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State of SFC Report

We are about 18 months in to this experiment so it’s time to share some data with you all.  I know that our story is not about the numbers, that stats don’t capture changed hearts and transformed lives, however numbers are an indicator of life in a...

Love

The last of the four traditional values of advent is love.  Hope, Peace, Joy, and Love are the ways we look for God breaking into our world again and again during the season of advent, which is the four weeks before Christmas. Love is the simplest thing in the...

Joy

This past week I was working on the worship order for Sunday on the same day the torture report came out.  If you haven’t heard this is the Senate Intelligence Committee’s report on the use of torture by the CIA after 9/11.  We as a nation did...

Peace

Advent is the time in the church year where we prepare ourselves to see God present in the world.  The traditional themes of Advent are Hope, Peace, Joy, and Love, so that is what I am writing about this season. Peace is the concept we focus on for the second...

Hope

The season of Advent began on Sunday.  This is a time in the church year when we train ourselves to look for the times that God breaks in to the world.  Of course we remember back to the first Christmas when God came as a vulnerable baby.  This is one...