Weekly Newsletter

Sunday Preview for October 17

• “Bloom with Curiosity: Following the Example of Our Women of God” by Kelsey Creech, Resident Seminarian

  

  As the Apostle Paul’s letter to the Church at Philippi shows, women’s work, leadership, and gifts matter.

• “Bloom with Curiosity: Sovereign, Majestic, Incomprehensible God” by Kelsey Creech, Resident Seminarian

  

  We serve a God who aids us in our becoming and waits for our arrival.

• “Bloom with Expansiveness: God’s Values and God’s Kindom” by Kelsey Creech, Resident Seminarian

  

  God sees those least valued by a society, calls them, makes their burden lightest, and pays them first. This is justice in the kindom of God.

• “Bloom with Expansiveness: The Limit Does Not Exist” by Kelsey Creech, Resident Seminarian

  

  We must forgive those who repent. For those who repent, our grace must be limitless.

• “Bloom with Expansiveness: The Power of Words” by Kelsey Creech, Resident Seminarian

  

  Our words have value. Our words hold power. Our words can be weaponized, or our words can empower life.

• “Bloom with Expansiveness: A New York Minute” by The Rev. Stephanie Kendell

  

  “In a New York Minute, everything can change,” and we have felt that in our bones this past week, these past two years, and these past 20 years.

• “Bloom with Expansiveness: When God is Human” by Kelsey Creech, Resident Seminarian

  

  This month, we are looking at the parameters we’ve set up around who God is and pushing past them.

• “Bloom with Repose: The Power of Love” by Kelsey Creech, Resident Seminarian

  

  Words of wisdom from Jimi Hendrix: “When the power of love overcomes the love of power, then the world will know peace.”

• “Bloom with Repose: The Spirit Gives Life” by Kelsey Creech, Resident Seminarian

  

  God does not judge me by my fleshiness but by the spirit’s work in me.

• “Bloom with Repose: Hymns of Praise” by Kelsey Creech, Resident Seminarian

  

  Acknowledging in our very core that God is good, holy, and deeply worthy of our praise is proof that we are becoming wise.