Portland Minister

11/13/2025

The U.S. is rapidly becoming more secular.

10/27/2024

Besides all the devils and demons showing up for Halloween, we're hearing the word EVIL showing up in news reports and talking heads.

Our politics have been woven into a holy war with terms like ANTICHRIST and SATAN and the END TIMES.

This isn't humanity's first brush with the DEVIL and ARMAGEDON. Mankind has been on this precipice before.

Is there a Satan behind this? Does evil exist like an entity? Or is it more like a virus of hate or a harbinger of doom? Let's peer into the darkness and see what we believe...

Join us Sunday morning at 10 am. Click into this url:
https://meet.google.com/poq-pkeq-jbd

And for you edification, bone up with this...
https://www.worldhistory.org/article/1685/the-origin-of-satan/

10/13/2024

Church of the Moment is largely irreligious. We explore all kinds of texts and rituals from all spiritual communities in the world. For example, we will celebrate Dia de los Mu***os along with All Souls and Halloween on the last Sunday of October.

I picked up a deck of tarot cards based on word spells from the magickal writer Lucy Cavendish, in whose books I've found ritual and sacred words of manifesting. I found myself asking what the difference is between prayer and spells. As I read the spells in the deck they seemed much like prayer.

I'll share some of these and also some reflections on prayer and spells, hoping we can hear from you how you see or use the two forms of manifestation, of seeking help or favor or forgiveness.

Yeah, I guess it's a little weird, but that's never stopped us...

Join us Sunday morning at 10 am. Just click into this url:
https://meet.google.com/poq-pkeq-jbd

10/02/2024

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03/30/2024

Good Friday--the perfect day for my "Thieves at the Cross."
Music, Lyric, and all instruments ~Mike Ashland
http://mikeashland.com/MikeJukeBox_files/Thieves.mp3

What holds me now to my cross?
What part of me feels lost?
One thief dies mocking a King.
One finds some faith and believes.

What did I do to get nailed?
Where have I fallen and failed?
One thief denies any blame.
One goes to Jesus in shame.

Chorus
Which will I be?
And at what heavenly cost?
We're all really thieves at the cross.
We're all really thieves at the cross.

Help me climb down from this place.
Unbind my hands with your grace.
One kept his soul in the dark.
One offered Jesus his heart.

I've made my own lonely hell.
Ran too fast, then I fell.
One couldn't hear our Lord's cries.
One heard and met paradise.

Chorus

Remember me, Lord, when you come,
Into your Father's kingdom.
I promise you before this day
Is done you'll be with me to stay.

Chorus

08/02/2020

Liminal moments in social distancing...re-training ourselves to savor the moments when other people may not be threats, but instead offer us glimpses of poignance and joy.
10 am this morning.
https://msngr.com/98r9wyvO_S25GxiY

03/06/2017

Megan an Joey at the Nines...

06/14/2016

11/09/2015