Weekly Newsletter

Sunday Preview for September 19

• “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.

• “Bloom with Repose: Nothing Can Separate Us” by The Rev. Stephanie Kendell

  

  May you always feel connected, knowing that nothing can separate you from the love of God or the love we have for you in this community.

• “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.