What's Happening
First Nations Kitchen
Sunday, April 21, help prepare delicious indigenous To Go meals and bag organic produce for the community.
Immigrant Action Team Training
Saturday, April 20 from 9am-noon.
This is the follow-up training mentioned in Rev. Daniel Romero’s Palm Sunday sermon. It will orient volunteers interested in helping immigrant families who have survived harrowing journeys to the U.S.
OWLs Luncheon
Wednesday, April 17 at 12 noon. Please RSVP to Ernie Ashcroft. Everyone who identifies as an OWL (Older, Wiser Laity) is invited to a light lunch and presentation by local historian Jim Sazevich.
Meet the Staff Recital Singers
“Each of our St. John’s staff singers have such unique and beautiful vocal instruments. So I proposed the opportunity of planning a concert with them, and with excitement, we began planning!”
Land Acknowledgment Feedback
If you would still like to contribute impressions or ideas, please write them on the Land Acknowledgment Poster in the gym.
Faith Forum Series: “Salvation”
Christian theologians have offered many different answers to the question: what does it mean to be saved? Dr. Mark McInroy will lead this series starting April 7.
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Recent Sermons
Come, Eat, Taste Again Your Salvation
“The gospel of Luke bounces from table to table, meal to meal, and while the details are omitted, I cannot help filling them in with my imagination. You can smell the smoke from the fish. Candlelight reflects off the slick oil in a bowl on the table. Bread is broken. There is wine in cups.
Why did Luke take such pains to include food at every turn in his gospel? Luke wants us to know that this Jesus is the same Jesus who died, who was buried, who has returned—changed yes, but still the same, wounded, hungry, and yearning to be with his people.”
“You a lie and the truth ain’t in you”
“I grew up with this quote weaved among the many southern sayings I heard the elders speak over us and into us as children. Until I became an actual student of theology I did not know that this saying, and many others, are actual scriptural references from specific texts. 1 John 2 reads in part: ‘If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.'”
