We need your questions, insight, and engagement in our 2018 Annual Congregational Meeting. A ministry update meeting and a financial update meeting will precede the official meeting.
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Advent is a season of waiting. It is a time when days are short and nights are long. This season of waiting is a time when, much like the people in our passage from Isa, we embrace the profound dissonance between the beauty of God’s promised kingdom and the grotesque injustices of our world.
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A new year beckons. With it come plans for personal change, growth and service, whether we formulate them into “New Year’s resolutions” or not. But with all our plans and hopes, will we find ourselves over-committed and stressed out?
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In this video, step into the perspective of the voiceless, and see clearly how Christ remains a radical and much-needed inbreaking of love and hope this Christmas.
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Beginning January 23rd, Advent will launch a 6-month study for white Christians, exploring the role that white privilege and internalized white superiority has in shaping attitudes, belief systems, cultures and those of the church and society at large.
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The message everywhere is that this holiday season is all about us. But as Christians, we know this Advent/Christmas season is in fact all about God and God’s gift of love and mercy through Jesus. And so, let's give gifts this year to the Christ Child.
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Over the years, as a spiritual practice, I’ve collected an Advent sound track to help me get ready and stay firmly rooted in the Advent season! These are some of my favorites…what are yours?
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Could you or someone you know serve on our Congregational Council next year?
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Joel was in medical school. Pastor Danielle had just finished seminary and had student debt. And Pastor Danielle was looking for a job. So why and how did they do it?
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The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, the love of God and the communion of the Holy Spirit be with you all. And also with you. It is a familiar line for a longtime Lutheran Church goer. In fact, you can find it in almost any service, from everyday Sundays to weddings and funerals. So what is so important about this short section of the service?
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Jesus spoke these words to his disciples, people who would soon experience life without his physical presence. They would be tempted to view life from the perspective of scarcity. They wouldn’t have Jesus . . .
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The challenge: Take one picture of something you are grateful for every day, through Thanksgiving. See our daily pictures here.
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This Thanksgiving season, hear different Advent members give thanks for how God is at work in their lives through this faith community in a series of 2-minute videos.
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Last Tuesday evening, the photographer and three subjects of Abuelas: Portraits of the Invisible Grandmothers visited Advent for a reception and discussion about the collection on display here. Read a reflection on the pieces and an account of the night, with quotes from the photographer and participants.
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The first in a series of explanations about the different elements of our worship service. Some of us gathered have been worshiping our entire lives and some of us are rather new at it, but when God is present, as God is in worship, there is always room for all of us to grow.
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Mark your calendars to join us Sunday, October 29 for worship, intergenerational crafting, food, and community on the 500th anniversary of the Reformation!
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