Subject: Who sinned?
Who sinned?
March 17th, 2023 at 10:00 am ESTDear Hot Metal Community, We continue in our Lenten season of embracing hard questions with the story of the man born blind (John 9:1-41), and the question, Who sinned? This is the question so many ask of Jesus about this man, assuming that ...
Sign up for the Listening Season!
March 10th, 2023 at 9:54 am ESTDear Hot Metal Community, This Sunday our own (officially Commissioned Pastor!) Karl Casey will share the story of Jesus encountering the Samaritan woman at the well. This is one of my favorite stories, as it's one of the few examples of s ...
How do we begin again?
March 3rd, 2023 at 12:59 pm ESTDear Hot Metal Community, We continue our Lenten journey with the question, How do we begin again? Here's a poem with that same title by Rev. Sarah (Are) Speed, to center you this week as we ponder this question together. Do we slide into ...
A new Spencer LaJoye song for Lent!
February 24th, 2023 at 12:42 pm ESTDear 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 beco ...
The Listening Season starts Sunday! Sign up for a time today!
February 17th, 2023 at 10:23 am ESTDear 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 ...
See you Sunday!
February 10th, 2023 at 12:49 pm ESTDear 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 ...
Erin Angeli's Ordination is THIS Saturday!!
February 3rd, 2023 at 10:00 am ESTDear 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 ...
The Listening Season
January 27th, 2023 at 1:00 pm ESTDear 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 ...
Save the Date! Ash Wednesday
January 20th, 2023 at 10:00 am ESTDear 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 p ...
Entering "Ordinary Time"
January 13th, 2023 at 10:30 am ESTDear 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 wh ...