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Pastor’s Column – Apr 2025
Have you ever looked into the eyes of another person and, in an instant, felt accepted, loved, and seen? No words. No gesture. They look past your appearance without a drop of judgment. They embrace you at a soul level just by looking into your eyes. Our son’s first and middle name is Jamie Lane. We hid an Easter egg in the pronunciation if you say it together. Elaine, Jessica’s grandma’s name, had this gift to look into the eyes…
Pastor’s Column – Feb 2021
We used faith as a shield against the false notion that anyone has the power to inflict pain, limitation, despair, or any condition upon us. We in the movement decided to actualize our belief that the hatred we experienced was not based on any truth, but was actually an illusion in the minds of those who hated us. -pg. 25 Across That Bridge: A Vision for Change and the Future of America, by John Lewis I have been praying this…
Faith Promise/Time and Talent
This Sunday we will celebrate Stewardship Sunday. As part of our annual Stewardship campaign, we also ask you to consider how you might be interested in sharing your time and other talents (not just your money) with Grace United Church of Christ in the coming year. We will be sending out the standard paper forms, but this year, we also are offering the option to submit your time and talent info online, see below. Loading…
From the Pastor….
Grace United Church of Christ Love, Leadership, Fun/Joy, Faith, Welcoming community Experiencing God’s grace, Seeking God’s mission, Sharing God’s love… From the pastor… Christ is risen! He is risen indeed! Alleluia! Easter blessings abound… Grace United Church of Christ is a great place filled with family, friends, and fellowship, love, mission, baptismal promises, and worship. We gather to hear God’s word of hope and we share with our actions, God’s deeds. Our mission statement: Experiencing God’s grace, Seeking God’s mission,…
Some thoughts
My dear Grace UCC family, What a year this has been… one filled with grace and love, one filled with compassion and wonder, one filled with faith and growth, one filled with God. I was called by God many years ago to ordained ministry, as Pastor and Teacher. For a while I didn’t listen to God’s call on my life, I didn’t want to. I wanted to do something else, be something else, live something else. But God is a…
Gratitude
I am blessed.. I am so grateful for so many things. Today I want to say thank you to those who have taught me the faith, and those that continue to teach me the faith. I am thankful for my friends, my classmates, my family, my church, and those churches that have nurtured me I want to take this opportunity to thank some people in my life who have been my pastor… I really appreciate the love and care that…
From the pastor
“Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen. Indeed, by faith…. By faith…. By faith… therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us also lay aside every weight and the sin that clings so closely, and let us run with perseverance the race that is set before us…” Hebrews 11-12 You see as we immerse ourselves in the faith that we have been taught, and the faith…
Some thoughts on compassion…
I have been doing lots of thinking and observing, one thing I have noticed is how compassionate and caring we are to those who we know, those who are part of our community. This gives me great hope. We are blessed that we notice when people aren’t here, and we go check on them. AND that is truly amazing! We are living into our core values. Now it is also time to open ourselves up and move out of our…
Fall time…
From the pastor…. Autumn… Fall…, is my most favorite time of year. Not sure why, maybe it is because by the time September rolls around I am tired of the hot weather, and the no schedule. Don’t get me wrong, I love summer and the time of vacations and new places, of late night talks and visits to the beach. But there is something about fall that calls me back to mystery of faith and life. The colors change, the…
Core Values: Part 4 – Faith
This blog post for our Core Values series is based on one of the central ideas of all of Christianity: faith. It almost seems redundant to call this a central idea of Christianity, because faith itself is often defined as a set of ideas. Throughout the Gospels, Jesus encourages his disciples to believe in him as the Messiah, and that through this belief we gain eternal life (John 5:24). This is only part of the picture of faith that the…