Stepping Forward Safely in Love and Trust

Our bishop, Elaine Stanovsky, has issued new guidance on church reopening. It replaces the local church-based planning document that St. Peter’s had developed. Highlights from the guidance include: “…please remember Saint Paul’s admonition that what is “permissible” is not always “beneficial” to the common good. (I Corinthians 10:23). While some churches may act quickly to […]

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Awakened Series ~ Diversity: Embracing Our Differences

https://youtu.be/TFB95XD4DLA?si=nGOb–vYCxlqhHc7 This Sunday we are beginning a new monthly worship & discussion topic: diversity. As we live in a time where efforts to honor and celebrate diversity are being restricted by the current administration, it is vital to look at how God, Jesus and our faith ancestors created, understood and welcomed the diversity that is

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Awakened Series ~ Renewal: A New Creation

https://youtu.be/CsMsFLeULSA?si=xyQIGq6QG3FnosjB This Sunday we will be spending some time with Paul and his letter to the Corinthian community. Paul was writing to this new Christian community help them understand what it means to be “a new creation.” Here, here encourages them to look at everyone with a different perspective- not as enemies or “others,” but

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Awakened Series ~ Renewal: Rebirth

https://youtu.be/0ucfUGpesSY?si=bkbLueWuMk1MfDbo The words in this Sunday’s scripture readings are words of hope for a struggling community. The Israelites had been taken to Babylon and were getting too comfortable there. The prophet Isaiah reminds them, and us, that the God of liberation hasn’t abandoned them and will lead them home if they will trust and follow.

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