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  • Kids Korner: Preparing ourselves (Dec. 3rd)

    Read Mark 13:24-37 with your family. We have started a new Christian year, and this year we are learning about Jesus from the Gospel of Mark. There is a pattern to Advent readings: Week 1 we talk about getting ready for Jesus’ coming, Week 2 & 3 we talk about John the Baptist and his…

  • Sunday Reflection – November 26, 2023

    Separating the sheep from the goats Matthew 25 31  When the Son of Man comes in his glory with all his angels, he will sit on his royal throne. 32 The people of all nations will be brought before him, and he will separate them, as shepherds separate their sheep from their goats. 33 He will place the sheep on…

  • Kids Korner: Showing kindness to others (Nov. 26th)

    Read Matthew 25:31-46 with your family. Today’s story is one of the last lessons Jesus taught his followers, and he taught it for all people: When we do things to make life better for others, we are doing it for Jesus too. Our Christian faith believes God came to us as a baby and was…

  • Sunday Reflection – November 19, 2023

    God’s gifts are to be shared Matthew 25 14 “For it will be like a man going on a journey, who called his servants and entrusted to them his property. 15 To one he gave five talents, to another two, to another one, to each according to his ability. Then he went away. 16 He who had received the five talents went at once and traded with…

  • Kids Korner: Sharing the gifts of God (Nov. 19th)

    Read Matthew 25:14-30 with your family. All of the stories Jesus told had exaggerations in them to make people listen for the meaning of the story. Today’s story talks about giving money and investing it, but it really wasn’t about the money. The way we can know that is because the money amounts were so…

  • Sunday Reflection – November 12, 2023

    Do not make yourselves important Matthew 25 The kingdom of heaven is like what happened one night when ten young women took their oil lamps and went to a wedding to meet the groom. 2 Five of them were foolish and five were wise. 3 The foolish ones took their lamps, but no extra oil. 4 The ones who were wise took…

  • Kids Korner: Be prepared, be ready (Nov.12th)

    Read Matthew 25:1-12 with your family. In the last chapters of the Gospel of Matthew, there are a lot of parables telling us that some will be left out of God’s promise. That has made Christians over our history think we are better than everyone else, and that is wrong. The people hearing these stories…

  • Sunday Reflection – November 5, 2023

    Do not make yourselves important Matthew 23 Jesus said to the crowds and to his disciples: 2 The Pharisees and the teachers of the Law are experts in the Law of Moses. 3 So obey everything they teach you, but don’t do as they do. After all, they say one thing and do something else. 4 They pile heavy burdens…

  • Kids Korner: Lead differently (Nov. 5th)

    Read Matthew 23:1-12 with your family. Jesus spent a lot of time telling the pharisees and other temple leaders to do a better job at leading the people. In this passage Jesus turn to the people and tells them to learn from the mistakes of those who are leaders in the temple, and when they…

  • All Hallowed, All Saints, All Souls

    Those of us in low church traditions are rarely taught about the three days of celebration that takes us from October 31st until November 2nd. We don’t learn about saints or our place in that number. Far too often we are taught to disregard anyone the high church traditions (Roman Catholic, Orthodox, etc) revere, calling…