Crazy Forgiveness, Crazy Gratitude 9:00 a.m.
Rev. Brent Sprunger
11/26/17
Morning Words 10:15 a.m.
Rob Simon
11/26/17
Description:Start each day with a grateful heart.
Physical Health
Rev. Kent H. Little
10/22/17
Description:Take care of your body, it's the only place you have to live. Jim RohnLife expectancy would grow by leaps and bounds if green vegetables smelled as good as bacon. Doug Larson
Stress and Blessing of the Animals
Rev. Kent H. Little
10/15/17
Description:Happiness is a warm puppy. Charles SchulzAny glimpse into the life of an animal quickens our own and makes it so much larger and better in every way. John MuirCats are connoisseurs of comfort. James Herriot
Grief
Rev. Kent H. Little
10/8/17
Description:I don't think of misery, but of all the beauty that remains. Anne FrankAt some of the darkest moments in my life, some people I thought of as friends deserted me - some because they cared about me and it hurt them to see me in pain; others because I reminded them of their own vulnerability, and that was more than they could handle. But real friends overcame their discomfort and came to sit with me. If they had not words to make me feel better, they sat in silence (much better than saying, "You'll get over it," or "It's not so bad; others have it worse") and I loved them for it. ~ Harold Kushner
The Power and Glory in Giving
Rev. Gary Harms
10/1/17
Description:No One is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another. Charles DickensWe make a living by what we get. We make a life by what we give. Winston Churchill
Beyond Our Doors
CHUM Youth
9/24/17
Description:Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared. ~BuddhaI don't want to live in the kind of world where we don't look out for each other. Not just the people that are close to us, but anybody who needs a helping hand. I can’t change the way anybody else thinks, or what they choose to do, but I can do my bit. ~Charles de Lint
Speaking of Faith
Rev. Kent H. Little
9/17/17
Description:You do not need to know precisely what is happening, or exactly where it is all going. What you need is to recognize the possibilities and challenges offered by the present moment, and to embrace them with courage, faith and hope. Thomas MertonFaith is about doing. You are how you act, not just how you believe. Mitch Albom
Does Religion Matter?
Rev. Kent H. Little
9/10/17
Description:Look for God, suggests my Guru.Look for God like a man with his head on fire looks for water.Elizabeth GilbertThe Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult; and left untried.G.K. Chesterton
Wonder Woman
Rev. Kent H. Little
9/3/17
Description:I wish grace and healing were more abracadabra kind of things. Also, that delicate silver bells would ring to announce grace's arrival. But no, it's clog and slog and scootch, on the floor, in the silence, in the dark. ~ Anne LamottIt's about what you believe. And I believe in love. Only love will truly save the world. ~ Wonder Woman
Collateral Beauty
Rev. Kent H. Little
8/27/17
Description:Have enough courage to trust love one more time and always one more time. Maya AngelouTime is a created thing. To say 'I con't have time,' is like saying, 'I don't want to.' Lao Tzu
Hidden Figures
Rev. Kent H. Little
8/20/17
Description:No human race is superior; no religious faith is inferior. All collective judgments are wrong. Only racists make them. Elle WieselThree hundred years of humiliation, abuse and deprivation cannot be expected to find voice in a whisper. Martin Luther King Jr.
The Shack
Rev. Kent H. Little
8/13/17
Description:You will lose someone you can't live without, and your heart will be badly broken, and the bad news is that you never completely get over the loss of your beloved. But this is also the good news. They live forever in your broken heart that doesn't seal back up. And you come through. It's like having a broken leg that never heals perfectly - that still hurts when the weather gets cold, but you learn to dance with the limp. Anne Lamott...if anything matters then everything matters. Because you are important, everything you do is important. Every time you forgive, the universe changes; every time you reach out and touch a heart or a life, the world changes; with every kindness and service, seen or unseen, God's purposes are accomplished and nothing will be the same again. The Shack
Moana
Rev. Kent H. Little
8/6/17
Description:When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right. SenecaOur prime purpose in life is to help others. And if you can't help them, at least don't hurt them. Dalai Lama
Jesus and the Transgender Person
Rev. Kent H. Little
7/30/17
Description:The condition of truth, is to allow suffering to speak. Which means attend to suffering of the least of these, of the orphan, the widow, the poor, the working people, the gay brother, the lesbian sister, the transgender, the black people. Cornel West
Jesus and the Acts of War
Rev. Kent H. Little
7/23/17
Description:All war is a symptom of man's failure as a thinking animal. John SteinbeckEvery gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists , the hopes of its children. This is not a way of life at all in any true sense. Under the clouds of war, it is humanity hanging on a cross of iron. Dwight D. Eisenhower
Jesus and the Refugee
Rev. Kent H. Little
7/16/17
Description:Seeking asylum is a human right. Amnesty InternationalYou have to understand, no one puts their children in a boat unless the water is safer than the land. Warson Shire
Jesus and American Exceptionalism
Rev. Kent H. Little
7/2/17
Description:I believe in American exceptionalism, just as I suspect that the Brits believe in British exceptionalism and the Greeks believe in Greek exceptionalism. Barack ObamaWe must be ready to learn from one another, not claiming that we alone possess all truth and that somehow we have a corner on God. Desmond Tutu
Come Out
Rev. Kent H. Little
4/2/17
Description:Freedom lies in being bold. Robert FrostThose who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves. Abraham Lincoln
Give Me A Drink
Rev. Kent H. Little
3/19/17
Description:A waiting person is a patient person. The word patience means the willingness to stay where we are and live the situation out to the full in the belief that something hidden there will manifest itself to us. Henri J.M. Nouwen
In The Dark
Rev. Kent H. Little
3/12/17
Description:I am a forest, and a night of dark trees: but he who is not afraid of my darkness, will find banks full of roses under my cypresses. Friedrich Nietzsche