My command is this: Love each other as I have loved you. … This is My command: Love each other.” (John 15:12 & 17, NIV) […]

I loved growing up in the Holiness Church where a typical Sunday worship service would last as long at 2-3 hours. I also loved the […]

Liturgically, this week’s Fourth Sunday of Easter is also known as Good Shepherd Sunday. This is reflected in the assigned scriptures for this week, Psalm […]

I love the Epistle text assigned for this Sunday. It affirms for us “The Greatness of God’s Love” with emphasis! As preachers have been known […]

The Sunday after Easter is called Low Sunday. While Easter Sunday records the largest church attendance of any Sunday of the year, Low Sunday usually […]

This Sunday is Easter. Around the world it will be singularly the largest day of church attendance for the entire year. Many will come to […]

This week’s Note from Pastor J R includes the March 26 edition of “Liberating Word” written by a long-time friend of mine, Rev. Michael Piazza, […]

This Sunday is the Fifth Sunday IN Lent and the first Sunday of Spring! This past week I worked for the first time in my […]

I occasionally get invitations in the mail to various events.  I’m always fascinated by the ones that request an RSVP but then add the phrase […]

This past week we were once again faced with a state Supreme Court decision that makes Alabama look like a backward bastion of narrow-mindedness as […]