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1/8 meeting
At this Tuesday's Community Group, we'll be starting to follow along with the sermons and sermon texts at Grace. This Sunday's sermon, "Greatness Again," is available for online listening and download here. The passage, Mark 10:32-45, can be viewed here (there's a link at the bottom to other translations). See you Tuesday! -
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Hi everyone,
This week we went to help serve dinner at Operation Nightwatch. I thought it was a great experience for us and look forward to finding more places for us to serve together.
This next week we will be looking at what to do this fall. Before heading to Operation Nightwatch we talked about this. After talking there was a ( Read more... ) -
Wrap Up
Hi everyone, here is a brief rundown of last week and look ahead to next week.
This week Kendall brought it with his "me bag". Look for Lee to bring it on August 21st.
We also continued in our study of how we pray. We looked at another practice of prayer, Prayer of Examen. This is a practice that involves praying while contemplating and ( Read more... ) -
Wrap Up
Hi everyone, here is a brief rundown of last week and look ahead to next week.
This week Becca brought it with her "me bag". Look for Kendall to bring it next week.
We also continued in our study of how we pray. We looked at another practice of prayer, Lectio Divina. This is a practice that involves praying while contemplating scripture. We ( Read more... ) -
Wrap Up
This week we continued in our study of how we pray. We took a brief look at the Centering prayer that we spent time with last week and then we headed out on our field trip. We went to the Chapel of St. Ignatius and spent time in this sacred space praying.
We finished with a little “me bag” done by Jared.
A look ahead to our next meeting…
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Hi everyone, just a brief rundown of last week and look ahead to next week.
We started looking at prayer as the first in our topical studies we will be doing this summer.
We talked about who taught us to pray and how they taught us to pray.
Here are some words of Richard Foster’s that we looked at:
“To pray is to change. Prayer is the ( Read more... ) -
Come as you are
Wanted to share another quote from Dietrich Bonhoeffer's Life Together (it'll be on the cover of this Sunday's Order of Worship). I hope we are and can continue to be the kind of community that believes this together:Those who remain alone with their evil are left utterly alone. It is possible that Christians may remain lonely in spite of daily ( Read more... ) -
Abraham
I googled for the actual source of this, and I think it's from a talk given by a rabbi sometime. Interesting thoughts as we finished up Galatians and as I'm back in Genesis in my own reading ( Read more... ) -
Upcoming Changes & Events
Wanted to give everyone an idea of what the next few weeks look like. A few things are about to change; I think all of it's for the better and I'm excited to see what comes of it. :o]
Effective July 10:- Jared will be taking over leadership.
- Kendall and Mollie will host.
Until that time, the following activities are scheduled:- 6/19 (this ( Read more... )
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Quotes from our discussion
From our conversation last night, I wanted to share a few quotes:The glory of God is a fully alive human being.
-Irenaeus, Against Heresies
Laura mentioned this one:Don't ask yourself what the world needs. Ask yourself what makes you come alive, and go do that, because what the world needs is people who have come alive.
-Howard Thurman
And here's ( Read more... )