Worship Service: There is Always Potential for Healing, Rev. Sage Olnick. In healthcare, integrity is something we must protect to promote healing and restoration. Whether treating pain, disease, or degeneration we focus on interventions to restore the body. Even when their isn’t a cure for the problem, there is always potential for healing
Worship Service: The Paradox of Self-Interest, Jane Palmer. 2020 will not be an easy year. We need to maintain our sanity, our courage, and our compassion, and we need to do so in a manner consistent with our moral principles. With integrity, in other words. Paradoxically, our strength lies in that most-maligned of all interests, self-interest. We are at our most powerful when we find our own stories in those of others and realize we have a stake in the game.
Worship Service: As we find ourselves amidst the Winter holiday season, we are reminded of the radically transient nature of our existence by the coming to an end of the year and the decade. As we also start to look forward, this morning’s service will explore how a skillful relationship to impermanence can allow us to not only avoid the suffering caused by unreasonable expectations but also to appreciate the miraculous nature of the present moment, something which the world’s many wisdom traditions point towards at this time of year.
Worship Service: When have you followed your star? Together we’ll explore this question in a lively all-ages celebration of the Christmas story and science.
Worship Service: During the winter holiday season, we are reminded of tradition and times of the past. We gather together and share stories. We tell stories of important memories, experiences, and life-lessons. This Sunday we will explore what it means to people of Awe who are shaped by the stories of our lives.”
Worship Service: Opening to Awe
Rev. Dr. Sandra Fees. This morning we reflect on the way religious experiences open us to awe and wonder. Our collection is a monthly share-the-plate and will benefit the Literacy Council of Reading-Berks.
Worship Service: The Awe in Nature.
Rev. Dr. Sandra Fees. Nature fills us with awe. Standing beneath the stars or on the top of a mountain or both can leave us breathless and more alive than we ever imagined possible. Join us as we explore nature’s essential role in our lives and our spiritual community.
Worship Service: Giving Thanks.
Ebee Bromley, Rev. Dr. Sandra Fees.
In this all-ages service of gratitude, we’ll focus our attention on what we are grateful for. Join us in story, song, and sharing in this lively, participatory Sunday morning experience.
This Sunday: Worship Service:
Hush, Rev. Dr. Sandra Fees.
It is increasingly difficult to find silence in our world, to discover places where we can be in solitude away from the noisiness, busyness, and distractions of life. This morning we’ll explore the need and longing our spirits have for moments of hushing. The service will include recognition of Transgender Day of Remembrance. And we’ll take our once-a-month special collection, this month to benefit Safe Berks, formerly Berks Women in Crisis
Worship Service:
Turbulence Is Coming, John Pavlovitz,, Rev. Dr. Sandra Fees.
Individually and as a nation we are experiencing a shaking. We now have the opportunity to be peace givers and not fear bringers, and to learn, as did the followers of Jesus, how to endure the turbulence and how, at times, to become the turbulence and how, at times, to become the turbulence. How can we leverage our lives to bring peace to those who are shaking.
