Open Table

as well intentioned as we mean for our words or actions to be, are they stumbling blocks for others? Who or what do we let stumble us? Now I don’t have to tell you… you already know this – especially at our age… I hope so anyway… that unless you fall you really won’t know how to get up… let alone if you stumble – how to find balance, even in the struggle to not be embarrassed by stumbling or even falling… Know that God is always there to catch us… even when we have forgotten – who we can turn...Read Full Story

“ unchangeable Truths ” -  Rev. Terry J. McGuire unchangeable Truths, it is never the truth that changes only our understanding of it… we are promised that God will place it on our hearts and minds as to what will apply to our lives, “I will show you” so who do we allow to show us, who are we willing to risk our lives with? Who is the “I” in our lives… no amount of proof, can convince anyone of the truth… it either resonates with you – or it does not… Gods’ words never changes only our...Read Full Story

“ R E S T O R E D ” – from exile to greatness Rev. Terry J. McGuire have you ever felt like you were in exile? I have, and I think if we truly reflect on our lives, we too would find that we have been, at one point or another through out our life time… In our exile what have we learned? ‘there is always restoration that we too share in the Divine – the hope of our humanity to be restored in relationship with God and one another.’ We find it is only in our own suffering that change is possible...Read Full Story

  what will it take? I can't answer that for you, but I can tell you what it won't – fear, for Christ himself, said 'do not be afraid' so if we truly believe – then fear has no space in our lives, fear not... 'for I Am with you always'... is it that we fail to see the relevance of the Scriptures today, is it because we fail to see Christ in our everyday lives' and in the world around us? If we are without Christ, then we fail before we begin, here in the Scriptures today, we hear God asking...Read Full Story

“ Come, without cost” how often will we ever get an invitation like that… few if ever, so often there are strings attached, or an agenda set, or stipulations or expectations of something more, or in exchange for reciprocation… and in our Scripture readings today… we find an invitation to come… to share in the greatness and goodness of our God, without exception or expectation, that through Christ, we now have the Holy Spirit to guide is in all truth, so that none would ever be lost for ever...Read Full Story