Posts from Annie Saunders
March 22 Full Service
Did you happen to miss Ascension’s livestream yesterday? Or maybe you did tune in but need some prayerful church time again? Don’t fret! You can watch our full service by clicking on the video below.
Posted on March 23, 2020 | Posted by Annie Saunders
Community
“We can be there for each other as a community the way God calls us to be…” Watch the video below to hear more on Pastor Dan’s community sermon.
Posted on March 10, 2020 | Posted by Annie Saunders
Squirm: Faith & Wealth
My challenge for you today is this: Trusting fully in God’s love,wrestle with your own wealth, big or small. Wrestle with how it may bepreventing you or another from experiencing the kingdom of God. Ifyou’re willing to do that. If you’re willing to let God make you squirma little, then God just might end up […]
Posted on March 2, 2020 | Posted by Annie Saunders
God is Not Far from Us
“…and all around you, whether you see it, or feel it, or not–God is present, with us, upholding us. Through this journey that you and I have to take, even when you can’t see it, don’t feel it, don’t always recognize it.” To hear more about Pastor Dan’s sermon on God’s Nearness, follow the links […]
Posted on February 26, 2020 | Posted by Annie Saunders
The Inescapable Mess
The bad news is this: there is nowhere to run. The evil, the sin,the despair, the mess of this world is within you. The good news this: In a manger, around tables with sinners andscribes, on both sides of the sea, up on that cross, and at this table –God enters into the mess, knowing […]
Posted on February 18, 2020 | Posted by Annie Saunders
Witnesses of God’s Nearness
Our reading from Mark 6 has Jesus sending his disciples out to practice what they have learned from him. The heart of Jesus’ teaching and example is that the Kingdom of God is near. Even though the people were poor, had little say, and were all too often sick, God’s presence and blessings were for them through […]
Posted on February 11, 2020 | Posted by Annie Saunders
Hope Beyond the Chronic and Terminal
We all know the feeling of chronic suffering. The sense of pain,division, or malaise that never ends. The chronic feels beyond hope. We also know the feeling of terminal suffering. The sense of a pendingend that cannot be stopped. The terminal feels beyond hope. But in astory of two healings we discover that in Jesus we […]
Posted on February 3, 2020 | Posted by Annie Saunders
Bold Faith
“If God comes and tears that barrier down, if God is as close as the bread and wine are to my lips, as close as the hymns we sing together–if God is that close, then that bold faith (the sort of faith I can imagine) maybe that’s the kind of faith we together could muster.” […]
Posted on January 14, 2020 | Posted by Annie Saunders
Keep Awake Together
“So we need to keep awake. Stay alert. How do we do that? I believe it’s something we need to do together. As a community, we need to remind each other that there is this urgency, that our end is coming, that there are things we still need to do. That God has left us […]
Posted on December 2, 2019 | Posted by Annie Saunders
The Tale of a Book
This is the tale of a book. The book. And even this tale has been anoccasion for faith. To think of how this book has been used by God intimes of darkness to provide light. From when the book was just a setof ideas to when it was slowly being put together, to the milleniasince, […]
Older Posts