I had a strange experience earlier today. I was looking out the window at a row of wide-open yellow blooms on a cactus in our front yard, thinking about how they’d opened up in the sunshine, when the words “Stay …
I had a strange experience earlier today. I was looking out the window at a row of wide-open yellow blooms on a cactus in our front yard, thinking about how they’d opened up in the sunshine, when the words “Stay …
For a long time when I was young, I thought it was strange that in the Apostles’ Creed we say that we believe in the communion of saints. After all the stuff about God, here’s something that’s about us. And …
Join us to worship the risen lord! At 10 a.m. gather on Zoom for a brief worship service with Holy Communion to be followed by coffee hour. The Zoom invitation is in the Words of Hope email newsletter. For security …
The Way of the Cross, a worship service organized and recorded at Holy Trinity, Chandler, is available now for viewing on YouTube. Bishop Deborah Hutterer presided, and pastors from Fiesta Conference, including our Past Carol, participated. Pastor Carol has posted …
Sisters and brothers, we’re gathered this evening because it’s a very particular Thursday in a very particular week, Holy Week, when we remember and contemplate what Jesus did and what happened to him in his final days before his death. …
Each week during Lent a member of our congregation has looked at a piece of religious art and shared some thoughts. On this Maundy Thursday, Alice Schultze examines Dali’s famous painting, ending with a poem. By Alice Schultze This is …
The text for this Palm Sunday morning is Matthew 21: 1-17 Let us worship together as we learn from Pastor Carol’s sermon and approach our Lord in prayer.
Robert Elsaesser prepared this presentation for our April 1 Lenten worship service, cancelled due to the public health emergency. Please listen to the recordings (boldface links) in order. Click on the boldface link first, then click back to the main …
The grief and stress of this COVID-19 pandemic is exhausting. Healthcare workers around the world are wearing themselves out doing everything they can with what they have to work with. But even those of us not on the front lines …
Dear Esperanza friends, For this week’s Lenten Midweek meditation, I thought I’d offer this meditation on what Jesus said are the two greatest commandments: “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your strength, and with all your mind; and your neighbor as yourself” (Luke 10:27). …
Readings for this Sunday, March 22, include the prophet Samuel anointing David to be the second king of Israel (1 Samuel 16:1-13), the well-known “The Lord is my shepherd” psalm (Psalm 23), a passage from Paul’s letter to the Ephesians …
Dear Esperanza friends, It’s our usual day for Lenten Midweek worship. Though we can’t be together, I invite you to pray with me, read a meditation, and listen to Holden Evening Prayer. Let’s pray together: Holy Spirit, you draw us …