Message: “Stories of Hope in Ipala” from Bryan Peterson
We begin with the story of our church’s friendship with the people of Ipala, Guatemala and we hear how hope is springing up in all kinds of ways in that city.
Message: “Experiencing God Through Ritual” from Matthew Dyer
Experiencing God through practice, habit and a rhythm of life.
Message: “Experiencing God Through Loving Others” from Matthew Dyer
Service, loving, and caring for others and activism for social justice can help us develop a deeper awareness of God’s presence in others, especially among the marginalized and disregarded, as we learn to treat everyone as a child of God.
Message: “Experiencing God Through Our Mind” from Matthew Dyer
We all have different temperaments, learning styles, personalities and backgrounds that make some ways of connecting with God more readily productive than others. Different spiritual traditions have favored certain methods over others for a variety of theological and cultural reasons and while this has helped some for whom those methods were effective, it has also caused guilt and inhibition in many for whom those same methods have not been helpful.
Message: “Experiencing God Through Nature” from Matthew Dyer
We live in a beautiful world. It is true that there are many aspects to our world that are harsh, dark and even ugly but none of us can deny that we live on a planet of unspeakable, breathtaking beauty. People in the Christian tradition have different ways of interpreting the first few chapter of the Bible in Genesis chapters 1-11; but there is great agreement about the fact that all of creation, all of this beauty was brought into existence through and by God and that the universe is sustained through God’s love and power.