by MCCDC-Dale | Jan 26, 2017 | Calendar, Current Events & News, EBLAST, Events
“Do justice and love kindness.” ~ Micah 6:8 The call of the prophet Micah sparks right action. Those words greet us every time we enter the Welcome Hall at MCCDC. They are inscribed on the beautiful plaque that was presented along with our sanctuary altar to MCCDC in...
by MCCDC-Dale | Jan 21, 2017 | Calendar, Current Events & News, EBLAST, Events
“Hold fast to dreams For if dreams die Life is a broken-winged bird That cannot fly. Hold fast to dreams For when dreams go Life is a barren field Frozen with snow.” ~ “Dreams,” by Langston Hughes (1902-1967) The inauguration of the president elect is in the rearview....
by MCCDC-Dale | Jan 12, 2017 | Calendar, Current Events & News, EBLAST, Events
“Be wise as serpents, and harmless as doves.” ~Matthew 10:16 Now more than ever MCCDC is called to be a place that develops spiritual leaders. The fear inducing and divisive political climate in the United States is having global and personal impact. Hate crimes are...
by MCCDC-Dale | Jan 5, 2017 | Calendar, Current Events & News, EBLAST, Events
“As we hallow our time with priorities, commitments, tasks, and relationships that acknowledge and bless God’s presence in daily affairs, we will find holiness in time.” ~J. S. Mogabgab We are only five days into 2017 and the “to do” lists are already overflowing. A...
by MCCDC-Dale | Dec 28, 2016 | Calendar, Current Events & News, EBLAST, Events
“Listen to your life. See it for the fathomless mystery it is. In the boredom and pain of it, no less than in the excitement and gladness: touch, taste, smell your way to the holy and hidden heart of it, because in the last analysis all moments are key moments, and...
by MCCDC-Dale | Dec 22, 2016 | Calendar, Current Events & News, EBLAST, Events
“Sing a new song to the Eternal One, who has worked wonders, whose right hand and holy arm have brought deliverance! The Eternal One has made salvation known and shown divine justice to the nations. .. Shout to the Most High, all the earth, break into joyous songs of...
by MCCDC-Dale | Dec 15, 2016 | Calendar, Current Events & News, EBLAST, Events
“Love is born in every act of compassion and justice.” ~ D. S. Jakota Today, many around the world are praying for Aleppo. Hearts are heavy as tens of thousands of trapped civilians gasp for breath in a war zone. Since Monday of this week, many have been posting...
by MCCDC-Dale | Dec 8, 2016 | Calendar, Current Events & News, EBLAST, Events
“God in Jesus came not as the victorious conqueror that many then—and perhaps some now—wished he would. Rather, Jesus came and comes as Emmanuel, God with us, the one who does not eliminate all our troubles but accompanies us through them; the one who holds onto us...
by MCCDC-Dale | Nov 30, 2016 | Calendar, Current Events & News, EBLAST, Events
“God is in the advent wilderness of this holy season. God knows what I look like in my bathrobe, all alone late at night. And never once has God suggested that the sight is pathetic. Instead, in those empty hours God says, ‘Talk to me. Then be still and know that I am...
by MCCDC-Dale | Nov 23, 2016 | Calendar, Current Events & News, EBLAST, Events
he classroom, with all its limitations, remains a location of possibility. In that field of possibility we have the opportunity to labor for freedom, to demand of ourselves and our comrades, an openness of mind and heart that allows us to face reality even as we...
