This Sunday, May 13th, the United Church of Jaffrey will honor our mother’s in a Mom themed worship service.
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This Sunday is Children’s Sunday Service and Picnic
We will have a special Children’s service this Sunday that is built around the theme of friendship!
Stuff-ology
The man in the crowd is interested in stuff.
Jesus, is not interested in stuff.
Jesus is interested in true life.
Pathfinder — April 2018
I went downstairs and put the kettle on.
“So this,” I mused, “is how ‘the other half’ lives!”
We Witness
…there is a kind of eternity in that moment that makes it shimmer with significance. A kind of spiritual conspiracy between the mystery that surrounds us, and the beating of our hearts.
Forgive and Remember
In the normal order of things, power follows strength. But in the case of forgiveness, it is not the aggressor who has the power. In the case of forgiveness, it is the person who has been wronged — the vulnerable person, the person who has been hurt — who is in the position of power.
An Easter Meditation
In our contemporary world, we are told that fact equals truth. But, if you will forgive me, this is a fairly recent assumption that comes to us from the Enlightenment and the development of the scientific method. For the vast majority of human history, truth was not communicated as fact.
It was communicated as metaphor.
Creative Uncertainty
Religion, for me, has very little to do with certainty. When I say that I believe in God I am not claiming to be certain about anything accept of the existence of great mystery. Christianity is not a prescription that will solve all of life’s problems. If you want a prescription, go to your doctor.