Emmaus UCC is a progressive, open and affirming congregation that celebrates the diverse theological beliefs of its members within a warm Christian community. 

We covenant with each other to further our personal relationship with God, to support the process of private discernment, and to hear God speak through a wide range of teachers. 

Our actions reflect our belief that God is still speaking in the modern World.

A Message from Reverend Bill

 

Lent reminds us that we need to turn and “collect” ourselves in preparation for the great Feast of the Resurrection.

We have a hard time with Easter. It reminds us of our potential and our possibility as we live in the power and the presence of sacred covenant. Easter says Life is invincible; and we are unconditionally loved and held in a larger beauty and a larger joy.

What a hard fact to grasp! In the face of natural, economic, political, health, and personal disasters who can truly believe in Resurrection---that moment when death is vanquished and sorrow is no more? When we live in the valley, it is hard to imagine life on the mountaintop.

Lent can prepare us for this greatest fact of Life---a Resurrection of our core sense of Being. On one hand, we can take stock of our shortcomings, our weakness, our habits and conditionings that make us miss the mark.  On the other, we can  take stock of the strengths, habits and conditionings that help us always choose compassion over disinterest, justice over oppression, and love over hate. We can as an intentional Lenten practice, symbolically “collect” all these and offer it to the One who is always and constantly moving, breathing and living us towards Resurrection.

All Love, great and small,

Reverend Bill