It is good to be back in worship with you all after a couple of weekends away. I was only actually out of town for one week, but at this time last week, I was still snoozing a bit since we didn’t get home from the Honduras medical mission trip until about midnight the night […]
I was on the phone with one of my grandmas the other day, and throughout the whole conversation, my grandma would return to a phrase as if it was her mantra. She would start talking about something happening in her town, or something happening across the country, and then she would stop herself and say, […]
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It wouldn’t have been right for Mary and Mary Magdalene to go to the tomb any earlier than first thing on Sunday morning. They couldn’t travel, especially not to a place where the dead are buried, on the Sabbath. But as soon as there was light on the next day, they made their way to […]
Nine years ago I was ordained on a Palm Sunday. It has become a fun and beautiful tradition to share that with you, or remind you of it, every Palm Sunday, so thank you for playing along and letting me celebrate a special day in my life with all of you. Ha. But I also […]
As we jump into this story from the gospel according to John, I have to start first with a little bit of nerdy Bible history. And this time (because we know I do love some nerdy Bible history) it’s a little less about the history in the Bible and more about the history of the […]
One of the popular service projects my college campus ministry group participated in was Saturday morning gleaning. Gleaning – with a G, not cleaning with a C. I’m not sure I know any college students excited about cleaning on a Saturday morning. But when we organized gleaning trips, we could always get a good crowd. […]
Last week Pastor Stephanie said something in her sermon that I can’t get out of my head. And I will say that sermon was incredibly timely and relevant, and if you haven’t listened to it, you should. But the thing I can’t get out of my head, and definitely not the main takeaway of last […]
A few years ago, I had the opportunity to spend a few hours to spend at the Presbyterian Historical Society, a small museum or library that on the one hand provides very practical services as the repository for all of the denomination’s official documents and archives. And on the other it’s general collections of archival […]
The story of Jesus turning water into wine at a wedding Cana is traditionally talked about as Jesus’ first miracle. That word “traditionally” is really the key to that sentence, because of course we don’t really know. It is the first action of Jesus that we usually think of as a miracle in John’s gospel, […]
Tonight, as we step into the season of Lent, I’m encouraging us to try something new this year. There’s some truth that we as people – not just here at First Presbyterian – but we the people have experienced loss. I don’t know it’s the healthy thing this Lent to go into the season with […]
