One of my favorite hymns to sing after Easter is “Easter People, Raise Your Voices.” There’s something about that opening line that captures the whole spirit of this season. Easter isn’t just one day....  Read More

Today our worship series theme about journey takes on a very literal journey for Jesus. It likely felt like both the end and the beginning. Such are so many moments of our lives. A pilgrimage may rea...  Read More

Michael Bayard Woods was born on July 14, 1947 on North Island Air Station in San Diego, CA. Growing up mostly between Pacific Beach and El Cajon, CA, surrounded by love and music, Michael had a go...  Read More

Our worship series leads us along the path of our faith journey in a way that leads to new life in Jesus Christ, the message of Easter that we move towards. New paths are possible through freedom in C...  Read More

We continue our worship series that invites us to contemplate our journeys in life. Yet even in the midst of journeys, we never lose a desire for “home.” No matter what we call “home” in this physical...  Read More

In our series about this journey called life, we focus today on how the journey changes us. This can lead to not always being understood. Jesus found this out as he pushed against the status quo of hi...  Read More

So this month, my prayer is this: Lord, show us your glory in the ordinary, the simple, and the mundane. Show us your glory when we are tired, weak, and worn. Show us your glory in this wilderness thr...  Read More

Today, we continue our worship series called “The Way” that invites us to a spiritual journey during this season. Today we come to the table to be sustained for the road ahead. In our society, we are ...  Read More

Today we begin a new worship series called “The Way.” Making intentional journeys has been a ritual of humankind across time and traditions. Inspired by passages in the scriptures that talk about the ...  Read More

Six days later, Jesus took with him Peter and James and his brother John and led them up a high mountain, by themselves. And he was transfigured before them, and his face shone like the sun, and his c...  Read More

“You are the light of the world. A city built on a hill cannot be hid. People do not light a lamp and put it under the bushel basket; rather, they put it on the lampstand, and it gives light to all in...  Read More

7 Will the Lord be pleased with thousands of rams, with ten thousands of rivers of oil? Shall I give my firstborn for my transgression, the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul?” 8 He has t...  Read More

As I write this newsletter, we have just come through a blisteringly cold weekend where the temperatures got down in the negatives and the roads were covered with ice. These things remind me that we a...  Read More

Jesus calls ordinary people and forms a people with a purpose. The fish becomes a compact sign of identity—belonging to Christ—and a sign of mission—joining Jesus in bringing good news to real places...  Read More

John names Jesus with a symbol that carries a whole story: deliverance, mercy, sacrifice, and hope. The Lamb reframes power - God rescues not by domination, but by costly, healing, sacrificial love....  Read More

Matthew 3:13-17 Then Jesus came from Galilee to John at the Jordan, to be baptized by him. John would have prevented him, saying, “I need to be baptized by you, and do you come to me?” But Jesus answ...  Read More

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. All things came into being through him, and without him not one thing came into being....  Read More

This week in our Advent series of asking and answering the complex question “What Child IS This?”, we encounter another description of the Christ Child that will tell us much more about who he was des...  Read More

Lisa Porter passed unexpectedly, but surrounded by her beloved family at the age of 62 on Tuesday, November 18, 2025. She is survived by her father Thomas Porter, her brother Michael Porter, and her t...  Read More

As we turn the page again on the calendar to the last month of the year and await the first snow of the year, we are met with anticipation of the coming season at every street corner we pass and every...  Read More

In 1865, William Chatterton Dix penned a poem that would become the beloved Christmas-time favorite, “What Child is This?” This year for Advent and Christmas, we will be prompted by this carol to ask ...  Read More

One of the criminals who were hanged there kept deriding him and saying, “Are you not the Messiah? Save yourself and us!” But the other rebuked him, saying, “Do you not fear God, since you are under t...  Read More

When some were speaking about the temple, how it was adorned with beautiful stones and gifts dedicated to God, he said, “As for these things that you see, the days will come when not one stone will be...  Read More

Some Sadducees, those who say there is no resurrection, came to him and asked him a question: “Teacher, Moses wrote for us that if a man’s brother dies leaving a wife but no children, the man shall ma...  Read More