Category: Devotions

Pastor’s Email Devotion — Guest Devotioneer, Tamara Boyhont The Week following Holy Trinity Sunday May 31, 2015 Editor’s Note – My thanks to Tamara for sending along the devotion below, this morning for our reflection and use this week. Bless you for jumping in, Tamara! ~~PR “ The boys on the beach”, sounds like a…

Pastor’s Email Devotion — Guest Devotioneer, Ginny Gerhart The Week of Easter 6 May 10, 2015 Ever since I’ve been involved with the Gerhart Family, the entire extended family gets together for Thanksgiving. First in an Aunt & Uncle’s basement and as we ‘out grew’ their home, we go to a local restaurant. ‘Small’ years…

Pastor’s Email Devotion The Week of Easter 5 — May 3, 2015 I have baptized you with water; but he will baptize you with the Holy Spirit.’.” (Mark 1:8, NRSV) I bought it twenty-five years ago … then sold it or gave it away or threw it away ten years after that … and now…

Hello there! Today at church I had the privilege to meet one of St. Peter’s college students. Lindsey had the privilege of being done with her first year of school. All of you who are still hard at work finishing up your semester, don’t get TOO jealous of her! You are on the final stretch…

Hello friends, As I sit down to write this devotion, I can hear the sound of our lawn mower outside my living room windows. Taking a peek I see Erik laboring hard on the lawn. It’s a perfect day to mow. It isn’t raining, it isn’t windy, it is sunny…but not too hot. Perfect. We…

Pastor’s Email Devotion The Week of Easter 3 April 19, 2015 Are any among you suffering? They should pray. Are any cheerful? They should sing songs of praise. 14Are any among you sick? They should call for the elders of the church and have them pray over them, anointing them with oil in the name…

Pastor’s Email Devotion The Week of Easter 2 April 12, 2015 As you go, proclaim the good news, “The kingdom of heaven has come near.” (Matthew 10:7, NRSV) As I was leaving church yesterday following the wedding over which I officiated, I was struck by this small patch of snow clinging to our parking lot.…

Pastor’s Email Devotion Easter Sunday Week April 5, 2015 “But on the first day of the week, at early dawn, they came to the tomb, taking the spices that they had prepared.” (Luke 24:1, NRSV) I was at church a little earlier this morning, since first service started earlier. It was still dark in the…

Pastor’s Email Devotion The Sunday of Holy Week March 29, 2015 “But you, beloved, are not in darkness, for that day to surprise you like a thief; for you are all children of light and children of the day; we are not of the night or of darkness.” (1 Thessalonians 5:4-5, NRSV) As a matter…

Pastor’s Email Devotion The Week of Lent 4 March 15, 2015 Stay awake and pray that you may not come into the time of trial;* the spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.’ (Matthew 26:41, NRSV) The number is familiar … 666. You may have seen it on little Damien’s head in the…