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Dear friend
We write letters. I know that’s a bit strange in this age of e-mail, text messages, Snapchat and the like, but it’s true. Perhaps we are just old-fashioned, passé, and out of date (like the Oxford comma), but there’s something special about a hand-written missive. People regularly tell us how encouraging those letters are, how […]
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A Cloud of Witnesses
Our Celebration of the Faithful was once again a needed reminder of the “cloud of witnesses” who have gone before us and who both inform and help complete our faith. Contrary to the illusion of relentless individualism, we are indeed indebted. Probably more so than we could fathom even if we were to try. First […]
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One another
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Love
“Above all, hold unfailing your love for one another.” It’s Valentine’s Day and the table is laden with gifts: candy, cards, mugs, gift boxes, home-made pictures, bookmarks, and other mementos of the day of “love.” This unfailing tradition of including all on this day typically reserved only for romantic love elevates the occasion. One single […]
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Our beginnings
We began in 1974 in an attempt to be an authentic Christian witness. We began an “agenda,” the bare bones of essential ingredients to being the church. Through the years we attempted to flesh out that agenda in our life together. Some items on that document were leadership, growth, and living close (within a 10 […]