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 | Mar 31, 2016 | Calendar, Current Events & News, EBLAST, Events
THIS SUNDAY A NEW REALITY “Relationship with God is not immune to the surprises and costs of our daily life. The dominant ideology of our culture is committed to continuity and success and to the avoidance of pain, hurt, and loss. The dominant culture is also...
by MCCDC-Dale | Mar 24, 2016 | Calendar, Current Events & News, EBLAST, Events
LIFE DESPITE DYING “Let us pray with everything within us that the bad things happening in our world not blind us to the opportunity for peace or the all-including love of God. Let us pray that the violence we, as a human family, have once again experienced,...
by MCCDC-Dale | Mar 17, 2016 | Calendar, Current Events & News, EBLAST, Events
PALMS & PASSION: NEW WAYS OF BEING ALIVE “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. She is 35 years old and...
by MCCDC-Dale | Mar 11, 2016 | Calendar, Current Events & News, EBLAST, Events
FIFTH SUNDAY IN LENT: COME HOME WITH JOYFUL SHOUTS “Joy is found through facing and enduring suffering until one is able, however briefly, to forget oneself through wonder at the world and service to others.” ~ Anne Ramirez The season of Lent weaves...
