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All the Feelings

Mary and Martha hit some kind of primitive nerve in most of us. First-born daughters are often Camp Martha, last-born kids love Mary’s way of being in the moment.

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Hope in the Heat: A Faithful Response to a Warming World

But as people of faith, we are not powerless. We are called to be stewards of creation and caretakers of one another.

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Drawn to Compassion

Nearly every culture has mystical stories of compassion. One of my favorites is about a wise woman and a precious gem. We’ll hear about her in the sermon this week. We’ll also listen as Jesus teaches about compassion and what it means to be a neighbor in one of the best-known parables, the Good Samaritan. We all know this timeless tale about a man who is beaten by robbers and left for dead. As the beaten man lay on the side of the road, a priest and a Levite notice…

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Central Youth Heading to Camp

Connecting faith and daily life is a primary goal for wilderness camp experiences. In canoes, on the trail, and in the tents, kids and their adult leaders have an opportunity to talk about faith.

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Vulnerability

Bible scholars for generations have asked what Jesus hoped the disciples would begin to experience when they were sent out, two-by-two, and commanded to “carry no purse, no bag, no sandals.” Jesus sent them to share peace. They are to trust in the hospitality of local folks on their journey. Jesus invited them into one of the complex realities of our lives as the followers of Jesus: vulnerability. Vulnerability may be the true essence of our lives as human beings. When we embrace our vulnerability, we experience the depth of…

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Single-mindedness

If you were asked to name one word that might define Jesus’ single-mindedness, what might that word be? Many of us would name love.

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A Witness in Community

This weekend we gather for worship knowing that in times of heartache and violence and mourning that we need to be in community. The Church is Christ’s body on Earth and when we are at our best, we can be a community for healing and wholeness and love.

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New Art Show at Central

The Fine Arts Ministry Team presents a new art show in the South Entry Hall: Vie de Jesus Mafa (Life of Jesus Mafa). Take a moment to learn more about this awesome new show! Vie de Jesus Mafa (Life of Jesus Mafa) was an initiative undertaken in the 1970s to help teach the Gospel in Northern Cameroon. The initiative was spearheaded by French Catholic missionary François Vidil. He worked with Mafa Christian communities in Cameroon to create a catalogue of paintings depicting the life of Jesus as an African man…

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A Relational God

This weekend, we celebrate the Holy Trinity. We give thanks for the presence of a creating, redeeming, and sustaining God. We baptize in the name of this Triune God, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. The Trinity is how the early church sought to describe their experience of God. When we confess a Triune God, we are naming a mystery and celebrating a relational God. In the hymn, “Come, Join the Dance of Trinity,” Richard Leach tries to capture the energy of the Trinity in the first stanza of the hymn:…

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