Pastor’s Blog

During a time of great uncertainty with the COVID-19 pandemic, with fear and anxiety creeping at the door, the beauty of Christianity is that we always have love, hope, and joy deeper than any negative circumstance. There is a verse

So, when did this become real to you?  When the NBA ended the regular season?  Was it the delay in opening day for major league baseball?  The closing of Disney World? For me, it was when March Madness was called

We will gather at 3:00 p.m. this Sunday afternoon, March 15, to remember and celebrate a remarkable life because we have lost a great friend.  Someone very important will be missing.  With the passing of Randy Edwards into the life

We read in the Bible about an experience that happened long ago to a man named Saul.  Saul had set out on a journey to the city of Damascus.  He started as one kind of person, and ended up as

Every once in a while, I think about Frieda Muscatell and Larry Snodgrass, two friends of mine who were passengers on US Airways Flight 1549, “the miracle on the Hudson.”  If you haven’t seen the movie about it, ‘Sully’, you

One of the characteristics of the human condition is that we’re exhilarated and active when things are going well, but we’re often paralyzed with depression when they are not.  There’s an old folk song that begins, “Sometimes I’m up, and

John Ames, a 76-year-old Congregational minister stated in a recent issue of The Christian Century that he kept his old sermons in boxes in the attic.  “Pretty nearly my whole life’s work is in those boxes,” he said.  “I’m a little

It will be a historic and far-reaching moment this Sunday afternoon when our architect, Gray Hudson, presents a proposed master site plan to the Leadership Team, detailing the short-term and long-range uses of our 16-acre tract of land for the

“Now faith is being sure of what we hope for and certain of what we do not see.”  -Hebrews 11:1, NIV “No, I don’t believe in Mr. McBeevee.  But I do believe in Opie.”  -Andy Taylor, the Andy Griffith Show,

Has it ever happened to you?  Have you ever stood there at the baggage carousel, watching the luggage pop out, piece by piece from that little window, but never yours?  Why is it, when any chance that your suitcase is ever