by MCCDC-Dale | Apr 13, 2017 | Calendar, Current Events & News, EBLAST, Events, Space Rental
“Mary brings her tears to the tomb and leaves celebrating new life.” ~ Ayanna Johnson Watkins On Tuesday night at Bible Study Dr. Veronica Franklin led a wonderful session on “life” and the many ways life is presented throughout the scriptures. She asked the question,...
by MCCDC-Dale | Apr 6, 2017 | Calendar, Current Events & News, EBLAST, Events, Space Rental
Blessed are hearts that can bend; they shall never be broken.” ~ Albert Camus This Sunday we are going to Jerusalem. There, in Jerusalem, we will enter a love story. It is a love story from the heart of Jesus. As told in Matthew’s gospel, the path to...
by MCCDC-Dale | Mar 31, 2017 | Calendar, Current Events & News, EBLAST, Events, Space Rental
Jesus said, “Live ecstatically. Move out of that place of death and toward life because I am the God who is living. Wherever I am, there is life, there is change, there is growth, there is increase and blossoming and something new. I am going to make everything...
by MCCDC-Dale | Mar 23, 2017 | Calendar, Current Events & News, EBLAST, Events
Join us in prayer and action. MCC Interim Moderator Rachelle Brown writes… Transgender Day of Visibility is coming March 31. What are your plans? How are you going to engage the community, schools, children, parents, and people of faith this month, and the next, and...
by MCCDC-Dale | Mar 16, 2017 | Calendar, Current Events & News, EBLAST, Events
Eternal Waters “Jesus is the one in whose presence you know who you really are—the good and bad of it, the all of it, the hope in it.” ~Barbara Brown Taylor In the Gospels we listen in on many of Jesus’ conversations. John 4:5-42, the text for this Sunday, is...
by MCCDC-Dale | Mar 9, 2017 | Calendar, Current Events & News, EBLAST, Events
“How we live becomes part of our conversation with God, and our words and actions form a response to our having been not only created, but loved.” ~ M. O’ Laughlin Who you are matters to God. What you do to bring more love into the world also matters to God. That’s...
by MCCDC-Dale | Mar 2, 2017 | Calendar, Current Events & News, EBLAST, Events
“I Don’t need to be afraid when I succumb to temptation. I can simply begin again. In Lent, and anytime.” ~ Nurya Love Parish We are in the early days of the 40 days of Lent. Where is the Spirit leading you for these 40 days preceding Easter? And why...
by MCCDC-Dale | Feb 23, 2017 | Calendar, Current Events & News, EBLAST, Events
“. . .I’ve been to the mountaintop. . .I just want to do God’s will. And God’s allowed me to go up to the mountain. And I’ve looked over. And I’ve seen the Promised Land. “ ~Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr, April 3, 1968, Memphis, TN Throughout Black History Month we...
by MCCDC-Dale | Feb 16, 2017 | Calendar, Current Events & News, EBLAST, Events
“I believe that Spirit is one and is everywhere present. That it never leaves me. That in my ignorance I may withdraw from it, but I can realize its presence the instant I return to my senses. It is this belief in a power larger than myself and other than myself which...
by MCCDC-Dale | Feb 9, 2017 | Calendar, Current Events & News, EBLAST, Events
This Sunday, we continue with Jesus teaching on the mount (Matthew 5:21-37), but now he is getting more specific. He speaks directly and powerfully about reconciliation, adultery, divorce, and making oaths. Some of this teaching can make us uncomfortable, perhaps...
