The Work that Works On Us

Scripture: Amos 5:18-24The prophet Amos challenges us to ask, what is changed in our worship? If we are not changed, are not invited to live out God’s justice, is it worship? How does that justice which rolls down like waters shape and reshape us through all the years?

Saints, Blessed and Broken

Scripture: Matthew 5:1-12As Jesus declares blessing over categories of folk who have known sorrow and challenge, we see in the saints of our lives the gift of those who find in their own pain or grief the calling to deeper love, connection, and hope.

The Mirror: Beyond the Frame

Scripture: Matthew 22:34-46In the wake of the recent shooting in Maine, we struggle with how to remember what is core to our experience and our purpose, so we return to Jesus’s Greatest Commandment(s). As we seek to more fully love God and love our neighbor as ourselves, how are we also being challenged to love … Read more

The Mirror: Seeing Oneness

Scripture: Philippians 4:1-9Remembering the diversity of leadership of the early church, we are all called to rejoice in gifts and talents that cannot be contained by a binary as we welcome Maine TransNet to share their work with us.

The Mirror: Old Images

Scripture: Philippians 3:4b-14As we look to the image of Christ as a mirror that shows us who we can be, sometimes the hardest challenge is letting go the image of ourselves we had in the past. In a time in which ancient tensions are exploding in new violence, how can we release the past to … Read more