The Rev. Molly Bosscher 7/20/26 The Rev. Molly Bosscher 7/20/26

Our Job Is to Grow

It’s easy to pay more attention to what’s collapsing than what’s growing, to see the weeds first and to lament them. But remember. You’re not alone, nor am I. Our job is to grow, not to sort out the wheat and the weeds. We might not see the effect of our work in this lifetime, but that doesn’t mean we should give up the work! We can hold fast to the truth that God is God and we are not and that our job is to grow.

The Rev. Molly Bosscher 7/13/26 The Rev. Molly Bosscher 7/13/26

What a Lot of Seed!

I think we’re all called to be farmers, sowers, all of us, throwing seeds all the time, our deeds of love in the world. So keep on. Keep on being ridiculously excessive. Love, even when you know it might be rejected. Give more than is necessary, without expecting to get anything back. We’re not playing the game of chess here. We have been given so much, so much goodness, so much love, so much beauty. It’s on us to pass it on. We never know what will grow.

The Rev. Alex Quick 7/9/26 The Rev. Alex Quick 7/9/26

There May Even Be Dancing

Jesus is not promising a life free from work or burden; these come with being human; only that the work and burdens will be lighter from the fact that we’re navigating them with God, not the expectations of others. Sometimes, Jesus will lead us into times of mourning, and in those times, we can wait and wail alongside those who mourn.

And sometimes, Jesus may steer us into times of celebration. God willing, there may even be dancing.

The Rev. Molly Bosscher 6/28/26 The Rev. Molly Bosscher 6/28/26

The Unexpected Welcome

Let the unexpected welcome extended to you change you, so that you might become more tender, more loving, knowing yourself to be beloved even more deeply. Let it help you see rightly so that we might become even more like our early Christian siblings, who welcomed the orphan and the widow, who called women apostles, who opened their arms to the uncircumcised and the eunuchs, the ones who had before been spit out.

And let this beautiful welcome, one offered to us in the most unexpected of places by the most unexpected of people change our hearts, our minds, and our lives. Accept those cold cups of water. Drink them with joy. The Church needs it.

Image Credit: Pineapple Bright by Kellie Day

Joel Flint 6/24/26 Joel Flint 6/24/26

The Rev. Dr. Pauli Murray

For Pauli Murray, salvation and reconciliation meant living without fear, grounded in God’s unfailing love. It meant facing injustice honestly, naming what is broken in the world, and choosing love—even when it is difficult.

Pauli challenged the religious and social injustices of her day. Let us follow Pauli’s lead as a church and as LGBTQ+ Christians to pick up the mantle set forth in the vows we made at our baptisms:

Will you seek and serve Christ in all persons, loving your neighbor as yourself? Will you strive for justice and peace among all people, and respect the dignity of every human being?

We respond with: I will with God’s help.

The Rev. Molly Bosscher 6/14/26 The Rev. Molly Bosscher 6/14/26

God’s Justice

With God the scales of justice got broke, and instead of love being something to be earned, instead of something to be grasped, to be demanded, it’s the free gift of God that comes to us overwhelming our senses, delighting our lives, and filling the world with wonder.

The Rev. Molly Bosscher 6/7/26 The Rev. Molly Bosscher 6/7/26

Who’s Following Whom?

This is the ministry of Jesus, the one who comes to be with us, who asks us to follow him, to leave behind our small minded ways, to come to the party, the one with tax collectors and sinners, the one with overseers and gays, the one with the outcasts and strays.

The Rev. Molly Bosscher 5/5/26 The Rev. Molly Bosscher 5/5/26

Our Father’s House

All of us are responsible for our world, for loving, for feeding, for clothing, for healing, for respecting, for showing with our bodies that there is another way, that God is preparing that place for us, and also that that place is within us, as Jesus lives in our hearts, as we move closer to God and to one another, God’s hands and feet in the world today, proclaiming with our mouths, loving with our bodies, remembering that today and every day, we are with God.

Rev. Ron Rienstra, PH.D. 4/26/26 Rev. Ron Rienstra, PH.D. 4/26/26

God’s Glory in Creation

Psalm 104 speaks of the immanence of God in creation, pointing us to a divinely enchanted world that we seem to have lost in the flatland of modernity.

It reminds us to attend to creation and delight in it, as God does.

It calls for us to remember with humility our place within the whole community of creation and points us to the most glorious thing of all creation: the sacramental mystery of death and life. The sacraments shatter our temptation to divide the material from the spiritual, affirming the incarnational union of God and creation.

As we come to the table to feast on Jesus, the Bread of Life, we do so in the company of the communion of saints, and indeed the whole community of creation, all of us swept up in the extravagant, prodigal fecundity of God’s grace.

"Are we thankful?”
“We are thankful! Praise the Lord!"

The Rev. Molly Bosscher 3/22/26 The Rev. Molly Bosscher 3/22/26

Grief Is Not the End

This is not the end. Our sorrow and loss is not the end. It’s only a stepping stone on the way.

Image: “Grief” by Gene Gould

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