NEW WORSHIP SERIES September 13, 2020: Join us in September as we reimagine together what it means to be the “Church” during this bewildering season. We hope you will “tune in” for worship at 10:00 a.m. via YouTube, and then join us for Sermon Talk Back...
Good News Anyone? Mark 16:1-8 April 12, 2020, Easter SundayMichelle Fincher Calvary Presbyterian Church Easter Sunday Adult Worship Guide Click here to watch the Easter service from this morning and click here for music to accompany your worship. News update…Headlines….533,000 cases; 20,580 deaths In our new reality of a virus-infected world, has...
This month at Calvary I have been doing a series of Advent sermons entitled Songs of the Season. Each Sunday we’ve been reading and reflecting on the initial reactions of some of the major characters in the story of Jesus’ birth. For example, Zechariah the...
November 28, 2019 This week our nation pauses to celebrate our many blessings, but as with everything else about our country, no two people or families will celebrate Thanksgiving in exactly the same way. What are your particular traditions? Are you a stickler for dressing or...
One of my favorite things about the holidays is the traditions that we carry forward from one year to the next. For example, in my family, there is the tradition—not to be messed with—that the first music we listen to as we put up decorations...
The Pentecost story often interests children, but can be difficult for them to follow as presented in Acts 2. The opening events of verses 1-4 (especially in the NRSV) catch children's attention. But the long list of unfamiliar ethnic groups (vss. 8-11) can distract them...
Click below for the Sermon from Easter Sunday [audio mp3="https://calvarypres.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Easter-2019-sermon.mp3"][/audio]...
was recently introduced to a new “app”. It’s called “WeCroak” (wecroak.com). It’s not about bullfrogs. It’s about mortality and death. It’s based on a Bhutanese folk saying that to be a happy person, you need to contemplate death five times a day. And so, five...
In his book If You Want to Walk on Water, You’ve Got to Get Out of the Boat, Presbyterian pastor and author John Ortberg tells the story of a special set of dishes that was given to his mother. The dishes originally belonged to John’s...
If you know me at all , you’ve heard me say that the model of leaving the faith development of children completely up to the church is flawed and out of date. It's flawed for many reasons, but the most glaring one is because we only...