Today we're rolling out an updated look for the church that we hope captures the essence of our mission and vision....
Morning Prayer of the One Who Already Feels Behind...
Jesus speaks of a world where your value isn’t based on what you can get but on what you give. A world where your value isn’t based on what you can gain for those on top of society but what you can do for those on the bottom of society. A world where value isn’t assigned based on what you do but what you do for....
For our next service project, Spirit and Life will be collecting specific items to be used in filling Cleaning Buckets which we will donate for hurricane relief. The buckets will be used by the United Methodist Committee on Relief (UMCOR) to help victims of hurricanes in their effort to recover from the devastating effects of the storms. Last year, UMCOR exhausted their supply of these buckets due to the major hurricanes our country sustained....
For our next service project, Spirit and Life will be collecting specific items to be used in filling Cleaning Buckets which we will donate for hurricane relief. The buckets will be used by the United Methodist Committee on Relief (UMCOR) to help victims of hurricanes in their effort to recover from the devastating effects of the storms. Last year, UMCOR exhausted their ...
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We are a humble church, with no grand building to house our family on Sundays but we are rich in authenticity and strong in our bonds to one another. When we sing and pray it really feels as if we do so in a manner that worships god rather than revels in our own magnificence. We worship authentically and we worship biblically. That is what compelled my family to join Spi...
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This article is one in of a series that discusses our core values. At Spirit & Life, we seek to be in relationship with each other as encounter Jesus invites us into relationship with God. We seek to accept everyone God calls into relationship with our community....
Keep ReadingThis Advent I have been using God is in the Manger: Reflections on Advent and Christmas from Dietrich Bonhoeffer as my Advent devotional. The third week has centered around Redemption and what it means for, in Jesus Christ and the baby born in Bethlehem, our redemption to draw near. Included this week was an excerpt from a sermon Bonhoeffer preached when he was serving a c...
Keep ReadingThe second week of Advent devotions in God is in the Manger: Reflections on Advent and Christmas from Dietrich Bonhoeffer centered around the theme of mystery. Once again reading these reflections caused me to pause and reflect upon the mystery of God's love for us made known to us in Jesus Christ. That was particularly true when reading Monday's reflection which said: Th...
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