NewChurch Live

3/21/21 One author beautifully noted how we will all experience “the grace of exhaustion,” or “the sacrament of stuck.” Those are, paradoxically, the places of exhaustion or feeling stuck where miracles often happen. The experience entails a journey through a truth telling that leads to the hope that is core to the Easter message. Bring your “stuckness” with you and we’ll try to appreciate it together!

3/14/21 Blessing it all is NOT easy. The Easter story is filled with very human stories of both blessing and betrayal, of light and dark, of heaven and hell. As we launch our four-part Easter series, we will explore how to hold those extremes in more life-giving ways. Winter gives way to spring....

3/7/21 How the Darkest Times in Our Lives Bring Us Closer to God As we begin emerging from a time when nearly all of us have struggled in one way or another, it brings up the question: why does God allow us to struggle at all? We’ll explore a mechanism that uses our times of powerlessness to strengthen our connection to our creator.

Forrest Keys Memorial Service 2/27/21

In this season of lent, we are reminded to offer a sacred “no.” We all wrestle with parts of life that we know do far more harm than good. Sometimes as we move toward becoming who we feel God is calling us to be, we have say “no” to those areas in our life that hold us down, and in that process find an even greater yes!

2/21/21 We face the temptation to either subscribe to the view that everything is possible or that nothing is possible in the long run. The real question that God asks us to hold is what is possible for each of us today? Let us look at life giving ways to reframe ourselves to sharpen our attention around small things we can do today to make the world better.

2/14/21 God finds us WHERE WE ARE. Simple and profound. He finds us in the reality of our everyday lives and calls upon us there. Even within the mundane limitations of our everyday lives, God gently leads us toward a new hope that says, together, we can make the world better. Join us!

2/7/2021 Jesus never commanded people to worship him. Instead, we find a consistent invitation to follow him. In that consistent invitation, and in following, we are encouraged to take responsibility for the world and our place in it.

1/31/2021 Finding our way towards a chance to make things better means we must first be open to rethinking. Rethinking our values, our goals, how we spend our time, and how we spend our money can enable us to rediscover a foundational sense of awe, finding God and our truest selves anew.

Memorial Service for Steven Petaccio 1/26/2021 Mother of Divine Grace Church, Philadelphia, PA

From service on 1/24/21 featuring Curtis Childs How do we make the church within us not just somewhere we go once a week, but somewhere that we live? Through careful building with the raw materials of spiritual truth, we can have the home of our dreams—right in our own minds!

Memorial Service for Bob Johnson January 24th, 2021 Grace Fellowship Church, Warren, PA