by Kristin Bloxham | Dec 1, 2025
Today marks the beginning of Advent and the start of a new theme: “You’re invited to hope. We will hear a hope-filled message from the prophet Isaiah who proclaims that those who have been experiencing gloom and anguish and walking in dark days have seen a great light. And more, a child has been born for us. He will be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace. He will establish endless peace and uphold it with justice. With this message we are indeed invited to hope.
by Kristin Bloxham | Nov 24, 2025
A message from the series “Invited To…Serve.” Bloom where you are planted. Flowers bloom to attract bees. Bees go from plant to plant, pollinating along their way. Many of those plants feed animals, and each animal nurtures the world in its own peculiar way. In this string of being, nothing has to figure out what to do. It just does what it is. Can we do that, do you think? Can we just be servants, without having to figure out why and where and when and among whom?
by Kristin Bloxham | Nov 17, 2025
A message from the series “Invited To…Serve.” Live long and prosper. Probably even Mr. Spock would not define prosper in the way the word is generally understood in 21st Century US of A, and God most certainly does not. To prosper is to have more and more. To prosper is to be financially secure. To prosper is to be insulated from need. Through the prophet Isaiah, God tells us that to prosper means through service to bring to fruition that which God intends.
by Kristin Bloxham | Nov 10, 2025
A message from the series “Invited To…Serve.” Developing a theme that is gaining clarity, Amos speaks to us of what a “worship service” should be. It’s not an hour set aside for religion. It’s not music, however tuneful. It’s not liturgy (which literally means “the work of the people”). It’s justice and righteousness, right relationship.”
by Kristin Bloxham | Nov 3, 2025
A message from the series “Invited To…Serve.” “Get up and eat, or the journey will be too much for you.” “What journey?” Elijah might have asked. “I’ve booked no flight. I have no rental car waiting for me. Where am I going?” And God might have responded, “You are going where and to whom I am sending you.” We’re all on a journey, and it is not a journey of our choosing. It is a journey of serving our siblings and God’s good creation.
