I can’t tell you how honored I am to serve God and this congregation as Senior Pastor. I think we have a bright future ahead of us! I want to start our new beginning with a sermon series I’ve titled “Key Pieces of Faith.”
In this age of truthiness and an increasingly uncomfortable relationship between politics and religion, and the truth claims politicians make in the name of religion, maybe like me you sometimes find it difficult to know what to believe.
This week, as we celebrate July 4th, Independence Day, I offer you a few thoughts and quotes to take you into the weekend. And I invite you to join me Sunday, ONLINE, for a very special eleven:eleven, downtown celebration.
During adolescence, most of us believe that our hometown is the most boring place on earth! I was that way.
As an adult, I realize that my hometown was straight out of a Norman Rockwell painting.
What is Christianity to you? What does it mean to have faith in Christ?
In a culture driven by novelty, commerce, and productivity, and measures of success in that reality, we’re not so good at keeping time. Rather time seems to have its hold on us.
We are continuing our Sanctuary worship series with a focus on the symbols of the Holy Spirit that we find in our beautiful worship space.
This Sunday our theme is “Veneration” and our scripture is from Matthew 25, the Parable of the Last Judgment. Perhaps of all the teachings of Jesus, this parable is the clearest about how we are to live and treat one another and at the same time one of the most challenging. It shows us how to venerate Jesus through the way that we live and serve.
Each apostle was a unique person with his own gifts and his own liabilities. We can learn a lot from them and be inspired by them in the way we live out our own faith.