Into The Mystic With John Dorhauer

How effective would a little love of neighbor be in building a just world for all? During this season of Lent be open to a change of heart. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/unitedchurchofchrist/message

Be open to Lent as a time to pause, to open up space to pursue insight, and to make course corrections. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/unitedchurchofchrist/message

What can you commit to during this season of Lent that marks it as a time for deepening your relationship with your Creator? --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/unitedchurchofchrist/message

A trip to the Holy Land merges the sacred stories and places of our spiritual past with a political present rife with conflict. What will this trip mean? --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/unitedchurchofchrist/message

Never take for granted the love of a good friend. It is a blessing that time and distance seem incapable of eroding. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/unitedchurchofchrist/message

Giving into grief honors the life of a loved one lost. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/unitedchurchofchrist/message

What spiritually sustains you in times of sorrow and care? --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/unitedchurchofchrist/message

Faith, politics and protest. Giving public voice to frustration, fear, and anger – is acting out of and in good faith. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/unitedchurchofchrist/message

How do you put words to a vision big enough to change the world? What can we do today to make that dream a reality in today's America? --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/unitedchurchofchrist/message

Step out on faith. As agents of transformation and hope, we have to muster the courage to believe there is a way forward in troubling times. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/unitedchurchofchrist/message

Make a promise. See a future. Accept the invitation to be, to do, to act, to think in a way that opens up new horizons, new futures, new tomorrows. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/unitedchurchofchrist/message

There is so much joy in the world today. Step wisely, and find ways to celebrate it. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/unitedchurchofchrist/message

What’s your favorite Christmas tradition, passed on from one generation to the next in your family? --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/unitedchurchofchrist/message

We celebrate Advent as a time of expectation, of humble understanding that we are in need of the one who came before to show us the way. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/unitedchurchofchrist/message

What will you do this Advent, as a child of a loving God, to see justice for our neighbors? --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/unitedchurchofchrist/message

Each person is a gift from God – the UCC is called to welcome every one of them; to greet them with kindness, embrace their gifts, celebrate their talents. Orient your heart towards welcoming the stranger. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/unitedchurchofchrist/message

That God loves us in spite of our shortcomings, we are saved through grace by faith. That knowledge helps fuel our shared mission. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/unitedchurchofchrist/message

Unity is central to who we are. No love will be received, no welcome accepted, nor any justice survive if not offered in a true spirit of unity. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/unitedchurchofchrist/message

Why are we here? For what are we most needed? What are our creator’s expectations of us? --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/unitedchurchofchrist/message

Here's to endurance. Here's to a faith not shaken. Here's to the abiding presence of the sacred Grace of God. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/unitedchurchofchrist/message