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...
by MCCDC-Dale | Apr 22, 2021 | Calendar, Current Events & News, EBLAST, Events, Space Rental
“We are each other’s harvest; we are each other’s business; we are each other’s magnitude and bond.” ~Gwendolyn Brooks As the responses to the Minneapolis verdict continue, I’ve been thinking about the above quote by poet Gwendolyn Brooks. She holds the honor of being...
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...
