Author: Jenny Cudahy

25 Oct Advent Workshop & Hanging of the Greens

Our Second Annual Advent Workshop On Sunday, December 2, 2018 we will host a "Hanging of the Greens and All-Church Advent Workshop" following worship. Join us for this special event as we enjoy the sights, sounds and smells of Christmas throughout the building!  Stations for making...

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25 Oct Upcoming Worship Themes

Worship Themes for November and December November Worship Themes November 4 All Saints Sunday, Sermon:  Stone Testaments   November 11 Stewardship Sunday, Sermon:  Why Do We Exist? November 18 New Members will be received November 25 Christ the King Sunday Advent Sermon Theme:  What Time Is It?   December 2 First...

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25 Oct Overcoming Giants, Living the Promise

Overcoming Giants, Living the Promise Numbers 13:1-3, 17-33 October 21, 2018 Michelle Fincher Calvary Presbyterian Church Every once in a while, it is good to take stock of one’s life—to think about where we are, how we got here, where we’ve come from and where we’re going.  Some people do...

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18 Oct Random Acts of Kindness

Last week I was RAK’D, and it made quite an impression on me.  Not familiar with being a RAK recipient?  Let me explain…. Last month my family did a three-way car swap.  As part of the intra-family horse-trading, my mother and brother drove a vehicle from...

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16 Oct The Children Show us the Way

Calvary Presbyterian Church, October 7, 2018 Gene Kendall, Jr I remember it like it was yesterday, the visual and emotional memories were burned into my amygdala.  On Thanksgiving morning, 43 years ago, with my 4 other siblings home from college for the holiday, my mother told us...

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13 Oct A Profound Promise

Have you ever been overwhelmed by a task before you?  Have you ever felt certain you lacked the skills to do the job you’ve been given?  Have you ever left a role you felt capable of for an unknown and uncomfortable future?  Have you ever...

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13 Oct Be the Kingdom Sunday

Tomorrow we will live out our faith by worshiping through serving our community.  Twice a year, Calvary gathers at our normal time and place, Sunday, 10:00 a.m., for “Be the Kingdom Sunday.”  We show up in jeans and tennis shoes, wearing Presbyterian-blue Calvary t-shirts. After...

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26 Sep Mental Health and Wholeness for All

No matter how or when it happens, the news of someone taking his or her own life is shocking and horrifying.  As a society, we have made important strides in mental health education and treatment, but suicide remains greatly stigmatized and misunderstood.  The recent deaths...

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25 Sep Lessons from the Vineyard

Lessons from the Vineyard John 15:1-8 September 23, 2018 M. Michelle Fincher Calvary Presbyterian Church When it comes to wine, even most novices know that the French have a long history of vintage winemaking and have provided the names for some of the world’s best-known varieties of vino. Champagne, Bordeaux,...

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19 Sep A Testament to God’s Faithfulness

It is finally here.  After two and a half years of praying, planning, raising money, moving and washing pipes, pursuing county permits, enduring the noise and inevitable mess of renovations and converting the balcony to a pipe chamber, and overcoming numerous obstacles and setbacks, this...

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