Tag: Community

  • CHildren of God … One and All

    New Day Sermon Fourth Sunday of Easter Do you struggle with all the division and fighting in the world?  Come listen to the Good Shepherd, and his word hope about all ofhis children.

  • Your Wilderness

    Your Wilderness

    And the Spirit immediately drove Jesus out into the wilderness. Mark 1:12 In Biblical terms…the wilderness is usually not a place we want to go to. Going back to the Old Testament the people of God are in the wilderness for 40 years…and it wasn’t because Moses refused to stop and ask for directions. It…

  • The Blessing of Spiders

    The Blessing of Spiders

    EMAIL DEVOTIONAL Pentecost 16 All the paths of the Lord are steadfast love and faithfulness, for those who keep his covenant and his decrees.            (Psalm 25:10) The Spider‘s Web The spider dropping down from a twig Unfolds a plan of her devising A thin premeditated rig To use in rising.…

  • September 3, 2017 Traditional Sermon

    Are you a stumbling block or a stepping stone?  Jesus and Peter give us advice on what it means to follow Jesus. This morning we are going to play a game. I am going to give you a scenario and you are going to tell me if it is a Stumbling Block or a stepping…

  • Vitality

    Email Devotion  pentecost 18 Peace be to the whole community, and love with faith, from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.  (Ephesians 6:23) As I looked around, I knew that I was looking at a picture of health.  Not in the way we often think of it, as visions of healthy clear veins, a…

  • Can You Hear Me Now?

    Traditional Sermon, Pentecost 9 Shema Israel Adonai Eloheinu, Adonai echad… “Hear O’ Israel, the Lord is our God; the Lord is one.” This is the first line of the prayer known as the Shema, that Pastor Pretz mentioned in his sermon last week.  The Shema is recited or chanted twice daily (morning & night) by…