Subject: A new Spencer LaJoye song for Lent!

A new Spencer LaJoye song for Lent!

February 24th, 2023 at 12:42 pm EDT

 Dear Hot Metal Community, This week we enter into the season of Lent. This is traditionally the 40(ish) days leading up to Easter that was used to prepare those who would be baptized on Easter Eve. In the centuries of the Church, it has become ...

The Listening Season starts Sunday! Sign up for a time today!

February 17th, 2023 at 10:23 am EDT

 Dear Hot Metal Community,  This week, we hear the story of Jesus' Transfiguration on the mountaintop - a time when God's presence shines brightly and Jesus' identity as the Beloved is once again affirmed. And God delivers one of my favorite l ...

See you Sunday!

February 10th, 2023 at 12:49 pm EDT

 Dear Hot Metal Community, We'll finish up our mini-season rooted in prayer and psalms with perhaps the most widely known Psalm 23. We'll discover how familiar words and images can lead to deeper reflection and imagination and connection when w ...

Erin Angeli's Ordination is THIS Saturday!!

February 3rd, 2023 at 10:00 am EDT

 Dear Hot Metal Community, As we continue rooting ourselves in the prayers of the Psalms, we'll turn to Psalm 15 this week. Originally, scholars believe this was used as a hymn as people entered into the Temple, as it outlines the actions of th ...

The Listening Season

January 27th, 2023 at 1:00 pm EDT

 Dear Hot Metal Community, We'll continue in our mini-season of rooting our worship and reflection in the Psalms. Psalm 27 offers words of praise to God because the psalmist has been able to find a safe dwelling in God's love.  What are the bu ...

Save the Date! Ash Wednesday

January 20th, 2023 at 10:00 am EDT

 Dear Hot Metal Community,  We're continuing in our mini-(extra)ordinary season after Epiphany and before Lent with another Psalm. Psalm 40 is full of beautiful images of God's steadfast love and gifts of grace. It's inspired many songs of pra ...

Entering "Ordinary Time"

January 13th, 2023 at 10:30 am EDT

 Dear Hot Metal Community,  As winter settles in more consistently, but perhaps without the same vengeance of the freeze over Christmas, we turn in our worship to the coziness of ordinary time. It's a time in-between the high holy seasons wher ...

Happy New Year!

January 6th, 2023 at 11:17 am EDT

 Dear Hot Metal Community!  This Sunday we'll celebrate the day of Epiphany, and hear the story of the Magi who followed a star to find the Christ Child. We'll continue our annual practice of choosing a Star Word. Here's some background on thi ...

NO ZOOM CHURCH THIS MORNING

January 1st, 2023 at 10:43 am EDT

View onlineNO CHURCH THIS MORNING ON ZOOM, TECHNICAL DIFFICULTIES, SORRY YINZ