How would you proclaim your faith? On October 18th we had a special treat. The sermon was led by 3 FPCA members as part of an overarching sermon entitled “Proclaiming Our Faith”. We encourage you take the time to listen and/our watch. 8.45 am Service: 11.00 am Service: Scripture Watch the Livestream
“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times,” Charles Dickens begins his novel, A Tale of Two Cities. That might be an appropriate title for the 24th-27th chapters of Isaiah. These chapters are the tale of two cities that aren’t necessarily named, but that represent the people with whom God made […]
On September 11, 2001; thirty-eight airplanes landed in Gander, Newfoundland, a Canadian town of about ten thousand people. This is because U.S. airspace had closed because of the terrorist attacks that happened that day. Nearly seven thousand travelers ended up stranded in Gander, almost doubling the size of their town. Immediately a local television ad […]
Churches spend a great deal of time asking how they will raise faithful children. Ours too. We ask what they need to learn, which stories they need to know, and what will help them carry faith into the rest of their lives. These are important questions. But in today’s passage, Jesus turns the idea of […]
The Brothers Grimm told a story about a merchant who had done good business at the fair; he had sold his wares, and filled his bag with gold and silver. Then he set out at once on his journey home, because he wanted to be in his own house to be ready for the next […]
Twenty-five years ago, the summer before my final year of seminary, I took part in travel study seminar to the Middle East led by biblical archaeologists. For three and a half weeks we traveled throughout Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, Egypt, Israel, and Greece to see the land that some Christian scholars call “the fifth gospel” for […]
This week we are wrapping up a seven week series that has focused on Disputing with God. Drawing on texts that span from the time of Abraham through to the time of Jesus we have seen a few different kinds of conflict ranging from patriarchs begging God to spare God’s people when they have disappointed […]
Throughout our summer series, we have exploring passages of disputing with God found in the Older Testament. Today we move into the Newer Testament, and well, the disputing continues. And this time it’s between a woman and Jesus. A Canaanite woman – a mother – disputes with Christ because she believes his mercy is also […]
While somehow I made it out of college without ever taking a course from the standard History Department, I took just about every church and Bible history class offered by the Religion Department. I could not get enough of those, and they have, to do this day, has a profound impact on my strategy for […]
The story about the prophet Jonah, if it is familiar, is probably familiar in broad strokes and mostly for the first half of the story. This is the part where God asks Jonah to do something Jonah isn’t too excited about doing – go to the people of Nineveh, a powerful, foreign city, and warn […]
How far should we go in advocating for others? Should we dispute with God as we pray for them? Scripture Watch the Livestream