Month: October 2015

• “I Will Come to You (You Are Mine” By David Haas

  Recently a friend reminded me that it is good to sing, and to sing in community.  I have been tinkering with soundcloud a bit, and decided to take the risk and share this hymn, which has been floating through my head for the past day.  Singing is like praying, and I hope that you are…

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  October 17, 2015

  Music

  David Haas, Glory to God, Hymns

• Jesus Changes Lives

  Rev. Rami AlMaqdasi grew up in Basra, Iraq, and shared with us how his life as a Christian from Iraq has been marked and defined by war. His earliest memories are of fleeing the violence of the Iraq-Iran war, coming of age during the Kuwait War, and of serving the church in Syria as Iraq…

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  October 16, 2015

  Church Stuff, Ethics and Justice, politics, Sermons

  blessed are the peacemakers, Iraq, Presbyterian Peacemaking Program, Rami AlMaqdasi, Syria

• You Are Enough

  Now a new king arose over Egypt, who did not know Joseph. He said to his people, “Look, the Israelite people are more numerous and more powerful than we. Come, let us deal shrewdly with them, or they will increase and, in the event of war, join our enemies and fight against us and escape from the…

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  October 15, 2015

  Ethics and Justice, politics, Sermons

  burning Bush, Exodus, holy ground, pay attention, sermon