“There is one body and one Spirit, just as you were called to one hope when you were called; one Lord, one faith, one baptism; one God and Father of all, who is over all and through all and in all.” – Ephesians 4:4-6 Reading the baptism stories we’ve collected over the past few months has been a reminder […]
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This week is the last week of Lent, the forty days leading up to Easter. Each week we’ve been blessed with a prayer written by our friend Marc Holland from City Life Church in Sacramento. These prayers have given us words to pray throughout the week. We have also been memorizing Psalm 100. By memorizing
Each week during Lent, the forty days leading up to Easter, we’ve been praying a different prayer and working on memorizing a verse of Psalm 100 as a community. The prayer and verse for this week are posted below. Prayer God, your Scriptures reveal how you have served me. Why am I so unappreciative? I
Each week during Lent, the forty days leading up to Easter, we have been praying a different prayer and working on memorizing a verse of Psalm 100 as a community. The prayer and verse for this week are posted below. Prayer To the Maker of Heaven and Earth: My hopes for life are processed through
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Lent, the 40 days before Easter, is a time to develop habits which put off the old self and put on the new, living into our new identity in Christ. As a community we’d like to develop habits of prayer and scripture memorization. Each week we are using a different prayer written by Marc Holland
This year our church has been exploring the practice of baptism and looking together at how baptism shapes our identity. As part of that exploration, we want to spend some time sharing baptism stories with each other. Do you remember your baptism? The baptism of a child? Of a good friend? When was it? What
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20th Anniversary Luncheon, a set on Flickr. Check out pictures from the 20th Anniversary Lunch on April 15. If anyone else has pictures they want to add, please contact the office for flickr upload instructions.
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The psalms Medema sang as a church-going child never left him. One of his most treasured memories is standing nearby his grandfather in church as he sang the Genevan Psalter version of Psalm 42 with overflowing passion and unending enthusiasm. Years after re-entering the church Medema was invited to be the featured musician at a
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Ken Medema had his reasons for dodging the psalms. A child of devout parents, Ken knew he was going to be a musician by the time he entered first grade. When he was eight, some friends asked his parents to store their piano for them. After a few weeks listening to Ken’s unending banging, they
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The Pope was in Jerusalem. Standing at Yad Vashem, the Holocaust Memorial, surrounded by survivors of the Shoah he had been asked to speak. What would he say? What does anyone say at a time like that? Especially, what could a Christian leader say to those tortured and abused by representatives of a self proclaimed
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