What's Happening
Gardening Help Needed
Help maintain our pollinator garden and our other green spaces on Monday mornings during the summer.
No Silent Prayer This Week
Please note there will be no Silent Prayer this Tuesday, July 21.
Director of Music Search Survey
The Director of Music Search Committee welcomes your feedback and advice.
Disability Pride Month
We are celebrating Disability Pride Month as we work toward greater and more purposeful Disability Awareness and Inclusion here at St. John’s.
Summer Forum Series
“What is the Church doing at Eucharist?” Sunday mornings beginning June 14
Recent Sermons
Wheat and Weeds: Harvesting Hope While Gently Unburdening Our Despair
Spiritual hope is harvested unseen after many seasons of patiently, gently, and consistently caring for our innermost parts. Parts that need constant gardening. How do we do this inner, spiritual work when we cannot immediately identify our wheat or our weeds?
Disability Pride Month: “God Sows on Every Kind of Soil — Including Ours”
The sower in Jesus’ parable does not see “less than.” The sower sees soil worth sowing in. God’s Word does not depend on perfect soil. God’s call does not depend on perfect bodies. God’s grace does not depend on perfect minds. God sows because God sees possibility where the world sees limitation.
Frustration and Freedom
We are set free from the power of sin and death, and from the need to perform flawlessly all the Commandments prescribed by the law, but we are not set free to do whatever we want. We are now constrained by the law of Love, and that very limitation is the space of our freedom, because it is the space of the Holy Spirit, who is always free.
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"E-vangelist" Articles
Responding to Disabilities
During my psychotherapy, I choose to explore the emotional side of my life. It was not an easy or a comfortable process, but the wholeness and healing that this brought was deeply satisfying.
What is your image of God?
I have always thought of Jesus as someone with arms outstretched. True, he was on the cross, but also, he had a welcoming embrace. Children can grow up to be adults with outstretched arms, to know suffering, but also to know that they are not alone.
