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Sunday, May 24, 2020 In her TheoEd Talk, award-winning author Diana Butler Bass explores how cultivating lives of gratitude can help us more deeply experience the transformative and subversive reign of God in our lives and in this world. *** Sunday, May 17, 2020 Shane...
read moreGo Local – Listening in Conversations with Neighbours
Our next Go Local task is to begin to get to know our neighbours by engaging them in conversations! Read below for more information. Goal: To practice listening well and to meet/get to know your neighbours. Have a conversation with a neighbour. Ask good questions and...
read moreLiturgy Service – Dwelling in the Temple
Creation Reading (From Our World Belongs to God 1-10) As followers of Jesus Christ, living in this world— which some seek to control, and others view with despair— we declare with joy and trust: Our world belongs to God! From the beginning, through all the crises of...
read moreLiturgy Service – Psalm 119:1-8
A Faith Story: Responsive Reading: Leader: What are your dreams, people of God? People: To be filled with laughter; to cry with joy, not with sorrow. Leader: What are your hopes, people of God? People: To be free of the chains that bind us; to shout with thanksgiving,...
read moreLament Service
Read the original post here: https://www.franciscanmedia.org/biblical-laments-prayer-out-of-pain/ Biblical Laments - Prayer out of Pain Michael D. Guinan, OFM, professor of Old Testament, Semitic languages and biblical spirituality at the Franciscan School of Theology...
read moreResources for Grieving Persons
In case you need them, here are some documents and links you can use for yourself or others as you move through the stages and tasks of grief. Bereaved Children Supporting a Grieving Person Nervous System Soothing Exercises Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction Guided...
read moreLecture Service – Luke 10:1-12 (Part 2)
Our message from Sunday, September 22, 2019 came from Karen Wilk, who serves as Team Leader for Go Local, part of Resonate Global Mission, a ministry of the Christian Reformed Church of North America, our denomination. Karen introduced her message to us this way:...
read moreLecture Service – Luke 10:1-12 (Part 1)
Our message from Sunday, September 15, 2019 came from Karen Wilk, who serves as Team Leader for Go Local, part of Resonate Global Mission, a ministry of the Christian Reformed Church of North America, our denomination. Karen introduced her message to us this way: Will...
read moreLiturgy Service – Luke 10:1-12
Scripture - Luke 10:1-12 (New International Version (NIV)) Jesus Sends Out the Seventy-Two 1 After this the Lord appointed seventy-two[a] others and sent them two by two ahead of him to every town and place where he was about to go. 2 He told them, “The harvest is...
read moreLecture Service – Move at the Pace of Guidance
Our message from Sunday, August 11, 2019 came from Pastor Rich Braaksma, who serves The Road Church in Calgary, Alberta. Rich is also our coach for our Go Local process. Rich introduced his message to us this way: Three big, weighty, robust bible words: Time, day,...
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