Dear Friends in Christ, How have you connected to the church in the past year? Maybe you have enjoyed a return to in-person worship (albeit with a little frustration that we had to redon masks at the end of the summer). Maybe you have watched worship faithfully for the past year and half, [...]
What Does It Mean to Follow God? Psalm 146 Finding Our Hope in the Lord Do not put your trust in princes, in mortals, in whom there is no help. When their breath departs, they return to the earth; on that very day their plans perish. Happy are those whose help is the [...]
The followers of Christ have been called to peace....And they must not only have peace but make it. And to that end they renounce all violence and tumult. In the cause of Christ nothing is to be gained by such methods .... His disciples keep the peace by choosing to endure suffering themselves rather [...]
The Greatness of God Isaiah 53:4–12 Bearing Together Surely he has borne our infirmities and carried our diseases; . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . and by his bruises we are healed. Isaiah 53:4–5b This past year, as a [...]
PEACE PEACE has come to mean the time when there aren't any wars or even when there aren't any major wars. Beggars can't be choosers; we'd most of us settle for that. But in Hebrew peace, shalom, means fullness, means having everything you need to be wholly and happily yourself. One of the titles by [...]
