receive Than to Give?
As radio telescopes grow more powerful (and more numerous), astronomers keep stumbling across strange things. Just yesterday astronomers in Canada shared something inexplicable: a “fast radio burst” (FRB) from deep space, 1.5 billion light years away. No one knows yet what to make of these FRBs, more and more frequent in recent years. Sometimes they aren’t even …
Seeing in the Dark
Arise! Shine! Your light has come; the Lord’s glory has shone upon you. Though darkness covers the earth and gloom the nations, the Lord will shine upon you; God’s glory will appear over you. Isaiah 60:1-2 (CEB) I start each day with pretty much the same routine: wake up, get the coffee brewing, read the Upper Room and also the Upper Room …