"Long before the Israelites wandered in the wilderness, a young Egyptian slave named Hagar also found herself in the wilderness. Today we hear her story."

“As the drama unfolds back in the desert, the complaint about manna intensifies into exasperated rage. The grievance spreads through the camp and boils over into a furious demand: “Give us meat to eat!

“We must be ready to allow ourselves to be interrupted by God.....We must not.....assume that our schedule is our own to manage, but allow it to be arranged by God.”

― Dietrich Bonhoeffer

How are we to now live after Easter has happened? Jesus came to give us life but it’s so easy for us to stay in Good Friday. Jesus rose from the dead to say ‘you can be resurrected too’ and begin transforming us from the inside out.

Easter Sunday 2019

Message from Rich & Dori Gorman on April 14, 2019

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