Nehemiah: Renewing Our Commitment
Text: Nehemiah 8:5-10; 9:1-3, 38; 10:28-29 Last week, we talked about some of the opposition that the builders and Nehemiah faced while building the wall. …
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This is Love: For Future Generations
Text: Leviticus 26 and Matthew 6: 25-33 It isn’t often that we turn to the book of Leviticus for the primary reading for our reflection….
Ashes and Prayers
A colleague, Elizabeth Dilley, shared the story of imposing ashes on the foreheads of children. As she made the sign of the cross on one…
Answer!
In October, my facebook feed and our news stories were filled with two little words: #metoo Sisters from all sorts of walks of life started…
Eve Meets Mary
Lately, as I’ve made my way home from work here at the church, I can see the stars in the sky. And it’s not because…
The Spirit of Goodness
We’ve heard of goody-two-shoes… Good riddance… Goodness gracious great balls of fire… Goodbye… Things can taste good, we like to read good books and tell…
We Have Found the Messiah
“I am not the Messiah” That’s probably pretty obvious to all of you. Of course, I’m not the Messiah. But I wasn’t talking about me….
Practicing Our Religion in Public
By some accounts, yesterday morning I did exactly the opposite of what Jesus tells us in Matthew. Some of us gathered at a local coffee…