This Lent, we have been listening to Jesus’ call in the Sermon on Mount to take on love, God’s love with prayers for our hands and actions for our feet. Last week, we began our journey on Ash Wednesday as we asked the question – Does Jesus love me, even me? YES! Then we looked…
This Wednesday, many gathered for Ash Wednesday to begin this season of Lent. With 59 in worship between the noon and 7pm services, I was moved. Moved by the ashen mark of God’s love of foreheads. Moved by familiar faces and neighbor faces we are learning. Moved by those who brought their confessions to the cross to be shredded and then embrace…
I have become quite fond of a television/ book character by the name of a Father Brown. He is an unassuming Roman Catholic priest in the 1950s from a small British town who loves the people of his parish and has a healthy dose of suspicion when it comes to solving crime. In a Post-World War II world, he is not a…
Over the past few weeks we have been reflecting on spiritual gifts-What they are, who they come from and how they impact the body of Christ. Last week Pastor Monica shared from 1 Corinthians that our differing spiritual gifts are to be celebrated, because different gifts are needed to Continue the building of God’s Kingdom. Today I want elaborate on this call-…
Have you ever gone on a road trip? On this long weekend, in the middle of winter, with hints of 60-degree weather, a road trip sound nice right about now. A change of scenery, a switch from the routine, a bit of adventure. For my first big road trip, my dad laid out road atlases across the kitchen table and marked our…
Did you know: The human body is miraculously complex,With 60 million cells,With 36 million heart beats every year,With 300 billion red cells produced every day,With 60,000 miles of blood vessels in each body.And in order to make this marvelous body you and I are inhabiting continue to function, we need to different parts to work together! From the pinky toe to the…
Greatest Joy!A priest, an evangelist, and a minister were in a row boat in the middle of a pond fishing. None of them had caught anything all morning. Then the evangelist stands up and says he needs to go to the bathroom, so he climbs out of the boat and walks on the water to shore. He comes back ten minutes later…
In our last home, we had a compost bin. At the farthest edge of our yard, we would fill it with cut-up leaves after mowing the lawn, grass clippings, and carrot shavings, peelings from apples, as well as other vegetable and fruit peelings. Then we would turn it over and over and over again. We would regularly check in on the progress…
Where are we headed next? We have some travelers in this congregation! Worldwide travelers, Florida travelers, shore travelers, RV travelers, and armchair travelers! What a delight it is to hear your travel stories! Pictures and stories from far-flung locales and day excursions exploring a new or beloved place. For those of us who drive our journeys, we may count down the miles.…