Weekly Check-In - December 27, 2025
And just like that it's the final Weekly Check-In of 2025. Wow!
This Sunday morning we'll gather for the final Sunday of 2025 and explore what it means to speak of "The Now and the Not Yet" in terms of our faith. Christ has come and we have celebrated and remembered Christ's coming once again. Christ will come again – a core belief of our faith. We live between those two events. The kingdom is around us and we catch glimpses of it, but we see plenty of brokenness as well and know that the kingdom is not yet fully realized. Tomorrow we have two scriptures, Isaiah 63:7-9 and Matthew 2:13-23. Everyday can't be December 25. How do we live our faith on the other side of Christmas? We'll work on that together.
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Thank you to everyone who shared special music with us last Sunday and on Christmas Eve. We learned again that music reaches to a place within us that the spoken word will not find. We are grateful for all the folks – Regan and Donovan, Joyce and Judy and the Choir, Jason, Twila and Joe, and Julia on Christmas Eve. Each one helped deepen our experience of Christmas.
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Looking ahead, coming a week from tomorrow on January 4, 2026, it will be the first Sunday of the year and it will be time to once again, receive a Star Word to be our companion for the year. During worship there will be a time to select a paper where you will find a word that you will be invited to consider as you make your spiritual journey through the year 2026. Many folks have come to enjoy this tradition and look forward to beginning each year with their new Star Word. If you are not able to be in church on January 4, I will have some available for the next couple of Sundays OR if you are not able to come to church in person, let me know if you would like one and we'll see that one gets to you.
Celebrate Life!
George