THIS WEEK @ FMC – August 14-27, 2024
God of wonder and curiosity, open my mind to the amazing world around me today. When I am confused or curious, guide me to wise people Who can help me understand new things. And no matter how long it takes for me to learn, I know you are always My patient teacher. Amen. Credit: illustratedministry.com […]
Read postTHIS WEEK @ FMC – July 31-August 13, 2024
There’s a wild hope in the wind: her whisper is heard on the breeze. The gale is her shout that is calling us out. There’s a wild hope in the wind. O God in the wind, come gather us in, be our courage and promise. The future is dim, but we want to […]
Read postTHIS WEEK @ FMC – July 17-30, 2024
Leaving home, we set our seeing, on a quest for deeper meaning. What we find can change us for the love of all the creation and its beings. Far from home, we know we’re seeing, everywhere is full of meaning; diff’rent folx expand our world and awe of all the creation and its beings. Coming […]
Read postTHIS WEEK @ FMC – July 10-16, 2024
“A journey can become a sacred thing… … May you travel in an awakened way, gathered wisely into your inner ground; that you may not waste the invitations which wait along the way to transform you.” (John O’Donohue. To Bless the Space Between Us. Pg 55. Except from “For the Traveler”) PLEASE NOTE: New posts […]
Read postTHIS WEEK @ FMC – June 26-July 9, 2024
Recently I spent an afternoon going through files I’d saved from college and seminary. Most of it ended up in the recycling bin, but I did hang on to some of the things I’d written. In 1993 I wrote a paper for Keith Sprunger’s History of Civilizaiton I class that I have no memory of, […]
Read postTHIS WEEK @ FMC – June 12-25, 2024
I don’t often think of love as logical. At least not in a way that resonates with a typical defition of logical. Munther Isaac, pastor of Christmas Lutheran Church in Bethlehem (in the occupied West Bank where injustice, violence, death and oppression are daily realities), asserts there IS a logic of love that is inherently […]
Read postTHIS WEEK @ FMC – June 5-11, 2024
“Ponder anew what the Almighty can do, who with great love still befriends us.” (VT 88; end of verse 3; text written by Joachim Neander 1680) This snippet from “Praise to the Lord, the Almighty” has been playing in my head since Sunday when Peggy sent us out from worship with an arrangement based on […]
Read postTHIS WEEK @ FMC – May 22-June 4, 2024
This hymn text, written by George Croly (England, 1867), creates a perfect bridge for us between our Pentecost celebration last Sunday and the beginning of our next worship/sermon series on 1 John next Sunday. I invite you to use this text as a prayer this week, continuing to open yourself to the movement of God’s […]
Read postTHIS WEEK @ FMC – May 15-21, 2024
Faith, hope and love remain. And the greatest of these is love. These words of the apostle Paul keep popping up in my life! Love appears to be something a lot of people are exploring, which frankly, gives me hope! The email meditation today from the Center for Action and Contemplation (Richard Rohr) included a […]
Read postTHIS WEEK @ FMC – May 8-14, 2024
One of the hymns about love I considered for worship this past Sunday is a new one written by a modern-day Anabaptist (Nathan Grieser), based on the writings of a 16th century Anabaptist (Pilgrim Marpeck). I love this text, especially the refrain: When we love, we move with Christ; love in us has come alive. […]
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