Each Sunday during Advent (the 4-week season leading to Christmas), we light an additional candle on our Advent wreath. Last week we lit the Candle of Peace, remembering that Christ offers us a peace that passes all understanding. This week we light the Candle of Hope. Hope is the life-force God has given us that helps us put one foot in front […]

This Sunday marks the beginning of Advent – a 4-week season leading up to Christmas. The word “advent” comes from the Latin meaning “to come to” or “to come toward.” During Advent we remember and reflect on how God comes into the world and into our lives through the Christ. One of our rituals at Oak Hill is the lighting of candles on […]

Message This is going to be a different Thanksgiving for my family. For the last 15 years my sister’s family, our parents, and my immediate family have gotten together at Thanksgiving. Over the years we’ve included assorted friends. There is always lots of food, conversation, and laughter. After the death of my dad last year, our brother and his crew joined the mix. […]

Who is welcome? Who is welcome to receive God’s Love in Christ and, therefore, be part of the community called the Church? That is a question with which Christians and the Church have often wrestled for nearly 2,000 years. In the Early Church, the question revolved around race. Was God’s Love in Christ available only […]

Sometimes I read a scripture passage and know deep inside how it applies to my life. The psalmist proclaims, “O taste and see that the Lord is good; happy are those who take refuge in him” (Psalm 34:8). That is an invitation to experience the goodness of God’s Love. Other times, however, a scripture passage […]