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- Written by: Redeemer
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Join us this Easter Season online for a book study and discussion about LGBTQ+ Welcome Through Our Churches.
This critical study and discussion focuses on Reverend Elizabeth Edman's book that focuses on the heart of scripture and simple, disruptive ways that illuminate contemporary Christian faith and push past the notion that "Christian love = tolerance."
Stepping off from Rev. Erdman's book, we'll consider how to deepen and build welcome for LGBTQ people through our churches and take our message of reconciling love to the streets, just in time for the Hudson Valley Pride Parade on Sunday, June 4th.
Sessions for this vital study and discussion begin on Wednesday, April 19th, 6:30 - 9 pm, with daytime sessions beginning Thursday, April 20th, 1 - 2:30 pm.
For more information, including a link to purchase the book and join the event, please visit https://redeemernewpaltz.org/events/queer-virtue
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- Written by: Pastor Tobias
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I’ve been thinking a lot about the power of music lately and about the awesomeness of God.
A couple of weeks ago our accompanist and choir director, Zhanna, and I were meeting to work on hymn selections, but also on plans for special music, such as (hopefully) a trombone added to the Gathering Hymn on Palm/Passion Sunday, and the trumpet player who will (hopefully) be playing with us on Easter Sunday, and the choir anthem that will be sung on that first glorious Sunday of Easter when we are drawn forth with organ and trumpet from our Lenten time of fasting and preparation and into the glorious Easter season, a time for praising and glorifying the risen Christ who draws us into new and risen life.
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Redeemer’s Church Council has been exploring the potential of installing a solar array over the last four months. At our Community Meeting held after worship on February 26th, we shared the following presentation as part of inviting the entire congregation to join us in prayer and discernment. We invite you to check out the presentation in full, but also to read through the following highlights.
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- Written by: Deacon Bill Mennenga
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As I started writing this month’s Ministry in Motion note, I found my thoughts scattered. So I turned to God, through prayer, to give me guidance. This is what came to me.
I returned to God and church in January, 2017. Since then I have learned how powerful prayer is.
Then, guided by Pastor Tobias, I really started to feel it. No, there were no loud claps of thunder, rather there was a gentle nudge to listen to the gentle breezes and whispers through which God speaks to us.
I was blessed to be nudged to attend Diakonia classes where I stumbled across the following quote from Martin Luther that I’ve found not only helpful, but impactful: