Extravagant Love

                 March 17, 2024 Link to Service Our Gospel from John this morning recounts an important conversation that Jesus has with Nicodemus, a religious leader who seeks Jesus out after dark so that he might privately ask some questions that will help him better understand Jesus and what […]

Reflections for March 3, 2024

Link to Service I’m sorry to share that Vassie Fowler, the Exec Director of Seeds, is unable to join us this morning; she needed to cancel at the last minute, but we hope that she may join us in the coming weeks.  I’d like to offer some brief reflections on the Gospel story this morning.  […]

again & again, we are called to listen

link to service  Mark 8:31-9:8⁴  |  Psalm 22:23-31    The season of Lent invites us to pause, to seek deeper meaning in our lives, to disconnect from the great distractions of our lives, if even for a period of time each day, and to listen.  Learning comes to us throughout our lives.  We often need […]

Again & Again, God Meets Us

Link to Service scriptures  Mark 1:9-15  |  Genesis 9:8-17 8 Then God said to Noah and to his sons with him, 9 “As for me, I am establishing my covenant with you and your descendants after you 10 and with every living creature that is with you, the birds, the domestic animals, and every animal […]

We Believe in the Power of Love

Link to Service Well, we are almost at Valentine’s Day again and, perhaps ironically, this year it falls on Ash Wednesday which marks the beginning of Lent.  As much as it has become yet another commercial holiday in our country, it is a time when we are invited to share our love with those we […]

Healing and Hope

Link to Service Most mornings, I begin my day with prayer and reading a number of wonderful spiritual writers.  Recently, I read this reflections by Rev. Molly Baskette which was the Daily Devotional for that day. She shared, “Sometime in the second half of 2024, the drug known as Ecstasy or MDMA will become legal […]

Women of the Dream

Link to Service Last Monday, we observed the Martin Luther King, Jr holiday which was marked by gatherings, prayer and readings of his famous speech across our nation.  Martin Luther King would have turned 95 on January 15th.  Last summer was the 60th anniversary of the March on Washington when he delivered the beautiful I […]

 Reflections on Christmas Eve

We Are Part of This Sacred Story Link to Service It is such a joy to gather on this Holy evening to celebrate the birth of the newborn baby, Jesus, Emmanuel, Our God is with us.  Tonight, our beautiful story is told again…a story as old as time… as the song goes. A child is […]

Reflections on Hope

Link to Service “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of light, it was the season of darkness, it was the spring […]

We Are Tired of War!

Link to Service In this morning’s reading from Paul’s Letter to the Romans, we hear an extended description of what it means to be a follower of Christ.  He writes, “If it is possible, so far as it depends on you, live peaceably with all.” As we watch the ongoing suffering in Ukraine and in […]