by Tami Spindler | Apr 21, 2025 | News
We Had Hoped… One year ago I was in the very early days of the first sabbatical I had ever earned in my nearly 20 years of vocational ministry. I had so many hopes and plans for the time I was scheduled to be away – time for rest and travel, study and prayer,...
by Tami Spindler | Apr 14, 2025 | News
A Reflection by Rev Roberto Ochoa, Conference MinisterIowa Nebraska South Dakota Conferences of the United Church of Christ “But I trust in you, O Lord, I say ‘You are my God’” Psalms 31:14 (NRSVUE) Holy Week is the core of Christianity’s understanding of...
by Tami Spindler | Apr 7, 2025 | News
A reflection by Rev. Roberto Ochoa, Conference Minister, Iowa Nebraska South Dakota Conferences of the United Church of Christ. Let the heavens rejoice, let the earth be glad…and all that is in it. Let the fields be jubilant, and everything in them; let all the trees...
by Tami Spindler | Mar 31, 2025 | News
“Be not forgetful to entertain strangers: for thereby some have entertained angels unawares.” Hebrews 13:2 When I was in confirmation class many years ago, I don’t recall especially that there was an assignment around choosing a “life...
by Tami Spindler | Mar 24, 2025 | News
Join together in following my example, brothers and sisters, and just as you have us as a model, keep your eyes on those who live as we do. ~ Philippians 3:17 Even as we aspire to hope for new life, if we are honest, new life scares us. New life is annoying....
by Tami Spindler | Mar 17, 2025 | News
“And when you pray, do not be like the hypocrites, for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and on the street corners to be seen by others. Truly I tell you, they have received their reward in full. But when you pray, go into your room, close the...
by Tami Spindler | Mar 10, 2025 | News
The devil led Jesus up to a high place and showed him in an instant all the kingdoms of the world. And he said to him, “I will give you all their authority and splendor; it has been given to me, and I can give it to anyone I want to. If you worship me, it will...
by Tami Spindler | Mar 4, 2025 | News
“God has shown you, O mortal, what is good. And what does the Lord require of you? To act justly and to love mercy and to walk humbly with your God.” ~Micah 6:8 Jesus did not come into this world to stroke the egos of the powerful, but to challenge the statusquo and...
