Category: Devotions

Pastor’s Email Devotion – Mary Ann Frontz, Guest Devotioneer Devotion for Sunday, August 23, 2015 Last Sunday “Why are you so afraid?” was the question in the sermon series Questions God Can’t Answer. Hearing Vicar Karen’s story in her sermon of their family pulling the camper up and down Beartooth Mountain with her husband at…

Pastor’s Email Devotion The Week of Pentecost 12 August 16, 2015 He saved us, not because of any works of righteousness that we had done, but according to his mercy, through the water of rebirth and renewal by the Holy Spirit. (Titus 3:5, NRSV) I had the privilege this past week of visiting with woman…

Pastor’s Email Devotion The Week of Pentecost 11 August 9, 2015 So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen, since what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal.  (2 Corinthians 4:18, NRSV) Many of you know I am a creature of routine … especially on…

Pastor’s Email Devotion – Neil Snyder, Guest Devotioneer The Week of Pentecost 10 August 2, 2015 Church Thoughts It seems fair to say that the emergent church discussion out there sincerely tries a to look at church and secular history, draw some reasonable patterns, blend that into what they see happening currently in the western…

Pastor’s Email Devotion – Sister Dottie, Guest Devotioneer The Week of Pentecost 9 July 26, 2015 SCRIPTURE — So then you are no longer strangers and aliens, but you are fellow citizens with the saints, and are of God’s household, having been built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Christ Jesus Himself being…

Pastor’s Email Devotion The Week of Pentecost 8 July 19, 2015 Keep alert, stand firm in your faith, be courageous, be strong. (1 Corinthians 16:13, NRSV) “Toddler Spirituality” So we had our little toad over to Dutch Wonderland on Saturday. Had a great day. It reminded us of our trips there with his mother and…

Pastor’s Email Devotion — Guest Devotioneer, Carol Esbenshade The Week of Pentecost 7 July 5, 2015 Remember Charlie Brown, who back in the 1960’s, famously said “happiness is a warm puppy”? For those in dire need, around the world, happiness can be something as basic as a nutritious meal or a clean, safe place to…

Pastor’s Email Devotion — Guest Devotioneer, Cindy Stauffer The Week of Pentecost 6 July 5, 2015 In the Library by Charles Simic There’s a book called A Dictionary of Angels. No one had opened it in fifty years, I know, because when I did, The covers creaked, the pages Crumbled. There I discovered The angels…

Pastor’s Email Devotion The Week of Pentecost 5 June 28, 2015 For this reason I bow my knees before the Father. (Ephesians 3.14, NRSV) Emilie Griffin in her book Clinging: The Experience of Prayer, says this … “there is a moment between intending to pray and actually praying that is as dark and silent as…

Pastor’s Email Devotion The Week of Pentecost 2 – June 7, 2015 What then are we to say? Should we continue in sin in order that grace may abound?  (Romans 6:1, NRSV) It’s called ablution. That’s the churchy word for it. It is a religious word for “washing.” Prior to every celebration of Holy Communion, worship…