http://www.spiritaliveon65.org No matter where you are on life's journey, you are welcome here. Fri, 27 Aug 2010 05:00:00 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 http://www.spiritaliveon65.org/urgency http://www.spiritaliveon65.org/urgency#comments Fri, 27 Aug 2010 05:00:00 +0000 ucc_content http://www.ucc.org-168308093 In seminary we were taught to pretty much disregard words like the ones that begin this passage, “The end of all things is near.” “Early Christians,” we were told, “expected the Second Coming of Christ and the end of history to happen very soon. But we know that didn’t happen.”

]]> http://www.spiritaliveon65.org/urgency/feed 0 http://www.spiritaliveon65.org/get-the-download http://www.spiritaliveon65.org/get-the-download#comments Thu, 26 Aug 2010 05:00:00 +0000 ucc_content http://www.ucc.org-168307517 When your computer begins to run a bit slow and you get a pop-up window notifying you of an upgrade and asking if you want to download it now, do you think to yourself, ‘I don’t have time today. I’ll do it later” You put it off . . . and off . . . and off. Eventually your application grinds to a near halt. You now have no choice but to download the upgrade.

]]> http://www.spiritaliveon65.org/get-the-download/feed 0 http://www.spiritaliveon65.org/improvising http://www.spiritaliveon65.org/improvising#comments Wed, 25 Aug 2010 05:00:00 +0000 ucc_content http://www.ucc.org-168306781 Improvisation is when you don’t have enough information to do anything but just take the next step. Actors say the secret to improvisation is to go only as far as you have to and not a step or second further. No justifications, explanations, exclamations. No ‘ahems’ or throat-clearings. Just one step forward.

]]> http://www.spiritaliveon65.org/improvising/feed 0 http://www.spiritaliveon65.org/burned-in-the-fire http://www.spiritaliveon65.org/burned-in-the-fire#comments Tue, 24 Aug 2010 05:00:00 +0000 ucc_content http://www.ucc.org-167450708 In today’s passage, Jeremiah expresses God’s displeasure at the practice of human sacrifice, which at least some in his day were apparently indulging in. He makes it clear that God is categorically against the practice, and further, that any ‘god’ that asks for it is in fact no god at all.

]]> http://www.spiritaliveon65.org/burned-in-the-fire/feed 0 http://www.spiritaliveon65.org/ucc-church-in-michigan-opens-its-doors-to-local-college%e2%80%99s-communication-school http://www.spiritaliveon65.org/ucc-church-in-michigan-opens-its-doors-to-local-college%e2%80%99s-communication-school#comments Tue, 24 Aug 2010 05:00:00 +0000 ucc_content http://www.ucc.org-168279167 Expanding its seven-year partnership with Grand Valley State University, St. John’s United Church of Christ in Grand Rapids, Mich., opened its doors this summer to the university’s School of Communication.

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