Newsletter
This Sunday is Mother’s Day—and at Sacred Place, we honor all the women in our lives and in our community. Not just mothers. All of them. The ones who raised us, the ones who chose us, the aunties and grandmothers and mentors and friends who held us together.
Sunday, May 3 — Acts 16, communion, and what worship does in a cell.
Our Mission Sunday Brunch location has changed to Lazy Dog Restaurant (11560 Fourth Street, Rancho Cucamonga, CA 91730 near Ontario Mills). You can view their Brunch Menu here. Apparently, Kick Back Jack’s no longer does reservations on the weekends under any circumstances. Michael will be there to host y’
Hey Sacred Place Family, This Sunday is Mission Sunday, which means I have the day off—and you all get to be the church without me for a morning. I love that. I hope the brunch is everything it should be: good food, good people, and a table that feels
Hey Sacred Place Family, This Sunday is Mission Sunday—which means we’re forgoing our regular gathering format and doing something different instead. As we turn to the third pillar of our vision & mission—Family—we’re gathering for brunch at Lazy Dog at 11 AM. Sacred Place is
Happy Friday, Sacred Place— This has been a week. I keep coming back to our text for this week and there’s something I just can’t shake. Rachel Held Evans wrote something thirteen years ago about standing in the hurricane of questions and staring each one down—and it
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Hey Sacred Place Family, The holiest days of the Christian year begin tonight. Maundy Thursday, Good Friday, Easter Sunday—three gatherings, three texts, one arc. We have been inside John’s Gospel since September, and this weekend is where everything we’ve been imagining together arrives at its fullest expression.
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Hey Sacred Place Family, The same crowd that shouted hosanna on Sunday is standing at the cross by Friday. This week we hold both moments at once—the branches and the nails, the parade and the sign, the hope and the cost. Palm/Passion Sunday is not a celebration interrupted
Hey Sacred Place Family, We are deep in Lent now—five weeks in—and the text has brought us to a courtroom. Tomorrow, on the Fifth Sunday in Lent, we sit with John 19:1–16a: Jesus before Pilate, a crown of thorns, a purple robe, and a crowd that
Good morning Sacred Place Family, We are spending the heart of this Lenten series inside a single night in the Gospel of John—the long hours between the upper room and the cross. This morning the story moves us from the courtyard, where Peter stood warming himself at the wrong
Hey Sacred Place Family, We are three weeks into Lent, and the story is getting harder to look away from. This Sunday we sit with Peter—warming himself by a fire while Jesus is led away—and we ask ourselves the question the text quietly insists on: Who are we
Ten days before Christmas, many of us are already tired. The lists are long. The calendar is full. The world feels loud, and the pressure to feel merry can be its own kind of weight. This Sunday, December 21 at 11:00 a.m., our final Advent gathering offers something