Posts with the tag “this-we-believe”

The current moment is all we have and it is all we need because we know that the future is in God’s hands.   Read More

The Kingdom of God is a reality that we glimpse throughout our life times as God’s future hopes for the world break into our current moments.  Read More

this is exactly God’s plan. To reconcile all of creation back to God; to bring wholeness to all people  Read More

If Jesus rose in his physical body than that also indicates that we will be fully restored in the resurrection.   Read More

Through Jesus’ death and resurrection, God is communicating to the world that death is not an ending.  Read More

We are the ongoing reality of Jesus’ Resurrection.  Read More

God allows humans free will and freedom and yet all too often, this freedom is abused and results in acts of evil. This reality is what Jesus was confronting through his suffering on the cross.   Read More

The Creator of the Universe is present in human form, dies on the cross at Calvary. In this moment, it is revealed to us not just that Jesus suffers for us, but suffers with us.  Read More

The Cross of Christ proclaims to us that God would rather die than condemn us.   Read More

The scriptures are full of stories of times when God took ordinary people or ordinary objects to do something extraordinary.   Read More

During Communion, the bread is blessed, broken, and given to the gathered community. Those movements are also a microcosm of the life of faith.   Read More

Holy Communion is often called the Eucharist, which means “Thanksgiving”. It is a shared meal where the gathered community shares in the very presence of Jesus together.  Read More

Jesus also offers salvation in the way that he revealed to the world, God’s hope for our lives.  Read More

The claim that God became a human being and lived and walked among us is a bold and powerful assertion that invites us to change the way we understand our daily existence.   Read More

The stories contained in the Gospels tell of Jesus’ life where he taught and healed and served others. These stories reveal to us the ways that God has always desired to interact with us.   Read More

God becoming a human being in the person of Jesus carries with it a simple and yet profound message for us today: God is with us.   Read More

The message is clear – the church is the continuation of Christ’s work on earth. God became human in the person of Jesus and this incarnation continues through us.  Read More

The birth of Jesus is this amazing historic moment when God willingly chooses to take on our fragile human existence in a personal way.   Read More

Looking through the stories of scripture it is hard to ignore all of the mistakes and flaws present in the people that God chooses to use to accomplish God’s mission.  Read More

The calling that God extends to each of us is an invitation to engage with God on the work of healing that our world so desperately needs.  Read More

We have each been endowed with a Divine Purpose and a Holy Calling for our lives. It looks different for each person, but that’s because God needs all of us.   Read More

Rather than being pulled into feelings of shame and guilt, taking the time to humbly admit our sinfulness has the power to pull us deeper into an understanding of God’s great love for us.   Read More

While sinfulness is an ongoing part of every person’s life, we are given simple instructions for moving past our mistakes. Our only role is to confess our sins.   Read More

This is still the story for humans today. Most of the time, we know what God desires for us, and yet we still choose to do the opposite.   Read More

I believe that things like recycling, or gardening, or curbing pollution are all spiritual practices that have the ability to more deeply connect us to God.   Read More

God has been present since the very beginning of time itself and somehow exists eternally into the future, even beyond the point when time comes to an end.  Read More

If God is a creating force and all of life is the product of God’s creative action than everything is deserving of our inherent respect and reverence.  Read More

In baptism we are marked as Children of God; we are connected to the ongoing story of the Christian Church; we are forever labeled as the beloved of God. There are so many other voices in our world and in our life that try to tell us different stories.  Read More

The ritual of baptism that we still practice today is the continuation of these stories. It is another example of God using water to bring salvation to an individual.  Read More

Our life of faith begins, not when we finally figure out what it means to believe in God, but rather with a claiming action by God.   Read More