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.”
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.
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.
This Sunday, let’s look at resurrection, not as resuscitation, but as participation — cultivating empathy and action for the transformation of the world.
This week we’re beginning a new worship series entitled Sanctuary. Sanctuary — the word brings to mind a place of refuge or safety. We even use the word for nature reserves, which are safe places for animals.
This Sunday is the last Sunday before we enter the season of Lent. It is known as Transfiguration Sunday — the Sunday in which we remember the experience of Jesus and three of his disciples on a mountaintop in Galilee.