building a community of grace
At the Weekend Away of our congregation during the Ascension holidays we deliberated on the theme- Our Church: Called to be the Good News. One of the images that we discussed at length to define the church was that of the rainbow. We looked at Genesis 9 on the story of the first rainbow and... Continue Reading →
--- Midweek Meditations:thoughts, inspiration and encouragementfrom ACF community members --- In 1921, my father, still a toddler, emigrated with his parents and siblings to the US from Belfast. They never returned, never saw their families again. And, in the absence of email, Twitter, What’s App, indeed even telephones and, literate enough only to get... Continue Reading →
--- Midweek Meditations:thoughts, inspiration and encouragementfrom ACF community members --- “Here is the Church and there is the steeple. Open the door and see all the people.” Many of us learned this fun little rhyme complete with hand motions as children. It was one of the first lessons we learned about what the church was.... Continue Reading →
--- Midweek Meditations:thoughts, inspiration and encouragementfrom ACF community members --- It has been a long journey, dusty roads, no real rest, the environment not familiar, not even inviting, but exhausting because too few moments of lighting up, of light-hearted joy and playfulness. Prognoses often were grim and if not you could never be sure how... Continue Reading →
--- Midweek Meditations:thoughts, inspiration and encouragementfrom ACF community members --- Over the coming decades, generating enough clean energy for us all to live comfortably will be an enormous engineering challenge. We must all remember that energy is costly and hard to come by. For example, last Sunday, the wind turbines on Rosskopf generated about one... Continue Reading →
Greetings. Paul writing to the Corinthian Church affirms, I planted, Apollos watered but God made it grow. (1 Corinthians 3:6). While it is an undisputed fact that it is God who makes churches grow it also reminds us that each of us who in God’s providence are part of the life of the church has... Continue Reading →
--- Midweek Meditations:thoughts, inspiration and encouragementfrom ACF community members --- On my birthday in February, I got one of those presents that puts one into the position of feeling forced to manufacture a more or less genuine-looking smile and sort-of-excited exclamation of ‘Thank you!’. The gift was a weekend trip to a Christian women’s camping... Continue Reading →
--- Midweek Meditations:thoughts, inspiration and encouragementfrom ACF community members --- God is our heavenly Father. We are all children of God. We are all God’s family. Together, these declarations are an amazing way to frame our relationship with God and with each other. We look at ourselves as children of God, and each other as... Continue Reading →
--- Midweek Meditations:thoughts, inspiration and encouragementfrom ACF community members --- Something happened this past weekend that caused me to remember a passage that Paul wrote in 1 Corinthians. While cutting a watermelon, my finger was in the way of the knife. I automatically dropped the knife and the watermelon rolled and fell to the floor. ... Continue Reading →
--- Midweek Meditations:thoughts, inspiration and encouragementfrom ACF community members --- Does anyone remember the story of Don Giuseppe Berardelli? Supposedly, he got infected with Covid-19 early on, and the infection took a bad turn with the 72-year old priest from Casnigo near Bergamo. Supposedly, Don Guiseppe died after giving the respiratory unit that might have... Continue Reading →
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