Repost: While Pastor Michelle is taking a much-needed study leave, we are reposting some of her greatest hits! This has not been a particularly spectacular year for autumn. Whether it was too much rain for too long, or too much heat in to October, or something...
This Sunday we will be celebrating “World Communion Sunday.” This service is a beautiful reminder that we are part of a global community, as churches all over the world gather around the bread and the cup. Worshiping with children can almost seem like an olympic sport...
Part of living out your faith with your children is equipping them to take communion with you. On Sunday we are offering a parent/child communion class for kids and their parents. But we also pray that their instruction does not end there. We all need reminders of...
While Pastor Michelle is away on a much-deserved study break, we are reposting some of the "best of" her amazing writings. Not infrequently in my faith journey, I find that I am in need of a “traveling companion.” A couple of weeks ago I began reading...
O God, I want so to belong; teach me to accept. I want to be close; teach me to reach out. I want a place where I am welcome; teach me to open my arms. I want mercy; teach me to forgive. I want beauty; teach me honesty. I want peace; show me the eye of...
September 11, 2019 Blog Post 9/11. Where were you the morning of September 11, 2001? For many of us, there are memories and images from that day that are forever seared into our psyches. There have been other such national events: the bombing of Pearl Harbor,...
As I write this blog, Hurricane Dorian is off the coast of the southeastern United States battering the coastline with 120-mile an hour winds and dumping torrential amounts of rainfall. The pictures coming out of the Bahamas, where Dorian struck earlier this week as a...
August 29, 2019 Hardly a week goes by that I don’t hear someone bemoan the state of affairs in our public discourse. From family, friends, neighbors, and parishioners alike I hear laments of the incivility, the lack of respect, the name calling, the polarization coming from...
Within the past month, two stories have appeared in the newspaper that put the randomness of life on vivid display. In one instance, the randomness was tragic; in the other, inspirational. The two events both occurred on beaches, but the beaches were over 5000 miles apart. ...
This summer I have been preaching through the Minor Prophets. There are twelve of these Old Testament books, and they are called “minor” not because of their relative importance, but because of their length. I have thoroughly enjoyed this series and I’ve learned a lot. ...