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Open your newsfeed or newspaper or turn on your news channel and it’s nearly all bad. Like genuinely bad, too. Not just the typical fearmongering and clickbait used to push advertisements. As we approach Thanksgiving and come into Gratitude Sunday the practice of gratitude takes real effort. Gratitude, in our Christian context, goes beyond a mere expression of thanks; we work to make a profound acknowledgment of God’s grace, a recognition of blessings received, and use it as a transformative force that shapes how we see and then interact with the world. If we can find God’s grace amid the bad news, then we canRead More →

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As we continue to focus as a church family on how to remain faithful to Christ in a politically fractured and divided world, I wish to focus for a moment on why it is so important that the church remain strictly non-partisan.  The church, as an institution, has long faced the temptation to cozy up beside kings and emperors and powerful political parties. Since the conversion of Constantine all the way back in the year 313, the church has found political power and influence quite intoxicating.  When Constantine became the first emperor of Rome to adopt Christianity as his own, the church stood to gainRead More →