THIS SUNDAY:  October 20, 2019

In Worship @ 10am, in the sanctuary

"This Living Word"
Individuals and families are encouraged to bring a Bible from home to worship today

We read from the Bible every single Sunday but we rarely talk about what the Bible is, really, or how we’re supposed to read it, understand it, use it, and how not. This Sunday we’ll take a step back and think together about how these words written so long ago and the communities who wrote them may just be a helpful conversation partner on our faith journey today. We’ll also be presenting Bibles to older elementary age children. 

​Scripture Reading
2 Timothy 3:14-17     But as for you, continue in what you have learned and firmly believed, knowing from whom you learned it, and how from childhood you have known the sacred writings that are able to instruct you for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus. All scripture is inspired by God and is useful for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness, so that everyone who belongs to God may be proficient, equipped for every good work.

After Worship @ 11:30am, in Linden Hall

Environmental Ministries Team Book Discussion

"Great Tide Rising: Towards Clarity and Moral Courage in a Time of Planetary Change"
by Kathleen Dean Moore

Even as seas rise against the shores, another great tide is beginning to rise – a tide of outrage against the pillage of the planet, a tide of commitment to justice and human rights, a swelling affirmation of moral responsibility to the future and to Earth’s fullness of life.

Philosopher and nature essayist Kathleen Dean Moore takes on the essential questions: Why is it wrong to wreck the world? What is our obligation to the future? What is the transformative power of moral resolve? How can clear thinking stand against the lies and illogic that batter the chances for positive change? What are useful answers to the recurring questions of a storm-threatened time – What can anyone do? Is there any hope? And always this: What stories and ideas will lift people who deeply care, inspiring them to move forward with clarity and moral courage?