Leader: Tell us the stories of Jesus. We sing them in our hymns, pass them from generation to generation, and find our own lives within them. People: Today we gather to hear once again the old old stories Leader Let us sing out loud and recall these stories of Jesus and his love. All: This is the day that the Lord has made, we will rejoice and be glad in it ...

When he returned to Capernaum after some days, it was reported that he was at home. So many gathered around that there was no longer room for them, not even in front of the door, and he was speaking the word to them. Then some people came, bringing to him a paralyzed man, carried by four of them. And when they could not bring him to Jesus because of the crowd, they removed the roof above him, and ...

The Spirit is alive and moves among us as it did in the early church! We come to the end of our series, “Resurrection Stories,” in which we have celebrated that new life is possible, that transformation can happen no matter how dead we have felt inside or how difficult our circumstances might be. Today we will commit ourselves to some important and concrete goals for our mission in the world. We a...

Mental illness is one of the most common, devastating, and yet stigmatized maladies of our time. If this is an “Age of Anxiety,” we must be a church of healers and hope-givers. We will pray for those who deal with various forms of trauma and the consequences of mental illness, those who care for them, and open compassion for our own struggles....

This country is made up of so many who escaped to the “promised land” from oppressive regimes. Throughout history, people have had to flee situations of horror. Even within our country and in our own time, there are those who live with oppression and fear. We seek to widen our understanding of what we must do to continue to work for liberation on so many fronts....