by MCCDC-Dale | Apr 21, 2022 | Calendar, Current Events & News, EBLAST, Events, Space Rental
This Week’s Reflection What does it mean to be filled to the brim and overflowing with encouragement? Encouragement brings hope and hope causes fears to subside. God calls us to be filled with hope, allowing the cares of this world to fall away. Our hope is in...
by MCCDC-Dale | Apr 14, 2022 | Calendar, Current Events & News, EBLAST, Events, Space Rental
This Week’s Reflection “An expansive life means we are fully present to awe, beauty, and pain. We know our self-worth is rooted in God’s love. We live full to the brim with grace and gratitude.” ~Larissa Kwong Abazia The resurrection is an invitation to live...
by MCCDC-Dale | Apr 7, 2022 | Calendar, Current Events & News, EBLAST, Events, Space Rental
This Week’s Reflection “Life is so beautiful. Life is so hard.” ~Kate Bowler How can life change so quickly? Dan Clendenin in his webzine “Journey with Jesus” introduced me to Kate Bowler. At age 35, she was advancing quickly in her career as an assistant...
by MCCDC-Dale | Mar 31, 2022 | Calendar, Current Events & News, EBLAST, Events, Space Rental
This Week’s Reflection On winter morning walks I pass a bed of roses. I dare not pick one. Instead, I say thank you. Thank you for the beauty. Thank you for the reminder.Thank you for the bloom. And I walk home and pray God, if you can, make me that brave. ~Poem...
by MCCDC-Dale | Mar 24, 2022 | Calendar, Current Events & News, EBLAST, Events, Space Rental
This Week’s Reflection “Every time God’s active, stretching, searching, healing love finds someone and calls that person back home, it does not mean there is less for the rest of us. It means there is more. More wine. More eating. More music. More dancing. It...
by MCCDC-Dale | Mar 17, 2022 | Calendar, Current Events & News, EBLAST, Events, Space Rental
This Week’s Reflection “All pursuits are pointless and fruitless unless and until love and compassion are found and then are the foundation and destination of all you do.” ~Rasheed Ogunlaru There is little more frustrating than wasting two hours at an...
by MCCDC-Dale | Mar 10, 2022 | Calendar, Current Events & News, EBLAST, Events, Space Rental
This Week’s Reflection “God is your refuge. There is nothing that can separate you from God, or could keep God from gathering you in, protecting you fiercely. No matter how much we try to separate ourselves from God, God will run to protect us. God’s love for us...
by MCCDC-Dale | Mar 3, 2022 | Calendar, Current Events & News, EBLAST, Events, Space Rental
This Week’s Reflection “When we open ourselves to be filled to the brim with God’s lavish love, that love spills over. It reaches beyond ourselves; like water, it rushes and flows, touching everything in its path.” ~Rev. Larissa Kwong Abazia” The Season of...
by MCCDC-Dale | Feb 24, 2022 | Calendar, Current Events & News, EBLAST, Events, Space Rental
This Week’s Reflection Magnify the Lord or God! Bow low at God’s Holy Mountain because the Lord our God is holy! ~Psalm 99:9 This Sunday is “Transfiguration Sunday.” In the story found in Luke 9:28-36, we, along with disciples Peter, James, and...
by MCCDC-Dale | Feb 17, 2022 | Calendar, Current Events & News, EBLAST, Events, Space Rental
This Week’s Reflection Jesus is radical. If you doubt this, I encourage you to read Luke 6:27-38. Here is just part of that teaching: “To you who hear me, I say: love your enemies. Do good to those who hate you, bless those who curse you, and pray for those who...
