In troubled times, God is creating and inviting us into simplicity of living and relationships grounded in peace.

Out of the rubble, God encourages us to rebuild: Something will rise up out of this, and we will build it together.

God keeps watch with us over the trouble in this world. We, then, keep watch for how God is on the move, and join together in God’s healing, saving work.

Empathizing with Elijah in the cave, guest preacher Rev. Scott Quinn invited us to think of the stories that hold us back; to notice the nearness of God; and to know that we are seen, heard, and held.

Even in calamity, God is near, inviting us to build and plant and live to heal the world.

God exhorts us to pray for all people – including our leaders – so that all people may live free.

Constancy is a quality of God: "Jesus is the same yesterday, today, and forever." We are called to live our lives consistently with God's steadfast love.

Over the breadth of Scripture, humanity encounters God, not only in the bright light of day, but when the shadows fall, and the world becomes still. At night, God keeps close, and we will not be left alone.

Jesus rejects the world’s separations and the “politics of disgust,” and insists that we welcome everyone to the table of community and shared power.