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Christ is Risen! SO now what do we do? Easter is over, and we have moved on to the “shelter in place” of the week. But just because we have headed back into our new normal everyday lives, does not mean that we should be any less excited or passionate about the fact that Christ […]

Which day is today? No, don’t look at the calendar. Would you have known it? Well, I get mixed up these days. What did we have for breakfast? Oatmeal? Ok, that means it has to be a weekday. Or a Sunday. We never have time for a fancy breakfast on Sundays. Did the kids have

Cast all your anxiety on God, who cares for you.  1 Peter 5:7 Dear Church, Last week I wrote about how encouraged I was by the industrious little birds building their nest by our back door.  Well, you can imagine my dismay when I saw a big blue jay attacking that very nest!  I saw

Rejoice with us! Though we can’t all be together for Easter, we are still celebrating the resurrection of Christ with a worship service, sermon and song. Today’s worship service was recorded by conference call, and other parts were recorded at different times and places.  Please see our bulletin if you’d like to follow along and participate.   Full Worship

Good Friday Service Video We invite you to join us in viewing the video for our Good Friday Service – Mary’s Reflections at the Stations of the Cross.  We hope you find it moving and inspiring: Click here for a bulletin for the service

The Cross. It was an instrument of torture, a cruel form of death reserved for rebels, robbers, and criminals of various kinds. So cruel and painful was the practice that Roman law forbade its use on any Roman citizen. Nails were driven through the hands and feet and, more often than not, the person being

Dear siblings in Christ, here is the major thing. Our churches are closed. For good reasons, obviously. I would have never thought that I once in my life had to beg people to stay at home – even during Holy Week. The (church-)world has turned upside down. For the last 3 weeks Sunday mornings have

25 “Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink, or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothing? 26 Look at the birds of the air; they neither sow nor reap nor gather

Welcome to our Palm Sunday service! We might be sheltering in place, but we’re still celebrating Palm Sunday during this ongoing Easter season. Today’s worship service includes a performance of Walt Wangerin’s “Cry of the Whole Congregation,”  a drama we perform every third year on Palm Sunday.  Due to COVID-19 social distancing restrictions, the drama portion