(704) 599-9810 | Worship Sundays @ 10:55 a.m.
(704) 599-9810 | Worship Sundays @ 10:55 a.m.
We are hearing that COVID-19 and other seasonal respiratory viruses are making rounds again in our community. As people of faith who care for one another, we want to remind everyone to take simple precautions that help protect both ourselves and others.
For more information on vaccines and prevention resources, visit the NC Department of Health and Human Services or check with your local pharmacy:
Thank you for doing your part to care for our church family and our wider community. Together, we embody Christ’s call to love our neighbor.
Author: Barbara Brown Taylor | Year: 2009
In this follow-up to Leaving Church, Barbara Brown Taylor invites us into a luminous exploration of sacredness embedded in the ordinary. Through practices like paying attention, finding community, embracing wilderness, and honoring Sabbath, she shows us how everyday acts—washing dishes, walking the earth, pausing in prayer—can become altars in the world. It’s a poetic, practical field guide to living with reverence and spiritual responsiveness.
📖 Scripture: Romans 12:1
“Therefore, I urge you, in view of God’s mercy, to offer your bodies as living sacrifices, holy and pleasing to God—this is your true and proper worship.”
Reflection: Romans 12:1 calls us to spiritual attentiveness—not in distant rituals, but through offering our very lives. Taylor’s book embodies this verse: showing us that everyday moments, when noticed and honored, become our worship and spiritual altar. Living fully present is holy offering—simple, real, transformative.
Author: Barbara Brown Taylor | Year: 2006
In this poetic and candid memoir, Episcopal priest and acclaimed spiritual writer Barbara Brown Taylor explores the profound choice to leave parish ministry—not as a withdrawal, but as an invitation into deeper faith. She shares how compassion fatigue, institutional tension, and a longing for authenticity led her into solitude, teaching, and renewing spiritual life in ordinary places and shared human encounters :contentReference[oaicite:5]{index=5}.
📖 Scripture: Ecclesiastes 3:1
“There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under the heavens.”
Reflection: Taylor’s memoir is a testimony to sacred transitions. Ecclesiastes reminds us that letting go can be holy and necessary. Recognizing the “season” to leave institutional roles for deeper spiritual clarity echoes Taylor’s journey and invites us into trust, humility, and renewed longing for God beyond structures.
Author: Rob Hopkins | Year: 2019
In a culture starved of possibility, Rob Hopkins dares us to reclaim our collective imagination. From What Is to What If offers a vibrant and practical vision of how communities—when rooted in creativity, courage, and connection—can build just and joyful futures. At Holy Covenant, where faith meets action, this book renews our call to dream boldly, act bravely, and shape the world with sacred hope.
Author: Brené Brown | Year: 2017
In a world pulling us toward polarization and performance, Brené Brown calls us back to something deeper: true belonging. Braving the Wilderness is an invitation to stand in sacred solitude when needed, to speak truth with love, and to show up as our whole, unarmored selves. At Holy Covenant, where community is rooted in authenticity and justice, this book reminds us that belonging is not about fitting in—it’s about daring to be seen and loved exactly as we are.
Author: Parker J. Palmer | Year: 2000
With gentle wisdom and soulful clarity, Parker Palmer invites us to listen inwardly and live authentically. Let Your Life Speak is a tender and transformative meditation on vocation—not as a job, but as the sacred intersection of inner truth and outer action. For Holy Covenant, this book resonates as a call to discernment, rooted in community, courage, and the Spirit’s quiet guidance toward wholeness.
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