At the first church I served, I was offering chapel time for the preschool crowd. It was this time of year and we were talking about baptism. We read the story of Jesus’ baptism, and began to talk about our own baptisms. I had with me a baptismal bowl. As I would talk about Jesus’ baptism, I would take water in my…
Open. Grow. Serve.
Sermons on Matthew (Page 11)
Happy New Year! You may well be used to writing 2017 on your checks and notes by now, but since I was away last week fulfilling my duties for the Board of Ordained Ministry, I want to wish you Happy New Year. I wonder if you have thought about resolutions and goals for this year. Last year as I prayed about the…
This has been a challenging week for our country. Deep divides were revealed. Now, some of us had known the deep divides were already there. Others of us were genuinely flabbergasted by the vastness of our understandings and perhaps misunderstandings. On Wednesday, a group of folks gathered here at the church for communion after the…
Second Chance for Them?? When I was a little girl, we had a game called Simon. Popular in the late 1970s and early 1980s, the game would show a pattern, you were to follow the pattern. If you got it right, you were given the next pattern with an additional tone. If you got it…