Into The Mystic With John Dorhauer

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

In this election cycle, a litany of labels leads us to fear the other. Fear asks too much of us to be worth what we give over to it. Drop the labels and ‘Breathe deep the breath of God.' --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/unitedchurchofchrist/message