NOTE FROM PASTOR J R FOR SUNDAY DECEMBER 27, 2015
For many folks, by this Sunday Christmas is over! For them the decorations have started to come down and they are solely focused on the […]
For many folks, by this Sunday Christmas is over! For them the decorations have started to come down and they are solely focused on the […]
This Sunday is the Fourth Sunday of Advent and the theme is Love. Most of us think of love as a feeling; but love is […]
This Sunday is the Third Sunday of Advent and the theme is Joy. Liturgically this Sunday is called “Gaudete Sunday.” Gaudete is the Latin word […]
The First Sunday in Advent, when the theme was HOPE, began with apocalyptic images that are as non-Christmasy as can be imagined. Now in the […]
This Sunday is the First Sunday in Advent and the theme is Hope. The assigned lectionary scriptures for this Sunday from Jeremiah and Luke offers […]
You can’t turn on the TV and not see what seems to be continuous coverage of the terrorist attacks in Paris. In response, we have […]
The lectionary Epistle text assigned for this Sunday is instructing us concerning “worshipping together” in a context that goes beyond what we commonly think of […]
Last week the assigned gospel text was a very familiar story; Jesus raising Lazarus from the dead. In the sermon I talked about how we […]
This Sunday is All Saints Day. We will take a moment to remember those who have impacted our lives significantly, who are now dead but […]
This week the assigned lectionary Gospel reading contains the story of the healing of the blind man, Bartimaeus. It’s a story recorded in Mark’s Gospel […]