Date: October 17, 2021
Bible Text: Acts 19:11–20 | Reverend Dr. William A. Evertsberg
Lisa Bond says “never waist a good pandemic.” I think what she means by that is don’t waste a crisis as an opportunity to rethink who you are and what God is calling you to be. So the staff has been doing that, trying to think ofDate: October 10, 2021
Bible Text: Acts 6:1–7 | Reverend Dr. William A. Evertsberg
Praise to the Lord of the frail and the ill Who heals their afflictions or carries them till, They leave this tired frame and to paradise fly. To never be sick and never to die. (Ministry of Music on October 10, 2021, Lord of the Small, DanDate: October 3, 2021
Bible Text: Acts 2:42–47 | Reverend Christine V. Hides
Bill Katie and I are in the middle of a new sermon series, using the book of acts as a blueprint for the birth of the early church and the (re)birth with the re in parentheses of the church as we emerge from the pandemic. In ActsDate: September 26, 2021
Bible Text: Acts 5:12–16 | Reverend Dr. William A. Evertsberg
This fall Katie, Christine, and I are talking about the birth and the (Re)Birth of the church. We’re doing this by looking at the book of The Acts of the Apostles. This Pandemic as severally stressed global congregations and Christendom. So we’re looking at what the churchDate: September 19, 2021
Bible Text: Acts 20:7–12 | Reverend Dr. William A. Evertsberg
One church consultant said that when this pandemic is over, your church is not returning to normal, it’s returning to reality. So much has impacted the church these last 18 months, it’s going to look differently once it is all over, if it’s ever over. So obviouslyDate: September 12, 2021
Bible Text: Acts 1:1-11 | Reverend Dr. William A. Evertsberg
Well as you can guess Katie, Christine, and I have spent these last 18 months thinking about what the church will look like when this pandemic is behind us, if it ever will be behind us. So we’re teaching this sermon series about the (Re)Birth of theDate: September 5, 2021
Bible Text: Psalm 23:6 | Reverend Dr. William A. Evertsberg
Stars resonate like a huge musical instrument. —Bill Chaplin, asteroseismologist “Astral Chorus” by Laura Grace Weldon How to Love the World, Poems of Gratitude and Hope Late for chores after dinner with friends, I walk up the darkening path, my mind knitting something warm out ofDate: August 29, 2021
Bible Text: Psalm 23:5 | Reverend Christine V. Hides
Next week Bill will preach the last sermon in our “How to Love the World Again” series which pairs poetry with each verse of Psalm 23. Today we are delighted to be blessing our children and youth as they return to school. Psalm 23 is very familiar—KenilworthDate: August 22, 2021
Bible Text: Psalm 23:4b | Reverend Christine V. Hides
Last week Katie took us on a hike through the Valley of Shadows in our verse by verse journey through Psalm 23 which Bill, Katie and I pair with poetry and reflections from the recent book How to Love the World: Poems of Gratitude and Hope. TodayDate: August 15, 2021
Bible Text: Psalm 23:4a | Reverend Dr. Katie Snipes Lancaster
Psalm 23 by Robert Alter The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want. In grass meadows He makes me lie down, by quiet waters guides me. My life he brings back. He leads me on pathways of justice for his name’s sake. Though I walk in