Notice and Care

September 17, 2023
It’s Scottish pastor, Bible student, and professor William Barclay, again, who writes of the ability to choose to be loving.  We have this ability as a gift in Christ through…

Holy Help

September 10, 2023
Poor Jimmy Carter.  You just know there’ll be trouble when you get interviewed for Playboy magazine.  Why would anyone agree to that interview?  Back in 1976, Carter mentioned—confessed—to the reporters…

Turn

March 19, 2023
Jonah has had a transforming experience.  He had been living his faith his way.  Look where it got him.  God wasn’t interested in making Jonah sorry, though; God is interested…

Yes, I Will

March 12, 2023
I was astounded that Gepetto, Figaro, and Cleo could survive inside the whale.  It was awfully spacious in there, though.  If you were in church nursery about the time I…

To Those Who Receive Him

January 30, 2022
The Word of God comes to announce the Word is now fulfilled.  It seems like that would be sort of important, if you understood what was happening.  Those in the…

The Hem of His Garment

August 8, 2021
Jesus has just fed five thousand, and when the boat lands back on the other side of the Sea of Galilee, not far from Capernaum, in Gennesaret, another five thousand…

Grace Out of His Fullness

January 3, 2021
          Who will receive him?  Who will welcome him in?  Go from our worship gathering today with the expectation of this question on your lips and in your heart.  We…
Do you want to laugh?  Do you want to cry?  Maybe both?  If you have come to this Presbyterian church from another expression of Christian faith, you probably have figured…