by MCCDC-Dale | May 22, 2025 | Calendar, Current Events & News, EBLAST, Events, Space Rental
“Peace I leave with you; my peace I give to you; but the kind of peace I give you is not like the world’s peace. Don’t let your hearts be distressed; don’t be fearful. “ ~John 14:27 Jesus weaves peace through the guidance of the Holy Spirit. This peace is not the...
by MCCDC-Dale | May 15, 2025 | Calendar, Current Events & News, EBLAST, Events, Space Rental
“These days I find myself reflecting on fierce and mighty love: the kind that steps up, stands strong, and marches alongside, no matter what. A love that stares down monsters, thrusts a lantern into the deep night, and holds on tight to the rope when life’s storms...
by MCCDC-Dale | May 8, 2025 | Calendar, Current Events & News, EBLAST, Events, Space Rental
Peter knelt and prayed and said, “Tabitha, get up!” ~Acts 9:40 God provides us with what we need to get up. Down times are a part of life, a part of being human. And they are not intended to become a lifestyle. When we go through the down night of the soul, the...
by MCCDC-Dale | May 1, 2025 | Calendar, Current Events & News, EBLAST, Events, Space Rental
“Rather than focusing on the obstacle in your path, focus on the bridge over the obstacle”-Mary Lou Retton I have always been a lover of bridges as they are a powerful spiritual image to me, a reminder of both the price Jesus paid for our salvation, and...
by MCCDC-Dale | Apr 24, 2025 | Calendar, Current Events & News, EBLAST, Events, Space Rental
God has been intimately involved with the affairs of God’s creation since the beginning. In Solomon’s case as a child king, God asked Solomon what do you want me to do for you? Solomon at age 12 asked God for wisdom to lead God’s people; and God honored his unselfish...
by MCCDC-Dale | Apr 17, 2025 | Calendar, Current Events & News, EBLAST, Events, Space Rental
“I can think of no greater vocation as a person of faith than to speak honestly about death, trusting in that even deeper reality of God’s resurrection.” ~Rachel Mann The resurrection is an invitation to experience God as our All and All and Everything in Between. We...
by MCCDC-Dale | Apr 10, 2025 | Calendar, Current Events & News, EBLAST, Events, Space Rental
With Holy Week we are on a journey that holds within it the fullness of the human story—the highs, the lows, the hopes, the fears. In the span of seven days, we do it all: we praise, process, break bread, wash feet, make promises, break promises, deny, betray,...
by MCCDC-Dale | Apr 3, 2025 | Calendar, EBLAST, Events, Space Rental
You could call me out. You could hang me out to dry. You could list my sins. You could shrink me down to size. Or, you could call me in. You could grab my hand. You could show me what I missed. ~Call Me In by Sanctified Arts As we live and move about in our own...
by MCCDC-Dale | Mar 27, 2025 | Calendar, Current Events & News, EBLAST, Events
At times, we may feel as though our lives have a kind of ebb and flow of missing and found patterns—in one moment we might feel like we have it all together, and in the next, we’re struggling to survive. The promise of this parable is that no matter how “lost” we...
by Sheila Chittams | Mar 20, 2025 | Calendar, Current Events & News, EBLAST, Events, Space Rental
On the occasion of my first message at MCCDC, the main takeaway will be that God gives us strength and grace to overcome our circumstances and meets us in the space between fear and faith, compassion and contempt. I hope my sermon will do the following: Give hope and...