Weekly Newsletter

Sunday Preview for August 1

• “Bloom with Intention: We Pray Abundance” by Kelsey Creech, Resident Seminarian

  

  Our cravings will not always be bodily nourishment. Often, they are more nebulous cravings like justice, love, restoration, peace, repair, or joy.

• “Bloom with Intention: Prophesies and Plumb Lines” by Kelsey Creech, Resident Seminarian

  

  God measures God’s people by their depth, for that is how plumb lines are used for measuring. Be it depth of love, depth of faith, depth of spirituality.

• “Bloom with Intention: Let God Be God” by Kelsey Creech, Resident Seminarian

  

  When we close our minds to who God can be and how God can act, we limit the ways God will work among us.

• “Bloom with Intention: What Are You Fighting For?” by Kelsey Creech, Resident Seminarian

  

  The things I fight against were created by evil, and  I have assurance from scripture that abundant life, justice, and love will overcome them all.

• “Bloom with Intention: Gentle Jesus and a Mighty Storm” by Kelsey Creech, Resident Seminarian

  

  We can hold our fears and anxieties about life alongside our faith in an omnipotent, benevolent God.

• “Bloom with Pride: The Stories We Tell” by The Rev. Stephanie Kendell

  

  When we pay attention to our needs and the needs of our community, we don’t have to tell people about Jesus, because they get to experience Jesus in our work.

• “Bloom with Pride: The Blame Game” by The Rev. Stephanie Kendell

  

  The Blame Game is not a game God is interested in. Be true to you and to the just God we serve.

• “Bloom with Pride: Your Call” by The Rev. Stephanie Kendell

  

  Be it big or small we all play our part in building the kindom, sometimes we just have to listen.

• “Bloom with Pride: Love Letter” by The Rev. Stephanie Kendell

  

  You are loved by God, and may others see your life as a love letter sent to them.

• “Bloom with Reverence: Trinity” by The Rev. Stephanie Kendell

  

  The Trinity is what we use to describe the relationship between God, Christ, and Spirit and the works that all three do both together and individually.