Tag: Podcast

Let’s imagine a scenario together. Let’s say one afternoon you get a call from someone dear to you, one of the people you love most in this world, perhaps a spouse or a best friend. They call you, and they are frantic, “I need your help! I need you to come to the garden section […]

It has been said that you can divide people into two groups: those who watch a movie without talking or texting and those who like to think everyone else will want to comment or text while the movie going.  I am proud to say that I am in that first group, the right group, but […]

Don’t you just love Pentecost?  How many of you have Pentecost circled on your calendars?  Raise your hands if you like to… Gather around the piano and sing Pentecost carols? Bake Pentecost cookies, put up a Pentecost tree or put up a yard sign with a Pentecostal flame? Exchange cards, or gifts, or open Pentecost […]

Good morning. I’m Sophia Sciarrino, an elder who just finished serving on session and an active member of the youth group. I’m honored to have a chance to speak with you today, honestly a little nervous too. But, I guess it’s high time I get used to being nervous and trying new, exciting, and different […]

I’m  Tommy  Gilchrist,  a  senior  at  Parkland  High  School  (at least  for  the  next  two-or-so weeks).  I  just  finished  serving  a  term  on  session.  To  preface  this  sermon,  let  me  first  apologize  to my parents, because in about 5 minutes I’m going to break their hearts. Fun  fact:  my  sister  is  one  of  the  best  […]

Have you heard the one about the three animals approaching St. Peter seated on his chair at the heavenly gate?  The first animal was a Rottweiler.  St. Peter asked her what she had done to be deserving of entering heaven and the Rottweiler replied: “I was an excellent guard dog for the family who owned […]

Scriptures: Acts 8:26-40, Isaiah 53:7-9 “Look, here is water.” The observation by the unnamed Ethiopian here in Acts 8 seems like a fairly ordinary statement.  Except that it comes at an extraordinary point in this meeting between the Ethiopian and the apostle Philip – and there is not supposed to be any water nearby. Why […]

I do not know a lot about sheep. I am a suburban-bon kid after all, who has never lived on, or near, a farm. A number of years ago, right after Kerry and I finished school and before we started our first permanent jobs, we had a great opportunity to travel across England and Scotland […]