
Peace, Joy, and Love in a Broken World
God is still at work amid the pain, amid the cruelty. And, we are invited as Christians to join in God’s redeeming work in the world, working toward a society where all are honored and respected and loved.
God is still at work amid the pain, amid the cruelty. And, we are invited as Christians to join in God’s redeeming work in the world, working toward a society where all are honored and respected and loved.
With a commitment to unity, and the solid foundations of dignity, honesty, and humility that such unity requires, we can do our part to help realize the ideals and the dream of America.
We are workers, not master builders; ministers, not messiahs. We are prophets of a future not our own.
God wants our communities of faith to be parties so compelling that no one can see us and deny the truth of love, the goodness of this life.
We believe that God reveals that Jesus Christ is the beloved, the sign of a new way of being in the world. What will that mean for us?
Epiphany gives us a chance to live our lives in response to this revelation, this manifestation, this glory of God made flesh.
There is a hope bigger than our despair, a hope based in the incarnation of Christmas and in the faithfulness and abundant love of God.
No one has ever seen God, but we have seen his glory, full of grace and truth, come through the Word made flesh, Jesus Christ.
We have much to be outrageously joyful about: the Almighty Creator God came to be with us and continues to be with us, this and every day.
That is the message of Christmas: God is love, God chose and chooses to be with us, and now we need merely to love, and love abundantly.
Our encounter with Jesus must change us for the better of ourselves and our community... Only he is the answer to our deepest longings.
All of us are to be outward and visible signs of the grandeur and beauty of God in service, in eldering, in oversight, for the sake of all.