Category: Pastor’s Weekly Message

Grace Waves Friends: This Sunday we celebrate All Saints Day honoring those saints who have loved us and gone before us. From Rilke’s “Duino Eliegies” Of course, it is strange to inhabit the earth...

Grace Waves Friends: The world is for God.  It is not an illusion or an accident or a place of trial for people.  It is a work of art, and it is for God...

Grace Waves Friends: The power of intercessory prayer surpasses every work we might undertake for God’s glory, since it joins our desire for the world’s healing to the mercy of the Holy Spirit.  Intercession...

Grace Waves Friends: The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image. Otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves...

Grace Waves Friends: Dissecting and examining the phenomena of God’s creation is good but misleading because you learn about these things but you don’t really know the beings.  I want not only to observe but to know living things, and...

Grace Waves Friends: COME – whoever you are!  Wanderer, worshipper, lover of learning.   This is not a caravan of despair. It doesn’t matter if you’ve broken your vows a thousand times, still and yet...

Grace Waves Friends: Beyond obedience – attention fixed on the goal… freedom from fear; Beyond fear – openness to life; and Beyond that – Love. —Markings, Dag Hammarskjold Enjoyed “Catch you Later” – want...

Grace Waves Friends: Blessed is one who sees their own weakness, and blessed is one who, when seeing a flaw in someone else, takes responsibility for it.   Because – half of any person is...

Grace Waves Friends: The awe of God is the beginning of wisdom.  The first principle of wisdom is:  acquire wisdom; at the cost of all you have, acquire understanding!” (Proverbs 4: 7)   You...

Grace Waves Friends: Wisdom says – my friends, listen to me.  Happy are those who keep my ways. Listen to the teachings and become wise. Blessed are those who keep watch at my gates...