Au revoir, Epiphany Star. In a less than twenty-four hours, your light will depart from us as we usher in the season of Lent with Ash Wednesday services. We will let you go … but not without some kicking and screaming in the form of our Palm Burning efforts tomorrow night, Shrove Tuesday. For shortly…
New Day Sermonepiphany 5 Jesus calls us salt. How can you use your salt to liven your world?
Our thanks to Brendan Armitage for offering this week’s devotion. (In case you are wondering, the darkest Night Service he refers to will be held on Sunday night,m December 22 at 6PM in our sanctuary.) “But this shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel; After those days, saith the LORD, I will put my law in…
The Advent-Christmas season is characterized by stories, and so this morning I offer you a story written by Mary Quattelbaum entitled The Shine Man, and illustrated by Tim Ladwig … and some sermonic commentary. Hear that rickety-rack of wheels over track? Hear the cry of the train? Oh, it takes me back to a tale…
Then God said, ‘Let there be light’; and there was light. And God saw that the light was good; and God separated the light from the darkness. (Genesis 1:3-4, NRSV) I’ve been following the ritual since the summer of 1981. Forty-eight Sunday mornings a year, give-or-take one or two, I am walking through the hallways of…
