by MCCDC-Dale | Apr 15, 2021 | Calendar, Current Events & News, EBLAST, Events, Space Rental
“The disciples learn from Torah, from lilies and ravens, from Jesus, and from one another. They are not part of the wider Gentile world that lives by the standards of the Roman Empire; they are disciples who live in a group that shares bread and forgives debt; they...
by MCCDC-Dale | Apr 8, 2021 | Calendar, Current Events & News, EBLAST, Events, Space Rental
“The kingdom of heaven occurs when people take the words of Jesus in the Sermon on the Mount to heart and live into them.” ~Amy-Jill Levine Today is the fifth day of the Great Fifty Days of Easter. The proclamation from this past Sunday continues to echo: “Christ is...
by MCCDC-Dale | Apr 1, 2021 | Calendar, Current Events & News, EBLAST, Events, Space Rental
This Week’s Reflection This Sunday at 9:00 and 11:00 a.m., we will proclaim “Christ is risen! Christ is risen indeed! Alleluia!” We will virtually gather for Resurrection Sunday, the first of The Great Fifty Days of Easter. Our theme is “Love Makes a Way.” How...
by MCCDC-Dale | Mar 25, 2021 | Calendar, Current Events & News, EBLAST, Events, Space Rental
This Week’s Reflection “Rejoice greatly, Daughter Zion. Sing aloud, Daughter Jerusalem. Look, royalty will come to you. Righteous and victorious. Humble and riding on a colt, the offspring of a donkey.”~Zechariah 9:9 This Sunday acknowledges...
by MCCDC-Dale | Mar 18, 2021 | Calendar, Current Events & News, EBLAST, Events, Space Rental
This Week’s Reflection This week’s message is in video format, featuring Rev. Dr. Robin Hawley Gorsline, MCCDC’s Writer-Theologian in Residence. Defending Same-Sex Marriage Rev. Cecilia Eggleston, moderator of the Universal Fellowship of Metropolitan...
by MCCDC-Dale | Mar 11, 2021 | Calendar, Current Events & News, EBLAST, Events, Space Rental
Your love is extravagant, your friendship, it is intimate. Spread wide in the arms of Christ the love that covers sin. No greater love have I ever known, You considered me a friend. Capture my heart again.~Casting Crowns As we continue our Lenten journey this fourth...
by MCCDC-Dale | Mar 4, 2021 | Calendar, Current Events & News, EBLAST, Events, Space Rental
“I’m for truth, no matter who tells it. I’m for justice, no matter who it’s for or against.” ~Malcolm X Truth-telling is no simple feat. Yet, the expectation that we will tell the truth is often part of our upbringing from very early in our lives. We then, often, very...
by MCCDC-Dale | Feb 25, 2021 | Calendar, Current Events & News, EBLAST, Events, Space Rental
“We are true to ourselves and true to you, O God, without apology. Shaped by intimate, healthy relationships with God, we begin to see and know and learn differently. We learn to like and love ourselves, seeing our illumined beauty. As our love for self grows, we are...
by MCCDC-Dale | Feb 18, 2021 | Calendar, Current Events & News, EBLAST, Events, Space Rental
As we enter Lent some are asking, “How are we going to get through this time of pandemics?” Our Lenten theme offers this affirmative response: Love Makes a Way! The purpose of our theme is to explore the central message of our faith: love. What has become a cliché in...
by MCCDC-Dale | Feb 11, 2021 | Calendar, Current Events & News, EBLAST, Events, Space Rental
“. . .I have courted the Beloved long enough to know what it is like to receive a divine visit: it is like coming home after a long time away; it is like being held by someone with all the time in the world; it is like remembering a dream that opens a door.” ~Barbara...
