Why Worship?

Why Worship?

This article begins a series that will focus on the whys of worship. Over the next several months, I will focus on the big question: why worship? as well as examining the whys of the various parts of the worship service (i.e. why sharing of the peace, why communion,...
Love is…

Love is…

If I speak in the tongues of mortals and of angels, but do not have love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but do not have love,...
StarWords

StarWords

For the second year, we are going to undertake the spiritual practice of receiving a StarWord. On January 8, during worship you will be invited to come forward to choose a star with your guiding word for the year. You can let the Spirit do her work and with eyes...
A New Experiment

A New Experiment

As you bring your children to receive the gift of baptism, you are entrusted with responsibilities: to live with them among God’s faithful people, bring them to the word of God and the holy supper, teach them the Lord’s Prayer, the Creed, and the Ten...
A Month of Sundays

A Month of Sundays

Only four weeks left…four weeks left of summer BBQs and lazy days on the river; four weeks left of kids running in the sprinkler and cool evening hikes up Spencer’s Butte; four weeks left of family vacations and watermelon rinds tossed in the bushes; four weeks...