Friday Nov112011
 Friday, November 11, 2011 at 11:34AM
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Bach-a-Thon
Professional area musicians, including faculty and students from our universities, will perform Bach's music at a unique and casual festival in our Sanctuary. Consecutive concerts will last from 8 p.m. to midnight on Friday, November 11 and 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. on Saturday, November 12.
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Hanging of
the Greens
Sunday, November 27 5 p.m. in the Sanctuary
HOTG is a special worship service to begin the season of Advent by adorning the Sanctuary with greenery and symbolic decorations. A meal will follow in Fellowship Hall with music by the Search Band!
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I Love The Search is November 6 @ 5 p.m.! RSVP..
 | | Last year we gathered to celebrate the alternative worship experience of The Search. This year, join us on November 6 at 5 p.m. when we try to have 300 people join us for worship. Join usfor an unforgettable love party and agape feast at worship as we Love The Search! |
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Suzanne Castle
It's about the poetry for me! Many of you know that I am a HUGE Ann Weems fan. I love her way of weaving liturgy, God and poetry together that makes our journey more and more thoughtful along the way. I think that poetry is one way in which we, The Search, find meaning almost every Sunday as we gather for worship. So I wanted to encourage you to pick up a great new book that encourages us about living artfully as humans--living to play, living to celebrate, living to worship. The book? Poetic Theology. The book challenges us to be truly alive. To be expressive. To invite the Sacred in our lives as an invitation to connect with the Word made flesh. It is a book that will sing in your soul as we journey towards our great I LOVE THE SEARCH event
I know I will see you on November 6th! Find time to seek the Sacred...
xoxo
Suzanne
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Rob Bell: Everything is Spiritual
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Monday Jul252011
Monday, July 25, 2011 at 11:04AM
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Coffee Chat
for College Types is every Wednesday, 10 a.m. at TCU Barnes & Noble!
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Museum Crawl
for Young Adults and College Types on August 5 from 3 to 8 p.m.
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Suzanne Castle
Extensive training. Planning. Communicating. Paying attention. Details. Dreaming. These are the beliefs of your Search leadership team. Did you know that? Each week, we endeavor with a willing heart to take calculated risks on innovative ideas. But it means nothing, if we don't have what it takes as God followers to follow through. I guess you could say that my greatest achievement each and every week is not showing up for worship. It's not preaching. And it isn't writing out a worship service that thrives on chaos. Instead it is about managing a creative climate. And that takes spiritual rest.
My hope each week is that we are a refuge from your life. But it doesn't stop there. If we are not enabling you to dream, be inspired, pay attention and communicate the Gospel story in your own life and in the lives of others, then we have not in any shape or form managed the creative climate well.
What can you do? Come to worship. Assist in a ministry area. Make small groups a priority. Pray often and deeply. Walt Disney is quoted as saying: "We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we're curious and curiosity keeps leadings us down new paths." And Jesus has been quoted to say in the Gospel of Matthew, chapter 7: "Keep on keeping on at God. Keep asking--you'll get it. Keep searching--you'll find it. Keep pushing the doors--you'll get through."
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is the destination for UCC's middle and high school youth Wednesday, July 27. Parents/family/friends are welcome, tickets are $10 each, and all will meet at 5:45 p.m. to carpool. R.S.V.P. to judith@uccftw.com or 817.926.6631 ext. 148 required by Monday, July 25.
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Monday Jun062011
Monday, June 6, 2011 at 09:36AM
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This Sunday at the Search
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Prayer Stations?
Prayer is a meaningful way we communicate. At The Search, you may have noticed that we spend a great amount of time creating encounters to help us find meaning, mattering, more from our time in worship. We have developed a team of people who regularly share ideas and create these experiences. We need all types of people: visual, text-based, creative, linear to help us create these stations. Do you want to help? Please email Suzanne and sign up to help!
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Suzanne Castle
It's summer, right? We are planning vacations, how to spend the lazy days of summer at the zoo, the museums, the pool! Well we at The Search are no different than you! We have been planning a great summer series. We are going to be exploring issues of our faith call and faith journey through the films of Harry Potter, Star Wars and Lord of the Rings. And we will are currently working on the magnificent final HARRY POTTER PARTY in July (be watching for more details.)
As you make your plans this summer, please include worship as a way to feed your soul and your journey. Make worship a habit. Come help us develop community. Find a place to serve. It starts with you. And if you aren't sure how to plug in, then email me and I'll help find something that meets your gifts! This morning in my inbox, this was waiting for me: Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could; some blunders and absurdities have crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; you shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Social Media Survey
So in the next few weeks be on the lookout for an all-important survey to help us better meet needs in our community! We are doing a social media survey as we look at changing our website, content and how we deliver news to you and keep you connected. This is really important and your feedback is necessary!
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Coincidence? We Think Not!
Were Babe Ruth and Elvis Presley twins? On the surface, that's a hard case to make. There's the age difference, 40 years. And the separate sets of parents. The keen observer will also note the dissimilarity in appearance. Women wept at the beauty of Elvis's face, while Babe's moonish mug was so nonclassically constructed, it could have stopped a clock in mid-tick.
But dig deeper into the lives and lore of America's two greatest pop-culture gods and the similarities are astonishing, beginning with the date they died, Aug. 16-Ruth in 1948 and Presley in 1977. Was there some kind of psychic-spiritual link between the two men who changed our world by swinging their hips just so? You be the judge.
...Read More
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Tuesday Mar292011
Tuesday, March 29, 2011 at 12:01PM
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This Sunday at the Search
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Suzanne Castle
Lent is here. On Wednesday we will gather to reflect around a labyrinth (see article link on here to our event). Lent is the period before Easter when we traditionally stop, and prepare with attention to our spiritual lives. The spiritual journey of Lent is never easy. One of the great themes of Lent is doubt...how vulnerable we all are with mortality, death, temptation, resistance, repentance and holiness. It is a journey of wandering, wilderness, hunger and temptation. It is a time for a spiritual detox.
Here at The Search, we will engage in thinking about the unseen and how often we choose to NOT SEE God bringing us to our knees. We will celebrate the joy of God's forgiveness and the fact that God yearns for us, searches for us, and never ever lets us go. As we do so, we will be intentional with some spiritual practices, as well. One will be the practice of name tags for each of us, EVERY SUNDAY of Lent, which begins on March 13th. We ask you to consider learning the names of those that worship alongside you, so that you can pray for them.
However, we will also have the choice of filling out a covenant card that highlights other opportunities for participation and prayer in this season. Please look for those cards on March 13th and find a way to commit to the tough journey of believing, even in times of doubt.
Searching alongside of you....
Suzanne
What I'm listening to...
Quorra: Your father was the creator.
Sam Flynn: Where do I find him?
Quorra: Make it there alive. And he'll find you.
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Doubt
Doubt creeps in when you least expect it. It is like having a scratch on the inside of your mouth. You just keep poking it with your tongue. It might go away but you keep it from getting better. Is it lack of faith? Am I missing something everyone else has? Why does this feeling persist? It feeds on you, you actually feed it and it starts to take over. Sometimes the hope to make it go away is difficult to find. Many people think it is just a type of fear. Someone told me once it was just pride. When it grips you doubt is scary. It clouds your judgment in a far more subtle way than anger or hate.
How does God meet us when we doubt? How can we look at it productively?
"We're not necessarily doubting God will do the best for us; we are wondering how painful the best will turn out to be." ~ C.S. Lewis
- Adam Fambrough
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