How to Love the World: A Psalm of Gratitude and Hope by Rev. Dr. Katie Snipes Lancaster We spent the last two summer months preaching the Psalms, and now we will take a deep dive into the most beloved of all—Psalm 23. Why is the ancient poetry of Psalm 23 resonant, even today, thousands of [...]
The Reverend Christine V. Hides Holy God, Sower of Abundant Grace, The heavens declare your glory. The earth reveals your handiwork. Day after day and night after night, we worship you, O God. Your ways are true, your commandments enlightening, your love endures forever. On this summer day we come together, grateful [...]
The Reverend Dr. William A. Evertsberg Generous God, in whom there is no variation nor shadow of change, you have filled our hearts and lives with so many lavish gifts, we hardly know where to begin with our catalogue of thanksgivings, or where to end. We give you thanks for summer’s “luminous [...]
The Reverend Dr. Katie Snipes Lancaster O Shelter and Shield, O Shepherd and Guide, your word is a lamp to our feet, your love, a light to our path.Be with us here.As the night watch resolves, and day break brings a return to community and friendship, we come to this wide open place, so [...]
The Reverend Christine V. Hides Holy God, Gracious Parent of us all,Your presence is with us all of our daysAnd your love surrounds us in every tender moment. We ask your blessing this day for all fathers, grantthem joy and togetherness, grace and wholeness. And in those parent-childrelationships where there is hurt and disappointment, we [...]
The Reverend Dr. Katie Snipes Lancaster God, you are the great silence before whom all words fail. But even the words that fail need to be spoken and so we come to you in prayer. We seek you. We trust you. We long for you. So meet us here in what is familiar and [...]
The Reverend Dr. Katie Snipes Lancaster God, we meet you embodied: wherever we are, you meet us with these hands, these feet, this breath, this body, our very selves bound up in your presence. And so we seek a blessing today for these hands, these feet, this breath, this body, that within [...]
The Reverend Dr. Katie Snipes Lancaster Whether under this week’s chilly storm-swept skies, or out in the sun-baked scent of spring, it seems as if the very earth sings your praise, and is calling forth your spirit. So awaken within us, O God. Kindle within us an uninterrupted peace. Let the “gravity [...]
Bill shares good news from the updated CDC guidelines and the reopening team and adds that Summer Worship hours begin June 6, 8:30 a.m. in the Memorial Garden and 10 a.m. in the Sanctuary. William A. Evertsberg I’m here just before Memorial Day with some promising updates on masks and worship that [...]
God, giver of life and author of compassion, we celebrate your gift of love that nurtures in ways that are tender and courageous, bold and kind, mysterious and enduring.Today we pause to recognize the ways Christ’s abiding love is embodied in this congregation: In those who knit care into every stitch of the prayer blankets, in the taste [...]