Category: simple church
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a Simple Church Community Thanksgiving
This past week Simple Church hosted a community meal for ~60 guests from Upward Bound house Family Shelter and Family Place which provides transitional housing and services for homeless families. There was an outpouring of generous food offerings, volunteer hours and love from our congregation. Our social hall was a buzz with families and congregants […]
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the sacred part of sacred yoga
Last night at sacred yoga I finally got it! Over the years I have ‘done’ yoga fairly regularly after being introduced to it via P90X. But, last night, I finally got the ‘it’ of it all. Temitope, our spiritual guide/teacher/instructor led us through a series of poses and flows, all the while offering us gentle […]
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why simple?
Someone asked me the other day, ‘why simple church?’ It’s a good question. We don’t mean that following in the way of Jesus is easy…or that it requires you to be simple minded. On the contrary, following Jesus is anything but easy. And yet, there is this strong undercurrent in Jesus’ message about abundant life […]
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trying to be ‘both and’ in an ‘either or’ world
Is it just me or does our world seem to be pretty divided at the moment? It feels like we are bombarded with this ‘either or’ narrative which has infected our media outlets, social media and in our interpersonal relationships. In our public and private lives we sometimes draw clear lines and take decisive votes […]