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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

Hello, Words, smells, sounds and pictures can cause us to stop in our tracks. The picture above is one such picture. As I was doing research for last week’s sermon, I found it. I stopped immediately. I read the accompanying article. I was wiped out for the remainder of the afternoon. The article is on