Last week after worship, fourteen volunteers ripped out the original sanctuary carpet, which served us well for 60 years, to get ready for the new carpet. It’s strange being in…
“Never criticize a person until you’ve walked a mile in their moccasins.” Have you ever heard that proverb? It’s not in the Bible, although it sounds a lot like some…
Our key verse for today may seem a little obscure. “But Peter, standing with the eleven, raised his voice and addressed the crowd.” (Acts 2:14a) On that surface, that might…
If you like a Sunday where there’s more than one thing going on, today is your kind of day! It’s Ascension Sunday, when we remember how after the resurrection, Jesus…
Matthew 6:24-34 The Message translation 24 “You can’t worship two gods at once. Loving one god, you’ll end up hating the other. Adoration of one feeds contempt for the other.…
I did something this week I’ve been meaning to do for a while: I made toilet tank filler bottles so every time we flush one of the parsonage toilets, we…
August 6th…98 days from today…Saturday, August 6th…maybe about 5pm….I can feel it, I can see it, I can smell it now…August 6th, the beginning of my week-long beach vacation! The…
In the beginning…that’s how it all starts. Always reminds me of the song “let’s start at the very beginning, a very good place to start…” A great place to start…
Last Sunday night I mentioned to my daughter and son-in-law that I needed to write my Easter sermon, and how I always find it hard. They were surprised and said,…
At my first church, one of the members had a saying that rang true for me as soon as I heard it. “Remember,” she would say, “it’s a legal system,…