by MCCDC-Dale | Jun 24, 2021 | Calendar, Current Events & News, EBLAST, Events, Space Rental
This Week’s Reflection In the Gospels, we find many stories of those seeking to have an encounter with Jesus—to get his attention and have an interaction with him. In our scripture this week (Mark 5), we find this to be true of a woman who is ill with...
by MCCDC-Dale | Jun 17, 2021 | Calendar, Current Events & News, EBLAST, Events, Space Rental
This Week’s Reflection “Peace I leave with you, My peace I give to you; not as the world gives do I give to you. Let not your heart by troubled, neither let it be afraid.” ~Jesus (John 14:27) Our hearts long for peace. In the push, pull and stress of this world,...
by MCCDC-Dale | Jun 10, 2021 | Calendar, Current Events & News, EBLAST, Events, Space Rental
“No pride for some of us without liberation for all of us.” ~ Marsha P. Johnson, Trans Activist influencing the Stonewall uprising Happy Pride. The season we are choosing to recognize as “Pridetide” is upon us once again. It is a time globally to...
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...
