As part of preparing to build our current building, we ran a 3 year capital campaign to raise funds. During that campaign I was part of a team that sent monthly letters to the congregation to report progress and encourage … Continue reading →
I am admittedly a Christian music junkie. I’ve been ready to play Christian Christmas CD’s in my car since mid-October. One of my favorites that I belt out unabashedly off-key while driving (alone) is “Let There Be Light” from Point … Continue reading →
Luke 2:1-5 In those days Caesar Augustus declared that everyone throughout the empire should be enrolled in the tax lists. 2 This first enrollment occurred when Quirinius governed Syria. 3 Everyone went to their own cities to be enrolled. 4 Since Joseph belonged … Continue reading →
Revelation 19:11-16 Christ defeats the beast 11 Then I saw heaven opened, and there was a white horse. Its rider was called Faithful and True, and he judges and makes war justly. 12 His eyes were like a fiery flame, … Continue reading →
Advent Wreath Candle Lighting Third Week of Advent, December 13, 2020 Isaiah 61:1-4, 8-11 & John 1:6-8, 19-28 Reader One: We want everything to look nice: the decorations of the season, our homes with their lights and tinsel, wreaths and … Continue reading →
Isaiah 9:6-7 A child is born to us, a son is given to us, and authority will be on his shoulders. He will be named Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Eternal Father, Prince of Peace. 7 There will be vast authority and … Continue reading →
Mary Pondering Luke 1:46-55 But in the days to come, the mountain of the Lord’s house will be the highest of the mountains; it will be lifted above the hills; peoples will stream to it. 2 Many nations will go … Continue reading →
Let the stable still astonish: Straw-dirt floor, dull eyes, Dusty flanks of donkeys, oxen; Crumbling, crooked walls; No bed to carry that pain, And then, the child, Rag-wrapped, laid to cry In a trough. Who would have chosen this? Who … Continue reading →
Advent December 2020 Prelude to conversation… We are waiting aren’t we? We are longing for, urgently expecting and impatiently waiting for the end of COVID. This is not the first time that people have been longing for the end of … Continue reading →
Matthew 1:23 The virgin will conceive and give birth to a Son, and they will call him Immanuel (which means “God with us.”) We love to sing O Come, O Come, Immanuel as we prepare our hearts to celebrate … Continue reading →
