4 Rejoice[c] in the Lord always; again I will say, Rejoice.[d] 5 Let your gentleness be known to everyone. The Lord is near. 6 Do not worry about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God. 7 And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard...
Dear CEC Community, I want to talk about our future. But first, a story. Last Monday – Labor Day – I had just sat down to make a few notes before transitioning out of vacation mode. I was still damp from the Calapooia river and was sitting on the deck...
July 1, 2020 “Whoever welcomes you, welcomes me [Jesus said], and whoever welcomes me, welcomes the One who sent me.” (Mt. 10:40) Last Sunday the joke was from “Pickles” in the VC Star…it was a grampa and grandson… the grampa says, “Nelson, show me that hole in your sock”…and he...
There are lots of lessons from my theater years that help with living in the world, and in Christ. First, there is the idea of empathy: you figure out how you’d react to whatever the character is going through. It makes you look at people differently. You learn from their...
“Take what is yours and go. I want to give to this one who was hired last, the same as I give to you.” (Matt. 20.14) It seems that Peter is the one who gets Jesus to tell his parables… to try to get Peter to jump up into the Spiritual...
From a CLUE notice about Rosh haShanah [which 10 holy days later leads to] Yom Kippur… This year, Rosh haShanah began on September 18th, at sundown. Yom Kippur is on the 27th. I’ll [Rabbi Neil Comess-Daniels] leave you selections from a beautiful reading about Rosh haShanah and the High...
Rev. Ashley Horan, Another world is possible. We say it, again and again, even when the proof lies somewhere beyond the horizon, beyond our reach, beyond our imagination. This is our faith: Another world is possible. Not somewhere else— another world, another lifetime—but here, and now, for us and for...
From Pastor Bethany: Here are some ideas of how we can “Keep the Faith” while we are separated from one another. Pray. Take the prayer list and pray for five or ten of those listed before each meal. Pray the five-finger prayer: Thumb: those closest to you, Index: for neighbors,...
The opening story is about a boy who has been doing remote schooling and he gets to go back to Real school. He’s been a lackadaisical student prior to Covid; he stared out the window and often didn’t hear the teacher when questions were raised. Since Covid and remote learning...
“And early in the morning, he came walking toward them on the sea. (Mt. 14:25; within Mt. 14:22-33) The joke is about a brand new preacher whom the folks in the country parish don’t much like. He’s young and sure of himself, from the city and fresh out of seminary. ...
