Due to continuing social distancing requirements, Kairos-Milwaukie United Church of Christ will not gather in person for worship or other events until further notice. Our church building is closed. Updates will be posted here as more information is available.
We will present a live worship experience every Sunday morning at 10:00 am by video streaming on ZOOM. See the Worship Streams section of our website for additional information.
In these anxious days, let’s remember to pause at the end of each day, breathe deeply, rest in the presence of the Great Love and hold each other in the light.
Updated: 4/4/2020 11:55 am
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“In every moment, God is mending what is from the depths of what is. Tragic or magic, momentous or mundane, every moment is a choice to join in harmony or sit idlily by. Be ready. The light of the lamp of your heart lit enlightens the world and guides us in this darkness.”
Luke 12: 32-40
Duration: about 24 minutes
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“This is how we participate in eternal life, in life that is whole: we attend to God by attending to one another. This is the essence of religious community, and the essence of a truly human life.”
Luke 10: 25-37
Duration: about 21 minutes
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“Jesus sends us back to where we came from to spread the good news of what God has done for us, and to be encouragement to the other humans running whatever race life has given them… and to be a witness against a system that is set up to serve some and dispossess others; Jesus names us disciples.”
I Kings 19: 8-12
Luke 8: 26-39
Duration: about 17 minutes
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“Right here, woven throughout the biblical tradition, we have her: Wisdom, personified as a woman who has been with God since the beginning, present in creation the whole time. Wisdom who invites us to listen, and to align ourselves in our deepest being to her presence.”
Proverbs 8: 1-14, 22-35a
Duration: about 23 minutes
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“…another trademark of the Holy Spirit is to give people the grace to forgive.”
Acts 2: 1-21
John 14: 8-9, 15-17
Duration: about 19 minutes
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“In fact, that is all that the life as a disciple of Christ requires: to be willing to both give and receive welcome.”
Acts 16: 9-15
John 14: 22-29
Duration: about 18 minutes
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“Love is obviously not just the tender feelings that the word evokes… And as both Jesus’ command to love and the story from the Acts of the Apostles makes clear, it is not enough to love the ones we already like and feel drawn to, the ones we feel kinship and identity with, the ones who fill us automatically with feelings of warmth and tenderness. It isn’t enough to love just the ones who belong to our group, our religion, or state or region or country; the ones who speak our language and get our jokes, understand our cultural references. The love that Jesus calls his disciples us to, the love that the Spirit called Peter to, that love has no boundaries.”
John 13: 31-35
Acts 11: 1-18
Duration: about 17 minutes
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