by MCCDC-Dale | Jun 3, 2021 | Calendar, Current Events & News, EBLAST, Events, Space Rental
This Week’s Reflection “My prayer became ‘May I find peace. . .May I love this life no matter what.’ I was seeking an inner refuge, an experience of presence and wholeness that could carry me through whatever losses might come.” ~Tara Brach This Sunday is the...
by MCCDC-Dale | May 27, 2021 | Calendar, Current Events & News, EBLAST, Events, Space Rental
This Week’s Reflection “Please savor the Sermon on the Mount. Read the rest of the Scriptures through its teaching and let the texts inform one another. Then share your readings with your friends, and your enemies. If you let the Sermon be your guide, you will...
by MCCDC-Dale | May 20, 2021 | Calendar, Current Events & News, EBLAST, Events, Space Rental
This Week’s Reflection During this time of Eastertide, we have been celebrating, remembering and communing with the risen Christ. Our theme during this period has been Bring Heaven to Earth. Eastertide reminds us that Easter is not a day or an event yet a season...
by MCCDC-Dale | May 13, 2021 | Calendar, Current Events & News, EBLAST, Events, Space Rental
This Week’s Reflection The title of our current worship series, Bring Heaven to Earth, has offered us the opportunity to explore Jesus’ teachings as presented in the Sermon on the Mount Matthew 5-7 and discussed in the book by Professor Amy-Jill Levine. From...
by MCCDC-Dale | May 6, 2021 | Calendar, Current Events & News, EBLAST, Events, Space Rental
“Jesus advises that the disciples not ‘heap up empty phrases’ since God does not need ‘many words’ (Matthew 6:7). God already knows what we want because God is aware of what is in our hearts. The purpose of prayer is not to get God’s attention. We already have God’s...
by MCCDC-Dale | Apr 29, 2021 | Calendar, Current Events & News, EBLAST, Events, Space Rental
We continue our journey through the Sermon on the Mount, guided by Amy-Jill Levine’s book of the same name, and of course our continuing engagement with God, Jesus, the scriptures and other teachers. This Sunday, we will reflect on Matthew 5:17-20 in which Jesus tells...