Creationtide 1: Your Heart is a Garden in Which God Desires to Grow Goodness

Join us for Cn Tim Clayton's sermon: Creationtide 1: Your Heart is a Garden in Which God Desires to Grow Goodness

We begin this season of Creationtide with a lovely sermon from Tim.
From our scripture in Colossians 1: (from the First Nations Version (of the NT), An Indigenous Translation of the New Testament.)
"He is the one who is in first place and the head of all things. It is in him that all things come together and find their full meaning and purpose. He is also the head of his body (on earth), the sacred family. He is in first place before all other things, the first to rise to life from among those who have died. In this way, he remains chief in all things.

It made our Great Father’s heart glad to have all that he is living in his Son. Through his Son he brought together everything in the spirit-world above and on the earth below into harmony with himself, making peace through his life-blood poured out on the cross."

Your Heart is a Garden - In Which God Desires to Grow Goodness.
This means that our church community is a garden in which God longs to grow His goodness. It means that your existence and your "being" is a beautiful thing. God is inviting us into His peace, into the understanding that in His eyes and heart, we are each beautifully and wonderfully made.

The Word of God (Jesus Christ) reigns because He deserves too. Because He gave Himself out of self-giving love and therefore "death" had no right over Him and Jesus defeated death and came back as the first SEED of new life. The love of God is truly the source and the goal of ALL that is. That may seem like a "big cosmic thing", but it's really a deeply personal reality for each one of us, just as we are.

History of Creationtide: The Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew (Eastern Orthodox) proposed in 1989 that September 1st (the first day of the Orthodox Church year) should be observed as a day “of protection of the natural environment”. In 2016, Pope Francis declared 1 September an annual World Day of Prayer for the Care of Creation. This was expanded in Europe to be a season — Creationtide — going from September 1st until October 4th (the Feast of St Francis), and has been adopted in many churches around the world, including some in the Anglican Communion.

Sunday Mornings
Join us Sunday Mornings at 930 am on Boston's North Shore in Hamilton, MA. We meet Outdoors this season, on the lawn near the Retreat House on the beautiful and scenic campus of Gordon Conwell Theological Seminary 21 Billy Graham Way, South Hamilton, MA 01982.

In case of rain, or heat/humidity we go indoors to the Kaiser Chapel.

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May the peace of God be with you today.