Looking for the Light

"There are weary travelers searching everywhere you go
Strangers who are searching, longing deeply to be known
May you find a light to guide you home."
— "May You Find a Light," by The Brilliance

In January, we begin the season of Epiphany. We most associate Epiphany with the magi, strangers from far away, following a star to bring strange gifts and even stranger tidings to Mary and Jesus. This well-known story, though, is just the beginning of a season which is all about the ways that the good news of great joy which we sing of on Christmas begins to spread beyond Bethlehem to truly be for all people. It is a season of looking for the light, of paying attention to the ways God's love shines in the world.

Starting on January 8th, we'll begin a four-week sermon series called "Where is God when...?", asking the question of how we look for God in times and places when it's difficult for us, or perhaps for the people around us, to see God's love. We'll talk about God's presence when the world seems divided; when we feel lonely; when someone we know is very sick; and when we're not sure how to help.

My hope is that these topics will be helpful for many of you, and also that they will create opportunities for conversations with neighbors and friends who may be wondering some of these same things. We are all, in one way or another, looking for the light. We come to church seeking companions on that journey. And each of us, in turn, has some of that light, some of God's love, to shine on the world.

Grace + Peace,

David

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Zoom Worship Services - Sunday Mornings at 11:00 a.m.

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ZOOM PRAYER AND FELLOWSHIP - WEDNESDAYS AT 6:30 P.M.

We hope you will join us at 6:30 p.m. On Wednesday evenings for a half-hour of prayer and fellowship. We come together to lean upon each other, to share our hearts joys and concerns and to offer up to God our lives in faithfulness. Being together, even at a distance, is communion.  

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Sojourners Zoom Sunday School Class - Sunday Morning at 10:00 a.m.

Our study for this Fall will be the "Other" books of the New Testament, such as I, II, III John, I and II Peter, Jude, James, Philemon, Titus and I and II Timothy. These classes are recorded and available on the Sojourners Sunday School page and on the BACC YouTube channel.

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