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This year’s Advent devotional uses a new format. In place of longer written pieces, each day offers a scripture, an image, and a short meditation. It’s simple, flexible, and easy to enter at any point in the season. “Like a great waterwheel, the liturgical year goes on relentlessly irrigating our souls, softening the ground of our hearts, nourishing the soil of our lives until the seed of the Word of God itself begins to grow in us, comes to fruit in us, ripens in us the spir

This year’s Advent devotional uses a new format. In place of longer written pieces, each day offers a scripture, an image, and a short meditation. It’s simple, flexible, and easy to enter at any point in the season. In the gift of this new day, in the gift of the present moment, in the gift of time and eternity intertwined let us be grateful let us be attentive let us be open to what has never happened before, in the gift of this new day, in the gift of the present moment, in

This year’s Advent devotional uses a new format. In place of longer written pieces, each day offers a scripture, an image, and a short meditation. It’s simple, flexible, and easy to enter at any point in the season. “I am about to do a new thing; now it springs forth; do you not perceive it?  I will make a wayin the wilderness and rivers in the desert.”  Isaiah 43:19   How can I be present with others this day and shine as a beacon of hope?

This year’s Advent devotional uses a new format. In place of longer written pieces, each day offers a scripture, an image, and a short meditation. It’s simple, flexible, and easy to enter at any point in the season. Our Advent journey opens us to the gift of sacred time with God, with each other, and with those in need of hope.    “Keep awake therefore, for you do not know on what day your Lord is coming.”  Matthew 24: 42   How can I be present with others this day and shine

This year’s Advent devotional uses a new format. In place of longer written pieces, each day offers a scripture, an image, and a short meditation. It’s simple, flexible, and easy to enter at any point in the season. We begin our Advent by emphasizing the gift of being awake to the “now”… the gift of sacred time with God, with each other, and with those in need of hope.      “… you know what time it is.  The hour has already come for you to wake up from your sleep… the night i

Friends, Christmas shows up every year—yes, every single year—and somehow it still manages to catch us off guard. After what feels like only a few short months, we find ourselves preparing again to hear the ancient story of Christ’s birth. We need this story. We rely on it to speak hope, peace, love, and joy into a world—and into our own lives—that feel stretched thin. As we move through Advent, the questions rise naturally: How does the birth of one small baby—this particula

Dear Westminster, This past Sunday, the congregation gathered following worship to hear the recommendation from the Pastor Nominating Committee for Westminster’s next Senior Pastor and Head of Staff. After a season of conversation, listening, prayer, and discernment, the Pastor Nominating Committee brought forward the Rev. Betsy Lyles Swetenburg for the congregation’s consideration. Borrowing language from Betsy’s own Statement of Faith, the committee shared that this call ha

Since our first meeting of the Pastor Nominating Committee on March 13, we have worshiped together, listened to each other and prayed for...

Although it has been some time since the Transition Team’s primary responsibilities came to a close, we want to take a moment to share an...

We’re halfway through our Revive Us Again  sermon series, and it’s been a powerful journey so far. In week one, we explored devotion to...

When Hillary Kauffmann and Jim Wilkie talk about serving as elders at Westminster, they don’t mention titles or meetings. They talk about...

The PNC has been working hard since our inception and are beginning to work even harder now that both the Session and the Committee on...

Dear Westminster family, I’m thrilled to begin my role as Director of Community Connections on May 12th, and honored to have this...

Holy Week is the one time every year that we are invited to sit in the dark. Darkness, as it turns out, is pretty good at making us value...

The Pastor Nominating Committee (PNC) has met several times since the Congregational Meeting on March 9. We have worshiped together,...

Greetings – As a little boy, I learned a highly formative little song that anchored my faith through my childhood. You probably know it...

A person can go just about anywhere in the world and greet someone with a sign or symbol of peace and have some sign or symbol of peace...

We have trust issues. According to researchers, in most every area of our lives, our trust is diminishing. Our trust in business,...

December 25 Christmas Day Praise God in his holy house…praise him under the open skies; Praise him for his acts of power…praise him for...

December 24   Great is the Lord and greatly to be praised … One generation shall extol your works to another and shall declare your...