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The Messenger 2022-02-01
Gifts, Giving Up, and Giving Away
Dear Glen Mar Friends, As I write this, we are in a series called God.Gifts.You., which is about God’s call on every life generally and God’s call on your life in particular — a call to use the gifts God gives us to build up the body of Christ, and to share the life-giving message Christ brings and to make…
READ MORE Every Time I Feel the Spirit
By Pastor Melaina Trice Every Time I Feel the Spirit, an African American spiritual hymn, expresses the relationship between the Spirit and humankind. It is one of my favorite songs. “Every time I feel the Spirit moving…” says God’s Spirit is active, and can be felt; it can be experienced. While this notion of God being felt is steeped in…
READ MORE The Hope of Lent
By Pastor Heerak Kim “I despise your festivals…” Amos 5:21. It contradicts Genesis 1 in which God creates lights in the sky “for signs and for seasons and for days and years” (14), and also Genesis 8 where God promises to Noah after the flood, “As long as the earth endures, seedtime and harvests, cold and heat, summer and winter,…
READ MORE Experiencing the Journey to Bethlehem 2021
By Mary Ellen Conley December 2021 marked Glen Mar’s 14th Journey To Bethlehem (the name changed from “Walk” to “Journey” in 2020). As a Glen Mar employee, supporting event director Margaret Lang, I reluctantly began to volunteer in the jewelry hut in the market place in 2017. (I’m more of a “behind the scenes” person.) For the past two pandemic…
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