Music

Jazz Sunday is February 22 - mark your calendars for this special worship service.

January Featured Artist

The featured artist for January is Dan Groenewald. Dan is a local painter who works work plein-air in watercolor. He loves watercolor for its shimmering, translucent qualities. Sometimes it is watery and almost devoid of tone and other times it is thick and buttery, nearly opaque. It is these qualities he tries to make use of in his efforts to create light and texture. His paintings are about rural Colorado - glimpses of old barns, reservoirs and canals or glistening hillsides set against dark storm clouds. These are the quiet places he feels himself drawn to. His paintings have been called quiet. Quiet without the feeling of lonliness. It is a description he finds himself fond of.

Each month a different artist is featured in the Lounge fellowship area by the Sanctuary. If you are interested in learning more about the art program contact Kathy Reilly at 303-776-9243.

News from Our Church Library

Check out the selection of Christmas books available in the library for both children and adults. Make this busy time of year centered on a deeper understanding of the joy of the season and its meaning for our lives - and how it can be a starting point for a more abundant life in the new year.

New titles include: Grace (Eventually): Thoughts on Faith by Anne Lamott - a poignant, funny, and bittersweet primer in faith, as we are helped to discover what it means to be fully human and alive. Maya Angelou's Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now shares her thoughts about spirituality and how it can shape your life and about living well and living good. In Acedia & me: a Marriage, Monks, and a Writer's Life, Kathleen Norris demystifies the forgotten but utterly relevant concept of "acedia." Often understood as spiritual sloth, Norris writes of her battles with its cousin depression and exposes the damage done not only to individual lives but also to our desensitized culture. Pulitzer winner Marilynne Robinson's Home is a moving and healing book about families, love and death, and faith.